Zheng Zonglong's "Mao Moon" performance photo.

(Photo by Liu Zhenxiang, courtesy of Cloud Gate)

[Reporter Ling Meixue/Taipei Report] Cloud Gate Dance Theater, which is also on a 5-week 6-city tour in the United States, has once again come to the world to show the strength of Taiwan's cultural strength. The "World Ballet Day" will debut next week. , This year, Cloud Gate Dance Group was invited to participate again, broadcasting Cloud Gate's unique physical training method across the East and West to the world, allowing dance fans around the world to experience Cloud Gate's solid and diverse body language.

Cloud Gate was once again invited to the largest "World Ballet Day" in history, and the content of Tai Chi training in the Green Theater will be released for the first time.

(Provided by Cloud Gate)

The 9th "World Ballet Day" was launched by the internationally renowned Royal Ballet in 2014. It connects world-renowned dance companies and broadcasts it on YouTube and Facebook, attracting more than one million dance fans to watch online every year.

Major dance troupes will seldom see behind-the-scenes scenes, including warm-up morning classes, live training, performance rehearsal, and behind-the-scenes life, etc., allowing the audience to have a glimpse of the ten years of work under the stage.

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"World Ballet Day" invited Cloud Gate for the first time last year. It is the only invited team from Taiwan. During the 37 minutes of the broadcast, Cloud Gate dancers practiced breathing, martial arts and Tai Chi. So far, they have attracted people from the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe and other regions. The audience watched it, accumulating more than 10,000 people to appreciate it.

Cloud Gate Dance Group said that the daily routine of Cloud Gate dancers is to receive physical training from the East and the West, including qigong, martial arts, modern dance and ballet. The dance troupe that is on tour in the United States also holds master classes locally, allowing American University dance students to experience Cloud Gate. The daily life of a dancer, Deborah Root, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, said after watching the Cloud Gate performance, "The artistry of "Thirteen Tones" and the uniqueness of the dancers' body language make it hard to imagine what to do It's here." Some viewers believed that "Taiwan can be felt from the dancer's body."

This year, he was invited to participate in the "World Ballet Day" twice. Cloud Gate said that he will show about 80 minutes of daily basic training. For the first time, he will disclose the Taiji Daoyin and Neijiaquan martial arts taught by Cloud Gate teachers Li Guowei and Chen Junzhang respectively.

After the training content, the film will also show artistic director Zheng Zonglong leading dancers at the Cloud Gate Green Theater, through rehearsal of the US tour works "Thirteen Tones", "Mao Yueyue" and the latest dance work "Xia". The appearance of the dance work and the polishing process behind the scenes.

This year, 60 performance groups from 6 continents around the world will respond to "World Ballet Day". The organizer will send an invitation to audiences around the world. With the short videos of dancing or twisting filmed by the audience, hashtag "#worldballetday" to have fun online together Dancing and sharing with the world.

The Cloud Gate film will premiere on Cloud Gate's official Facebook page at 9:00 pm on November 2, Taiwan time, and more 2022 World Ballet Day films can be found on the official website (www.worldballetday.com).

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