Featured Artists

CHENG Tsung-lung

Artistic Director / Choreographer

From street hawker selling slippers to internationally recognized choreographer, CHENG Tsung-lung succeeded LIN Hwai-min as Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan starting in 2020. CHENG is best known for works inspired by the street life and folk religion that was part of his upbringing in the oldest commercial district of Taipei. His recent creations include 13 Tongues (2016), which received raving reviews from  France, Germany, the UK, and China; Lunar Halo (2019) is set to music by Sigur Rós and hailed widely as a work of “fierce beauty”; Sounding Light (2020) reflects on the relationship between human and nature during the COVID-19 pandemic period and is praised as a “beautifully crafted work, bearing repeated viewings”; Send In A Cloud (2022) displays in shifting colors a panorama of dancers’ personal life journeys; and WAVES (2023), a collaboration with Japanese media artist Daito MANABE, explores societal and individual facets affected by the rapid progress of technological advancements.

CHENG has been a fixture of Routledge’s respected annual survey of dance practitioners, Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (2020), alongside the likes of William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter, and leaders in the form.