Featured Artists

LIN Hwai-min

Founder & Choreographer

LIN Hwai-min founded Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in 1973 and has led the company to international prominence through his acclaimed choreographic works. Among numerous awards and honors he has received are Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, the John D. Rockefeller Award (New York), the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (France), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Movimentos Dance Festival (Germany). He has also been celebrated by TIME Magazine as one of Asia's Heroes. At the end of 2019, LIN retired from his position as the artistic director of Cloud Gate.