"No company in the world dances like Cloud Gate. It presents a distinct and mature Chinese choreographic language. The importance of this evolution in Asian dance is no less profound than the impact of Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt on European classical ballet."

DANCE EUROPE

"The Best of the Best"

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD,
on Cloud Gate’s Performance at the Olympic Arts Festival, 2000

"International dance festival saved by Formosa!"

LE FIGARO

"Fascinating . . . combining modern dance techniques with traditional Peking opera movement . . . igniting a unique new culture."

TIME MAGAZINE

"Lin Hwai-min has succeeded brilliantly in fusing dance techniques and theatrical concepts from the East and the West."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Asia's leading contemporary dance theatre"

THE TIMES, London

"An extraordinarily exciting, brutishly physical contemporary dance company."

SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

"There are possibly only a handful of modern dance companies that, on a good day, can achieve similar heights as the twenty-two dancers from Taiwan."

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

"[Cloud Gate Dance Theatre] is not only on a par with the best modern dance companies of the Old World and the New, but perhaps even beyond."

BALLET INTERNATIONAL

"The best dance group of this year's Spoleto Festival, or of any other year was the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre."

SUN HERALD, Melbourne

"Lin Hwai-min's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre is the most important dance company in the Chinese cultural circle."

MING PAO DAILY NEWS, Hong Kong

"Dancers of the Cloud Gate company possess a control and articulation that verge on the superhuman ...These are performers who can make stillness every bit as eloquent as animation."

CHICAGO SUN TIMES

"What dancers! Their assurance, fluidity and discipline are simply breathtaking. The mixture of traditional Asian gesture, martial arts-inspired leaps, kicks and slaps and the audible breath of the dancers creates a mesmerizing language before our eyes."

DURHAM NEWS & OBSERVER

"Cloud Gate leaves you sitting breathlessly on the edge of your chair."

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

"This company gets to you. In New York, . . . as well as in Herbst, the audience gave the company a rousing standing ovation."

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"Judged by the most critical eye of the dance world in the West, the most surprising miracle is its technical achievement."

BALLET INFO, Berlin

"So touching that one can not help crying…tears of joy – one's heart nearly explodes from such a great theatrical experience."

AFTENPOFTEN, Oslo

"One of the finest dance companies in the world."

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Canada

"Lin Hwai-min blends the East and the West into a third world of his own."

DER TAGESSPIEGEL, Berlin

"Wholly irresistible!"

DANCE NEWS, New York