● Approx. 165mins incl. 1 interval of 20 mins.
● 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
● 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
● Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
● For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
Legend Lin Dance Theatre "Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent"
Anthem to the Fading Flowers was created by Lin Lee-Chen, the artistic director of Legend Lin Dance Theatre, in 2000. Over the past two decades, Legend Lin Dance Theatre has trained the bodies of the dancers following the six-word motto, "tranquility, stability, release, calmness, slowness, strength." Its works have toured the world and have moved countless audiences.
It is a ritual, so it is solemn.
It is a ritual, so complete devotion is needed to see the clarity of your mind.
It is a ritual, so being sincere and genuine are indispensable to touch the human heart.
Anthem to the Fading Flowers adopts spring, summer, autumn, and winter as its structure, and uses insects, birds, flowers, and trees as metaphors, finally leading the audience into a realm where man, nature, and earth are integrated.
Artist Introduction
LIN Lee-Chen,
Artistic Director and Choreographer of Legend Lin Dance Theatre
LIN Lee-chen, artistic director of Legend Lin Dance Theatre, has long emerged in the oriental aesthetics and thus presents glamorous visual expression and original dancing vocabularies. Such slow and ethereal aesthetics is eventually realized in her trilogy of “Heaven, Earth and Human Beings”: Miroirs de vie, Anthem to the Fading Flowers, and Song of Pensive Beholding.
LIN attracted attention among the artistic circle already during the 1970s as a dance teacher and choreographer at Chang-an girls’ Junior High School, where her dance productions - some involving as many as hundred performers- garnered national awards for five consecutive years and had an enormous influence on dance and theater productions in Taiwan.
But it was her choreography and performance of Don’t Forget Your Umbrella in 1978, her first solo production, that gained LIN Lee-Chen widespread attention and earned her the reputation of being “An astonishing new talent in Taiwanese performance arts.”
Her subsequent dance pieces and choreographic work on stage and screen only enhanced her reputation. Surprisingly, at the very height of her reputation, she retired from work in order to devote herself fully to her family. However, concerned about the rapid and dramatic decline of Taiwan’s traditional culture and arts in the face of a growing invasion of Western cultural forms, LIN Lee-Chen felt compelled to return to the stage as a choreographer and director of her own company.
With the encouragement and support of many like-minded colleagues and kindred souls, she founded the Legend Lin Dance Theatre with the goal of revitalizing and reaffirming Taiwanese culture and identity. Miroirs de Vie and Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, the first fruits of this new mission, echo aspects of traditional Taiwanese rites and celebrate our relationship to the earth and nature’s own ritual cycles.
Following Miroirs de Vie and Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, LIN Lee-Chen presents the final work of the series, Song of Pensive Beholding, in 2009, the result of nine years of germination. This long-awaited piece completes the trilogy of LIN’s tribute to Heaven, Earth, and Man. In Miroirs de Vie, she explores the beauty and sadness of all things and all beings, seen and unseen; in Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, LIN portrays the connection between man and the spirit of nature; and in Song of Pensive Beholding, the choreographer weaves her original tribal myth with a compassionate vision, reflecting on the harm done to our environment and ourselves by human avarice. The interconnectedness of man, the spirits, and the gods permeates all of her work. In LIN's world, all beings are co-existent, affecting one another.In 2017, with The Eternal Tides, LIN’s original movement vocabulary and its unique meditative quality will once again bring audience to the inner spirit of earth.
Creative Team
Artistic Director & Choreographer｜ LIN Lee-chen
Visual Concept｜LIN Lee-chen
Lightning｜CHENG Kuo-yang
Prop Design｜CHANG Wang, CHEN Nien-chou
Costume Design｜Tim YIP
Composer｜CHUNG Yiu-kwong
Chinese Calligraphy｜CHANG Wang
Visual Design｜CHEN Tien-mou
Graphic Design｜Joe FANG
Music Consultant｜LIN Hui-kuan、HUANG Chen-ming
Copywriter｜CHENG Chieh-wen
Audio description｜ WU Yi-ying
Performers
Rehearsal Master｜TSAY Bi-jue
Associate Rehearsal Master｜CHENG Chieh-wen
Female Dancers｜WU Ming-ching, WANG Chien-yi, CHENG Yu-shu, CHEN Yi-yi, HUANG Yu-wen, FENG Kai-lun, HO Hsin, LEE Wan-Ling, LIN Yu-hsuan,
FANG Shih-yu
Male Dancers｜CHEN Chi-shun, HUANG Yao-ting, WANG Wei-fan, LI Gen-Ang, LEE Chung-hei, HUANG YAN-jhih, LIN Hsiang, WU Jhih-hong, JHANG Jhe-yu, YANG Sheng-po
Drum｜HO Yi-Ming
Bamboo Flute｜LU Yu-wen
Pipa｜LIN Hui-kuan, LIU Jia-ying, CHANG Hui-wen, LIN YU-Hsuan, Zhou YI-ting, LIN Yu-Shan
Technical Team
Technical Director｜CHENG Kuo-yang
Stage Manager｜CHENG Tzu-wei
Master Electrician｜CHEN, Fei-bi
Sound Engineer｜CHEN Chih-feng, Chieh Yun Corp.
Photography｜CHIN Cheng-tsai, CHEN Tien-mou
Cinematographer｜CHEN Tien-mou, YANG Yu-cheng
Administrative Team
Producer｜CHEN Nien-chou
Administrative Consultant｜LIAO Yo-jen
Administrative Advisor｜CHANG Chia-chi
Executive Secretary｜HO Yi-Ming
Executive Producer｜WU Min-fang
Marketing & PR｜CHANG, Anna
Major Sponsor
Legend Lin Dance Theatre "Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent"
Anthem to the Fading Flowers was created by Lin Lee-Chen, the artistic director of Legend Lin Dance Theatre, in 2000. Over the past two decades, Legend Lin Dance Theatre has trained the bodies of the dancers following the six-word motto, "tranquility, stability, release, calmness, slowness, strength." Its works have toured the world and have moved countless audiences.
It is a ritual, so it is solemn.
It is a ritual, so complete devotion is needed to see the clarity of your mind.
It is a ritual, so being sincere and genuine are indispensable to touch the human heart.
Anthem to the Fading Flowers adopts spring, summer, autumn, and winter as its structure, and uses insects, birds, flowers, and trees as metaphors, finally leading the audience into a realm where man, nature, and earth are integrated.
Artist Introduction
LIN Lee-Chen,
Artistic Director and Choreographer of Legend Lin Dance Theatre
LIN Lee-chen, artistic director of Legend Lin Dance Theatre, has long emerged in the oriental aesthetics and thus presents glamorous visual expression and original dancing vocabularies. Such slow and ethereal aesthetics is eventually realized in her trilogy of “Heaven, Earth and Human Beings”: Miroirs de vie, Anthem to the Fading Flowers, and Song of Pensive Beholding.
LIN attracted attention among the artistic circle already during the 1970s as a dance teacher and choreographer at Chang-an girls’ Junior High School, where her dance productions - some involving as many as hundred performers- garnered national awards for five consecutive years and had an enormous influence on dance and theater productions in Taiwan.
But it was her choreography and performance of Don’t Forget Your Umbrella in 1978, her first solo production, that gained LIN Lee-Chen widespread attention and earned her the reputation of being “An astonishing new talent in Taiwanese performance arts.”
Her subsequent dance pieces and choreographic work on stage and screen only enhanced her reputation. Surprisingly, at the very height of her reputation, she retired from work in order to devote herself fully to her family. However, concerned about the rapid and dramatic decline of Taiwan’s traditional culture and arts in the face of a growing invasion of Western cultural forms, LIN Lee-Chen felt compelled to return to the stage as a choreographer and director of her own company.
With the encouragement and support of many like-minded colleagues and kindred souls, she founded the Legend Lin Dance Theatre with the goal of revitalizing and reaffirming Taiwanese culture and identity. Miroirs de Vie and Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, the first fruits of this new mission, echo aspects of traditional Taiwanese rites and celebrate our relationship to the earth and nature’s own ritual cycles.
Following Miroirs de Vie and Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, LIN Lee-Chen presents the final work of the series, Song of Pensive Beholding, in 2009, the result of nine years of germination. This long-awaited piece completes the trilogy of LIN’s tribute to Heaven, Earth, and Man. In Miroirs de Vie, she explores the beauty and sadness of all things and all beings, seen and unseen; in Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, LIN portrays the connection between man and the spirit of nature; and in Song of Pensive Beholding, the choreographer weaves her original tribal myth with a compassionate vision, reflecting on the harm done to our environment and ourselves by human avarice. The interconnectedness of man, the spirits, and the gods permeates all of her work. In LIN's world, all beings are co-existent, affecting one another.In 2017, with The Eternal Tides, LIN’s original movement vocabulary and its unique meditative quality will once again bring audience to the inner spirit of earth.
Creative Team
Artistic Director & Choreographer｜ LIN Lee-chen
Visual Concept｜LIN Lee-chen
Lightning｜CHENG Kuo-yang
Prop Design｜CHANG Wang, CHEN Nien-chou
Costume Design｜Tim YIP
Composer｜CHUNG Yiu-kwong
Chinese Calligraphy｜CHANG Wang
Visual Design｜CHEN Tien-mou
Graphic Design｜Joe FANG
Music Consultant｜LIN Hui-kuan、HUANG Chen-ming
Copywriter｜CHENG Chieh-wen
Audio description｜ WU Yi-ying
Performers
Rehearsal Master｜TSAY Bi-jue
Associate Rehearsal Master｜CHENG Chieh-wen
Female Dancers｜WU Ming-ching, WANG Chien-yi, CHENG Yu-shu, CHEN Yi-yi, HUANG Yu-wen, FENG Kai-lun, HO Hsin, LEE Wan-Ling, LIN Yu-hsuan,
FANG Shih-yu
Male Dancers｜CHEN Chi-shun, HUANG Yao-ting, WANG Wei-fan, LI Gen-Ang, LEE Chung-hei, HUANG YAN-jhih, LIN Hsiang, WU Jhih-hong, JHANG Jhe-yu, YANG Sheng-po
Drum｜HO Yi-Ming
Bamboo Flute｜LU Yu-wen
Pipa｜LIN Hui-kuan, LIU Jia-ying, CHANG Hui-wen, LIN YU-Hsuan, Zhou YI-ting, LIN Yu-Shan
Technical Team
Technical Director｜CHENG Kuo-yang
Stage Manager｜CHENG Tzu-wei
Master Electrician｜CHEN, Fei-bi
Sound Engineer｜CHEN Chih-feng, Chieh Yun Corp.
Photography｜CHIN Cheng-tsai, CHEN Tien-mou
Cinematographer｜CHEN Tien-mou, YANG Yu-cheng
Administrative Team
Producer｜CHEN Nien-chou
Administrative Consultant｜LIAO Yo-jen
Administrative Advisor｜CHANG Chia-chi
Executive Secretary｜HO Yi-Ming
Executive Producer｜WU Min-fang
Marketing & PR｜CHANG, Anna
Major Sponsor
● Approx. 165mins incl. 1 interval of 20 mins.
● 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
● 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
● Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
● For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
