Those attending the public lecture of Lin Hwai-min, founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater, this Sunday in Guangzhou will be inspired by the dancer and choreographer's 30-year journey across Taiwan to spread the art of modern dance.

Cloud Gate was the first modern dance theater in the Chinese-language world. Cloud Gate will stage its classic Nine Songs in Guangzhou in late March and Lin will share how he developed ancient poems into a beautiful contemporary ritual.

Lin was recently the recipient of the 2013 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in modern dance and is the first awardee not based in the US or Europe.

3 pm-5 pm, March 3. Lecture Hall No 1, Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, 213 Wenming Lu, Yuexiu district, Guangzhou. 020-8383-0676.

Cloud Gate Dance, the company founded by choreographer Lin Hwai-min, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an Asian tour of a dance adapted from the ancient poem Nine Songs. The choreography was inspired by traditional sacrificial rituals, and the performance has incorporated aboriginal percussion and dance.

7:15 pm, March 14-16. Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai. 021-6854-1234.

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