Bulletin No. 2, 2011

CUHK Launches I • CARE Programme  23  explore the world when you’re young. We think too much. We calculate too much.’ Over the past three decades or so, Cloud Gate has climbed every mountain and scaled numerous new heights. He insists that art and life should be integrated, and every citizen should have the right to appreciate art and participate in it. He led his troupe to visit every suburban corner of Taiwan, bringing dance performances free to a multitude of audiences including villagers, peasants and the aborigines, moving them by a sublime sense of the humanities and virtues demonstrated in the dances. With utmost enthusiasm, Lin recounted what he experienced, often accentuated with gestures of a dancer’s grace. His eyes lit up with passion, the passion of urging young students to concern themselves with society and the world. He makes light of the challenges which have included a fatigue-induced breakdown in 1977, a debt- induced hiatus in 1988, and losing a rehearsal studio to fire in 2008. Towards the end of his lecture, Mr. Lin reaffirmed us that in this age when change is the only constant, something does remain unchanged, and that includes love for people, love for the land, the pursuit of beauty. There are still people needing help, and so much injustice and unfairness in the world—things that can do with a hand from the young. ‘Between cradle and grave, what do you want to achieve? Can you still dream?’