Nov 7. 我最想訪問的人—林懷民

這個禮拜就請各位想想期中的報告，拜訪一位你最想訪問的人，想想看你想拜訪誰?為什麼想訪問他?接著就介紹他及他的資料讓大家知道。你想訪問的人必須讓你產生想訪問他的熱望，建立大家在這方面的體驗與經驗，對象必須是大家熟知的所謂名人，而且必須是親自訪問到。

This week I am going to talk about the person that I wanted to interview. Given a brief review of this person and express why I want to interview this person.

As soon as I heard this homework, the very only person I can think of is the dancer —Lin Whi-Ming(林懷民) who established Cloud-gate in 1973. Since I have always been someone who doesn’t get in craze of anyone or anything, it’s hard for me to think of anyone else I wanted to meet in person so badly.
Mr. Lin is the art conductor of Cloud-gate – who got pretty famous recent years because his art pieces and performances are being recommended around the world. Rewarded by the國際芭蕾雜誌 as the年度人物, by歐洲舞蹈雜誌 as the 二十世紀編舞名家, and got on 2005年亞洲英雄榜in the America Magazine Times. The circuit performance has made Cloud Gate famous as well as Lin, but all these did not change Lin as the same boy he used to be whom love dancing so much.

The first time ever for Mr. Lin to get to approached to dancing was the movie “The Red Shoes”, he soon fall in love with it and asked his family and friends to watch it with him over and over again. In the movie, the dancer in red shoe couldn’t stop dancing, one asked her: “what is your life for? Living?” “No, dancing!” the girl answered. These scenes grab Lin’s heart and fall deeply in love with dancing. Soon his brother found all the slippers in his house all worn out because Lin had worn them as dancing shoes and dance and dance all day long. And that was the year which he got his very own dancing shoes made by his mother.
Lin’s got his popularity in a young age as a writer, but after he graduated from university in majoring journalism, he went to study in the US and that’s when he started learning modern dance.
Starting in a small studio, Mr. Lin established Cloud Gate in Taiwan at the age of 26, year 1973. He worked hard in creating new and remixes of traditional elements into the art, and eventually forms a new style of his own. Moreover, after he got his approval in the public, he did not stop in the same style of creating new arts, instead, he moved onto trying new materials and formulas into his dancing art work, such as calligraphy and Ti-chi, and that has definitely brought a whole new wonder and enjoyment to us all.
Lin impress me first by his art work, later got me interested into knowing more about him. One important thing is, it seems to be odd to be a dancer in this society, we questioned about how anyone could earn a living by dancing. Especially, it’s rare for man to become dancer, since I was little; I never had a boy in my dance studio. How did Lin leave all the traditional thinking logic behind and know exactly what he wanted and went for it? I believe it must have been a great fight and struggle for Lin or for anyone to break the unspoken rule of what we can’t do, and actually pursue it as a dream of life.
As I read he biography, I asked myself: is it that I am lack of the power and motive to pursue my dream or even worse, that I don’t even know what I wanted for life? How will I answer the same question asked to the dancer in red shoes:
“what is your life for?”. (此生為何而來?)
Am I able to answer that? I thought…….
This is the thing I wish to know about Lin, how did he search for his live time devotion? What can we do to get the motive to seize our chance for dreams to come true?