Cursive II is a masterpiece by Lin-Hwai-min, choreographer of the highly acclaimed Moon Water & Bamboo Dream. Inspired by the aestethics of Chinese calligraphy, this work is both commanding & seductive. The superb Cloud Gate dancers, trained in meditation, Chi-Kung & martial arts, touch you with original movement, fierce as striking thunder or soft as flowing ink on rice paper. The complexity of energy is further enhanced by the music of John Cage, while the blown-up images of ice crackles from Sung porcelain shimmer with delicate beauty. This production, exquisitely filmed by dance expert Ross Mac Gibbon, captures the meditative aura of the dance. It excites. It mesmerizes. It is spell-binding.