"A day without seeing each other feels like three autumns. Now, three autumns have actually passed, and it feels like it's been a lifetime," Lin says.

He recalls that, from 2009 to 2019, Cloud Gate performed 10 times at the NCPA, almost every year, which was a very pleasant experience for him.

"Because of the frequency of these performances, we could feel something special. It's almost like that we were growing alongside the audience members born in the 1980s or 1990s. I could feel that they were getting more mature," Lin adds.

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