He founded Cloud Gate the next year, turning that aesthetic rush and thirst for freedom into dance, and hastening the birth of a movement of artistic and literary creativity in Taiwan.
隔年（1973 年），林懷民就創辦了「雲門舞集」，把那份對美感的悸動與對自由的渴盼化為舞作，進而催生了台灣的藝文創作運動。