v Tissues a Must at Chang Weeper
'18 Springs', the stage adapation of Eileen Chang's novel is now running at Beijing's Capital Theatre. |
v A Classic Interpreted through Dance
Dream of Red Mansions, a Chinese classic literary novel, has been adapted many times into various artistic forms. And this time, a dance drama becomes another artistic medium to display this ancient Chinese classic. |
v Hong Kong Ballet Tells An Ancient Tale
Three goodwill performances of the full-length ballet Legend of the Great Archer by the Hong Kong Ballet will be staged at Beijing's Poly Theater from January 3 to 5. |
v The Sixth Shanghai Arts Festival Opens
Economic booming Shanghai is not just about making money. The port city enters a thriving season of arts and culture when the Sixth Shanghai Arts Festival opens today and runs until November 18. |
v Chinese Ballerinas Pirouette for Sylvia
The National Ballet of China has presented new productions of varying styles, and all have received excellent reviews, from The Red Detachment of Women to Yellow River, from the Fountain of Tears to Coppelia, from Raise the Red Lanterns to the Rite of Spring. The 2004/05 season will see Sylvia, a co-operation with the Opera de Paris. |
v Opera Drifts Too Deeply in Deep End of Chinese Market
Over the past years, few operas have appeared on the domestic stage. Of the handful of operas that have been staged, western classics have taken up a large proportion of time. The situation has made opera's position in China somewhat awkward. |
v Puppets Well Strung For "Swan Lake" Performance
China Puppet Art Troupe have now adapted Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" into a puppet performance, to be played from August 11th to15th at the Poly Theatre.
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v Poetic Opera in Nature
By the beginning of July, Zhang Yimou¡¯s environmental opera, Sister Liu, had been staged more than 100 times in the beautiful outdoors of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. |
v National Theatre Presents 'Toilet' Humor in Beijing
'Toilet', a new black comedy by celebrated theatre director Lin Zhaohua is being performed at the Tianqiao Theatre in downtown Beijing from June 29th to July 11th. |
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Tissues a Must at Chang Weeper
Director: Liu Chi