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Christos Papadopoulos: My Fierce Ignorant Step
Ten dancers build a collective pulse from breath, sound and rhythm in Christos Papadopoulos’ new work.
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A garden, a park, a river walk and places to look a little closer.
A garden, a park, a river walk and places to look a little closer. Choose a starting point from our growing Shanghai selection, then follow its official sources to plan your visit.
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The Pearl Pagoda: Wuxi Xi Opera
A treasured pagoda and a humiliating family visit set the story in motion in Wuxi’s Xi opera classic.
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Brecht’s First Play
Beijing Repertory Theater and Ireland’s Dead Centre revisit Brecht’s Baal through live theatre and real-time video.
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Tianchan Yifu Peking Opera Concert
Senior Peking opera performers gather for a vocal programme marking Tianchan’s anniversary season.
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Yan Zhenqing
The strokes and changing ink of Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew become the structure of a dance drama.
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An Everlasting Life
A Yue opera family confronts ambition, old wounds and forgiveness in an adaptation of Ai Wei’s novella.
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Ola Maciejewska: Loïe Fuller, Research
Ola Maciejewska revisits Loïe Fuller’s legacy through an experimental study of movement, image and illusion.
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Garden: Dance Theatre
A reworking of R.U.R. asks what an artificial being might feel when an unexpected embrace changes its world.
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The Voyage of Life
Chang Hongji directs and performs a dance journey between a real world and an AI-built virtual realm.
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Robyn Orlin: We Wear Our Wheels with Pride
Dance, song and vivid costume pay tribute to South Africa’s rickshaw pullers in Robyn Orlin’s production.
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The Assassins
Nie Yinniang’s story becomes a meeting of Peking opera, Kunqu and contemporary physical theatre.
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Zhan Hongzhou: Peking Opera
Mu Guiying takes command in a revival of the Guan-school warrior-role classic.
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As If True
Performers, AI agents and audience choices shape an immersive production inspired by The Classic of Mountains and Seas.
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Nacera Belaza: La Nuée
Seven performers draw standing spectators around a close-range dance shaped by circles, sound and light.
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Beyond Bonds
Ballroom dance leaves the competition floor for a stage story about growing up and making choices.
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The Family: Kunqu Opera
Ba Jin’s novel and the writer’s own life interweave in a Kunqu production about a family under pressure.
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Intimate Relations
Ballroom movement and Argentine tango become a physical study of attraction, dependence and separation.
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The Red Clouds over the Horizon
Shanghai Dance Theatre revisits its women-centred Long March dance drama with a new generation of performers.
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Sara Baras: Vuela
Sara Baras’s flamenco production pays tribute to Paco de Lucía through fourteen pieces.
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Dream of Autumn
Jon Fosse’s cemetery reunion becomes a restrained stage meditation on time, grief and the longing for love.
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Vakhtangov Theatre: Amadeus
Salieri’s jealousy of Mozart drives a stage production combining Peter Shaffer’s play with musical and historical material.
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Sindibad
Two boys living through war use the voyages of Sinbad to imagine hope beyond their immediate surroundings.
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Fu Hao: Henan Opera
Archaeological finds and oracle-bone records inspire a Yu opera about the Shang-dynasty figure Fu Hao.
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Hamlet: Beijing People’s Art Theatre
Shakespeare’s tragedy receives a contemporary Chinese staging with Zheng Yunlong in the cast.