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Holiday Aut with Qi Xi
A lost suitcase sends a solo traveller into comic conversations with strangers, memories and herself.
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A good reason to go out
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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Brigel Gjoka and XieXin Dance Theatre: When Mountains Cry
Arms and hands form a recurring language in a collaboration between Brigel Gjoka and XieXin Dance Theatre.
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Akram Khan Company: Thikra, Night of Remembering
An all-women ensemble connects Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance in a work about memory and inheritance.
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Schaubühne: The Marriage of Maria Braun
Thomas Ostermeier turns Fassbinder’s film into theatre through one woman’s life in post-war West Germany.
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Robert Wilson: Moby Dick
Melville’s white whale becomes music theatre through Robert Wilson’s visual staging and Anna Calvi’s score.
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The Moonlit Spring: Yue Opera
A Yue opera about Fan Zhongyan’s exile puts public duty, corruption and moral conviction into conflict.
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Rachid Ouramdane: Contre-Nature
Ten dancers bring aerial movement and close physical contact to a work about memory and absence.
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Shudao
Sichuan’s historic routes inspire a dance drama linking mountain passes, waterworks and cultural memory.
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The Bolshoi Ballet Gala
Excerpts from Swan Lake, Spartacus and other classical ballets form a concentrated Bolshoi programme.
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Mr. Painted Hairnet: Min Opera
A late-Ming scholar’s refusal to abandon his principles becomes the centre of a Fujian Min opera.
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Alessandro Sciarroni: Save the Last Dance for Me
Two dancers revive the close turns and mutual support of Italy’s Polka Chinata tradition.
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Yoann Bourgeois: He Who Falls
A tilting, rotating platform turns the search for balance into the central action of this physical performance.
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Form and Content II: Painting Workshops
A free series at ICA at NYU Shanghai invites small groups to look closely at one painting and discuss what they see.
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Dagger Society: Shanghai Opera House
Shanghai Opera House revisits a 1959 dance drama set around the city’s 1853 Small Swords Society uprising.
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After Looking: Conversations on Painting
Artists and curators bring the questions raised by ICA’s painting study groups into a free afternoon conversation.
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Gob Squad: Creation (Pictures for Dorian)
Cameras, frames and performers of different ages put beauty and ageing under scrutiny in Gob Squad’s theatre project.
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Red Wedding Bed: Liyuan Opera
A wedding bed becomes a space for dream, memory and theatrical play in a reworking of Chen San and Wuniang.
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Trisha Brown: In Plain Site
Trisha Brown Dance Company brings early works into the architecture and public space of Power Station of Art.
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TAO Dance Theater: 15 & 18
TAO Dance Theater pairs two Numerical Series works exploring collective formation, circular movement and calligraphic space.
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Tianchan Yifu: Dragon and Phoenix
Peking opera artists from across China assemble for a celebratory staging of Dragon and Phoenix.
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Love Letters with Fang Xu and Zhao Qian
Two actors and a live cello trace decades of affection through a sequence of more than seventy letters.