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Dream in Peony Pavilion
Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei’s love story moves into contemporary dance, between dreams, gardens and painted space.
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What’s happening in Shanghai
Current and announced events, with venues and useful visiting details.
Current and announced events, with venues and useful visiting details. Choose a starting point from our growing Shanghai selection, then follow its official sources to plan your visit.
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Wu Jingzi: Lu Opera
Anhui’s Lu opera tradition tells the life of Wu Jingzi, author of The Scholars.
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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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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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Estelle Hanania: We Deem We Dream
Forty-four photographs take viewers into contemporary dance rehearsals, performances and backstage moments.
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Symphony of Sizhu: Suzhou Chinese Orchestra
Jiangnan silk-and-bamboo traditions meet orchestral scale in a programme led by Peng Jiapeng.
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Terra Nova at TANK Shanghai
Digital installations, AI moving images and real-time interaction meet in the first X-TRA exhibition.
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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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ART021 Shanghai 2026
International galleries return to Shanghai Exhibition Centre for ART021’s contemporary art fair.
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Marc Coppey and François Dumont
Cello and piano trace French music from Romantic writing toward modernism in a duo recital.
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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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Víkingur Ólafsson Piano Recital
Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30 anchors a recital linking Bach, Schubert and Beethoven.
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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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Rudolf Buchbinder: Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle
Rudolf Buchbinder and Staatskapelle Berlin perform Beethoven’s five piano concertos across two evenings.
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Disco King
Ricky’s original songs connect concert performance, movement and digital imagery in Disco King.
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Nacera Belaza: La Nuée
Seven performers draw standing spectators around a close-range dance shaped by circles, sound and light.