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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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What’s happening in Shanghai
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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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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Staatsoper Berlin: Der Rosenkavalier
Christian Thielemann conducts Richard Strauss’s opera in André Heller’s production for Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
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Ponder Slowly Swallow Slowly
A group exhibition models its visitor route on the mouth and digestive system, making eating a way to think.
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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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Chen Junkai: L’OuLiPo du Media
Sound, moving light and AI become active materials in Chen Junkai’s exhibition about machine-assisted creation.
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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.
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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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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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Absolute Mozart: Berliner Barock Solisten
Noah Bendix-Balgley and Diyang Mei join Berliner Barock Solisten for a Mozart-focused chamber-orchestral evening.
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Paavo Järvi, Alexandre Kantorow and Estonian Festival Orchestra
Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto meets Sibelius and Erkki-Sven Tüür in a programme led by Paavo Järvi.
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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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La Fenice: Tosca
Venice’s Teatro La Fenice brings Puccini’s Tosca to Shanghai in a staging that moves the drama into the 1950s.
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Skate of the Art
Skateboarding becomes a way to read cities in a photography and video exhibition at Fotografiska Shanghai.
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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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Thomas Sauvin: Beijing Silvermine
Discarded photographic negatives become a portrait of everyday life in Thomas Sauvin’s Beijing Silvermine project.
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Gergiev and Mariinsky: Shostakovich Symphony Cycle
All fifteen Shostakovich symphonies form a multi-concert cycle conducted by Valery Gergiev.
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Robert Zhao Renhui at Fotografiska
Robert Zhao Renhui uses photography and moving image to look closely at human relationships with the natural world.