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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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What’s happening in Shanghai
Current and announced events, with venues and useful visiting details.
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Made It Dance: TOKiMONSTA at Reactor
TOKiMONSTA leads SHFT’s first Made It Dance night at Reactor, with local selectors across the programme.
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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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Wong Kit Yi: BANK-A-OKE / TEM-PLE-OKE
Karaoke, architecture and ritual connect two installations in Wong Kit Yi’s Rockbund Art Museum exhibition.
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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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Yangyun Donum Art Festival
Contemporary art moves through courtyards, gardens and interior spaces at Amanyangyun in Minhang.
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Shudao
Sichuan’s historic routes inspire a dance drama linking mountain passes, waterworks and cultural memory.
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Zhang Meng: I Lost Half My Soul Here
Zhang Meng brings drawing, artist books, sound and textiles together in a presentation spanning ten years of work.
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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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Xu Lishuang: Passing, gnissaP
Xu Lishuang turns everyday actions, industrial objects and spatial movement into an exhibition at ShanghART M50.
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Starry Nights: Argerich, Vengerov, Isserlis and Friends
Martha Argerich, Maxim Vengerov and Steven Isserlis lead two evenings of chamber music.
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Han Qian: Treading Paths Swelling with Soft Grass
Han Qian follows hidden histories through video, sound and objects at ShanghART SUHE.
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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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Bvlgari Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts
Jewellery and contemporary art meet in an exhibition about colour on the second floor of the Power Station of Art.
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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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Hu Jieming: The Remnants and Echoes of Image
Hu Jieming’s media-art practice becomes an exhibition of works, documents and fragments on Duolun Road.
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Mariinsky Theatre: Aida
Verdi’s Aida comes to the new Shanghai Grand Opera House in a Mariinsky production conducted by Gergiev.
On the house
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Vitalisms II: Untimely Inheritances I
Seven artists explore painting, abstraction and value in a free exhibition at ICA at NYU Shanghai.
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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.
On the house
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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.
On the house
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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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Market Umbrella at Heim
How?well, Yang Bing and Jeff Chong share an overnight house session at Heim on Changle Road.