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Rachid Ouramdane: OUTSIDER
Twenty dancers and four extreme-sports performers test trust, risk and collective movement in OUTSIDER.
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PlaceCulture
TANK Shanghai
Contemporary art occupies a cluster of converted tanks on the West Bund riverfront.
EventConcerts
Vienna Philharmonic with Tugan Sokhiev
Two Vienna Philharmonic programmes pair Beethoven and Brahms on the first night, then Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
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Mount Hua: A Legend of Love and Deliverance
Shanghai Yue Opera revisits the Lotus Lantern legend in a new production about family and freedom.
PlaceCulture
Changjiang Theatre
Chinese opera and dramatic productions bring an intimate cultural stop to Huanghe Road.
EventActivities
The Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
The Bolshoi brings its full Don Quixote production to Shanghai Culture Square for three evenings.
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Prime Minister Liu the Hunchback: Night Trial
Beijing Jingju revives the Night Trial chapter of its comic historical opera about Liu Yong.
PlaceCulture
Shanghai International Dance Centre
Ballet and contemporary dance share a dedicated performance address on Hongqiao Road.
EventActivities
Rosas danst Rosas
Four dancers turn repeated everyday gestures into the charged movement language of De Keersmaeker’s 1983 work.
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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.
PlaceCulture
STA Duanjun Theatre
A Shanghai Theatre Academy stage that brings drama into the Huashan Road campus.
EventActivities
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.
PlaceCulture
The Inlet
Lane houses, exhibitions and contemporary cultural activity meet in this Hongkou block.
EventActivities
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.
PlaceCulture
Shanghai Grand Opera House
Opera takes centre stage at Shanghai’s new Yongzhan Road performance address.
EventActivities
Tianchan Yifu Peking Opera Concert
Senior Peking opera performers gather for a vocal programme marking Tianchan’s anniversary season.
EventExhibitions
Estelle Hanania: We Deem We Dream
Forty-four photographs take viewers into contemporary dance rehearsals, performances and backstage moments.
PlaceCulture
Theatre YOUNG
Contemporary performance gives Kongjiang Road a destination for dance, theatre and visiting artists.
EventConcerts
Symphony of Sizhu: Suzhou Chinese Orchestra
Jiangnan silk-and-bamboo traditions meet orchestral scale in a programme led by Peng Jiapeng.
EventExhibitions
Terra Nova at TANK Shanghai
Digital installations, AI moving images and real-time interaction meet in the first X-TRA exhibition.
PlaceCulture
West Bund Theatre
A West Bund stage for touring dance and performance, with the riverfront close at hand.
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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.