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Intimate Relations
Ballroom movement and Argentine tango become a physical study of attraction, dependence and separation.
The Shanghai edit
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Recently added recommendations. New here does not mean newly opened.
Choose a starting point from our growing Shanghai selection, then follow its official sources to plan your visit.
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Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary exhibitions add a present-day art stop to Duolun Road’s literary and cultural setting.
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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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Yangyun at Amanyangyun
Historic courtyards and a landscaped resort setting host selected art programmes outside central Shanghai.
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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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Heim Shanghai
House, techno and local selectors make Heim a programme-led stop for a late night on Changle Road.
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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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Highline Shanghai
A rooftop setting above Huaihai Road hosts selected DJ parties and evening gatherings.
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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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SYSTEM at Shanghai Hotel
SYSTEM’s current programme uses an event space at the Shanghai Hotel address on Wulumuqi North Road.
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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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Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Science exhibitions and screen-based experiences make this Century Avenue museum a substantial indoor outing.
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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.
PlaceCulture
Shanghai Astronomy Museum
Space, celestial observation and striking architecture make the astronomy museum a reason to travel out to Lingang.
EventConcerts
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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China Maritime Museum
Ships, navigation and maritime history give a Lingang day trip a different focus from the city’s art museums.
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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.