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Multi-media Music Theatre - 2o15

2015 unfolds like an unfinished history book and tragicomedy in our life. On the other side of 2015, we have 2o15. These are two parallel universes where the same people and similar landscapes recur but develop in different ways. This work is based on scenarios of our daily life. Players, as normal citizens lead you through worlds of reality and imagination, conventional and alienated worlds. The boundary between the real world of 2015 and the virtual one of 2o15 will be broken at last, for both of them share peoples confusion, pain and love. Zhou DongZhou Dong is graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music (Department of Music Engineering). During her study of electroacoustic music composition, she focused much on those sound art forms which have multiple sound sources such as radio drama and soundscape composition. Influenced by these art forms, she tries to create different spaces and layers of sound to fully express her imagination of music. She won several prizes for her excellent achievements in this field, including the first prize of "Sound of Shanghai" Soundscape recording competition, the first prize of the Sound of World ringtones collection, Spark Award of the fourth film festivals in Macao and Second Prize of National Undergraduate Film Competition and the most potential animated short film by the Ninth Golden Monkey Cartoon Award in China.

Music 2015

Symphony - Five Actions of Wu Kong

The Monkey King embodies many contradictions, he was given the Buddhist name "Wu Kong(mneaning "to realize the void of senses"), he was doomed to a fate of struggling and fighting for freedom. We always say that deep in every Chinese soul, there lives a Monkey King, fighting for freedom as we define it ourselves, during our lifetime. The work Five Actions of Wu Kong reflects ones inner ambivalence, when it comes to freedom, fate and lifes journey. The five actions are constructed using a Chinese theatrical approach to tension and relaxation. The titles are as follows: Lento - the Purple Forest of Spirits; Presto - "There is a young lady on the road ahead!"; Andante - Monolog in the Moonlight; Largo - "Wear this metal head hoop, and you will be free"; Allegro - Eternal Battle Symphony Ochestra. Zhou JuanA native of Sichuan, grew up in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Zhou Juan graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (BA and MA) and University of Missouri - Kansas City (DMA). She is associate professor in music composition at the Central Conservatory. She was awarded the China Music Golden Bell Award,17th and 18th National Music Composition Award, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, GEDOK Fuch-Award", and Staunton Music Festival Emerging Composer Award. She received commissions and has worked with China National Centre for the Performing Arts, Korean Traditional Arts Foundation, Beijing Peoples Art Theatre, Chongqing Peking Opera House, Chengdu Peking Opera Research Center, Alarm Will Sound, Nieuw Ensemble, Kansas City Chorale, Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Virginia Arts Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts. Her major works include End of the Earth (orchestra), Far Far Away (orchestra), Before Curtain!(symphonic band), My Spiritual Garden (Uygur artists and chamber orchestra), Wu Kong (opera), Fate Makes a Choice (music theater), Golden Lock (Peking Opera incidental music), Sing by the River Flower (Peking Opera incidental music), Oedipus the King (musical play), Love Cantata, Wind (chorus a cappella), Second Language (jazz mixed combo) Water Your Memory (jazz band), Ming (large ensemble), Say "Bye"(large ensemble), Cycle of Life (song cycle), two string quartets, and many chamber works.

Music 2015

Dance Theatre - Farewell My Concubine

The King Disarmed is a classic solo piece played by Chinese traditional instrument Pipa. Based on the historical story of Chu-Han combat in ancient China, this music piece tells of the tragic suicide of King Xiang at the back of the Wu River as he was struck by the eventual defeat at the Battle of Gaixia. Farewell, my Concubine is a dance theatre adapted from the King Disarmed. The theatre unfolds an unlinear historical narrative as Yu Jis phantom is accidently awakened by Pipa performer Tang Xiaofengs pipa music. The theatre presents a dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary, man and female, the identity and the ego, time and space. Ma TaoMa Tao is currently the resident choreographer of the Shanghai Opera House. Graduated from the Department of Choreography at Beijing Dance Academy, Ma won many national and regional prizes in choreographing. Among which there were the second prize of the 8th National Dance Competition, and the golden medal in the 2012 East China Professional Dance Competition. His major works include Mulan (with Graeme Murphy and the Sydney Dance Company), Twelve Beauties of Jin Ling, The Champagne, Zhou Xuan and dance works Night Alley, Rain of the Fortress Besieged. Hes also involved in many cross-genre productions. Tang XiaofengTang Xiaofeng, Pipa soloist of Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, one of the best young musicians of traditional folk instrument in China now. Graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music, Tang accomplished his master degree on Pipa performance under the guidance of Pipa master Prof. Zhang Qiang. He is the silver prize winner of the 2011 China Golden Bell Award. Tang is dedicated to infusing up-to-dated elements into the contemporary interpretation of traditional folk music.

Dance 2015

Contemporary Dance - Between N39° and N40°

Between N39° and N49° is a work discussing "distance". Over the years, the choreographer travels back and forth between New York and Beijing, which are located between 39 and 40 degrees north latitude, but across the Pacific Ocean with thousands of miles apart. The physical distance is unchangeable. People come and go, meet and part. The distance of time cannot be changed either. Night and day, darkness and dawn. The river of memory is mixed with the aroma of coffee and sunshine on the streets. Illusions rise from the harshest reality: between 39 and 40 degrees north latitude, what could never be changed is the distance between souls. Lu YahuiLu Yahui is an independent choreographer and dancer. From 2004 to 2012, she worked with Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Beijing Dance Theatre, and Hou Ying Dance Theatre. She also worked with many renowned international artists including Sang Jijia, Zhang Xiaoxiong, Margaret Jenkins, Wang Yuanyuan, Hou Ying, and toured to international arts festivals at more than twenty countries. As a young choreographer, her works include Nineteen Floors Underground, Drowning, Walk Gracefully Once, etc. She relocated to New York in 2013 and has since worked with many choreographers and dance companies, and participated performance projects at Columbia University and New York University. She returned to China in 2015 to create her new work "Face to Face", which was invited to participate the 32nd Annual Shanghai Spring International Music Festival.

Dance 2015

Multi-media Dance - Hope is the Thing with Feather

With the body as media, reflected and filled with music and movie, the dance conveys a kind of peoples relationship which is the easiest and also the most difficult to understand. In the relationship, men and women compete with each other, they cant wait to make each other become part of their bodies under the strong love, and will feel like dropping into an abyss when facing departure as well. There are so much helpless and reluctance in our lives, in the search of love, we have already spent the whole life. Wu JiaWu Jia is currently a tenured associate professor at Saint Marys College of California. Watching her works was "a once-in-a-lifetime experience" and she masters to use "a unique way to portray stories". She won the Best Dance on Camera Award at Hong Kong International Dance and Film Festival. Ms Wu has been commissioned or invited to perform by a number of professional international dance festivals, such as: International Tanzfest NRW, Pina Bausch, Mexican International Meeting and Research in Dance, San Francisco International Art Festival, Los Angeles Dance Invitational Festival and more. Her works have been presented in American Lincoln Centre, England BBC and more than fourteen countries.

Dance 2015

Dance Theatre - Painted Skin

Painted Skin is one of the best stories from Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio. It satirizes the way in which people are adept at "painting skins" for themselves, dressing themselves up with an appealing exterior while hiding a debased soul within. This performance seeks a less-travelled path at the same time while taking the story back to its essence. The wife is cast as the main character as well as the malicious ghost, both played by the same male actor. The malicious ghost is borne out of the turns of the wifes mind: her lack of faith gives rise to the ghost that tormented her husband, and her repentance is also capable of bringing her husband back from the dead. This symbolic deconstruction of the story makes the performance a novel visual experience and creates endless possibilities for imagination. Is the good wife a malicious ghost, or vice versa? This structure, akin to an optical illusion that switches back and forth, conveys the essence of the work and the Eastern concept of beauty. Yang HailongGraduated from College of Dance, Minzu University of China, Yang Hailong is now Executive Art Director of Beijing 9 Dance Theatre. He used to work as a main dancer in Beijing Dance Drama & Opera and Beijing Dance Theatre. Yang has been engaged in choreography in recent years and to Germany, Japan, France and the Netherlands for cultural exchanges and performances. Yangs masterworks include Salome, Ashes Rebirth, The Tea Spell and The Remaking of Humanity. Ashes Rebirth was nominated for the Special Award by the Jury of the Second Denny Award in Beijing for International Excellence in Theatrical Arts and won the Golden Award of the Qunxing Award on the 10th China Art Festival. The dance drama also received the subsidy for the performing arts from Beijing Cultural Bureau.

Dance 2015

Dance Theatre - The Moon Opera

This performance is an adaptation of the most famous novel from the Asian Book Award winner Bi Feiyu. It takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars. In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to underwrite a restaging of the cursed opera, but only on the condition that Xiao Yanqiu returns to the role of Change. So she does, this time believing she has fully become the immortal moon goddess. Set against the drama, intrigue, jealousy, retribution, and redemption of backstage Peking opera. The Moon Opera is a stunning portrait of women in a world that simultaneously reveres and restricts them. (Supported by 2014 China National Art Fund) Wang YabinDancer, choreographer and actress, Artistic Director of Yabin Dance Company (Yabin Studio), Yabin also has won golden awards in many key national dance competitions, and has been starring in several popular TV series in China. As dancer, choreographer and producer, she creates productions with an international perspective. Works she created in which she was also principle dancer won raves from media and audiences around the world. She was recognized as "one of the most important dancers in Asia" by Knack Focus. "She has a background in Chinese classical dance but has also worked to bring more contemporary dance to China, and headlines an annual programme of creations, Yabin and her Friends...Her performance gives us Chinese and contemporary dance as yin and yang…" by Financial Times. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung commented her "Yabin Wang presented an incredible dance in a soothing rhythm; her flexible, flowing and energetic movements were fascinating." In 2013 Yabin Studio commissioned Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and production the new piece "Genesis". In 2014, Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of the English National Ballet has invited Yabin Wang to choreograph a dance work for a new production by English National Ballet dedicated to female choreographers entitled "She Said". The performance will be premiered at Sadlers Wells in April, 2016.

Dance 2015

Dance Theatre - Escaping from the Temple

Escaping from the Temple is adapted from a classic play in Chinese opera, which is famous for its intricate singing technique and delicate emotion. Legend says that only a true star can master the role. Adapted into dance theatre for the first time, the work is a combination of ritualistic ambience, various musical elements and body movements. The story shows a young monk and a young nun meet coincidentally when they are escaping from their temple. Breaking all the rules and taboos of their religion, they keep their practice in secular blissfulness. Zhao LiangZhao Liang is a contemporary dance artist and choreographer. For him, dance is a unique tool to communicate between the mind and body. He has been researching the relationship between physicality and theatre/non-theatre spaces and exploring the possible languages for dance performance, specifically experimenting on the contemporary dance creation in connection with multiple traditional cultures and their elements. He connects drama, dance, sound/visual art and a lot of other art forms, with his very sensitive way of understanding the world. He has won many awards at home and abroad.

Dance 2015

Peking Opera Highlights

Theratrical Events 2015

Original drama competition Next Idea

The Final of Next Idea Night of Drama & Next Idea Original Drama CompetitionThe online work collection of Next Idea Original Drama Competition started in June this year. Currently, it is in a mass-election stage. In preparation of work, celebrity professional tutors from Kaixing Mahua will provide their assistance to participators, ensuring quality of programs On the Final. After half-year multi-channel election, Next Idea Original Drama Competition will select six groups from thousands of works coming from hundreds of universities. And they will give their showdowns on the Final scene.The Final will display short drama works from six groups. In addition, the Final includes other elements as well, including on-site interaction, improvisational topic show, etc. Two awards of 2015 Next Idea Original Drama Competition, respectively for actors and scripts, will be issued on the Final. On the Final evening, distinguished guests from drama, film and television industries will attend the Final. They will participate and witness emerging of Drama Star of Next Idea. Internet live telecast will be conducted first time for the competition. A great number of audiences will be able to watch the excellent shows trough online platform.

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Melody

Melody concerns on a marginalized group of autistic children.Zhang Tianyue is autistic people from Taiwan.Melody adapt from his life.And it is using dramatic presentation to explore autistic childrens emotional world and talking about their living environment,relationships with family and society.HOU Zhuyuan(Director)He graduated from the Directing Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy. His main director works are: "Absolute Signal" "Lethal Gun" "Bible men and women", "You are my father," "swan Dan" "made in china,Micro-film "Woo | Seoul." He starred in the drama are： Jiao Huang version of "Antony and Cleopatra," "submissive whore," "A Dolls House," "A group of monkeys," "Wilderness" "La Traviata," "Twelfth Night," "Television program" "" fiddle destiny "" hero debut, "" Victors, "" Rashomon, "" purgatory, "" Golden Lock "" poor Peony "" geologist. "He starred in the micro-film "Suifenhe Love" won the Macau International Film Festival "Spark Film Award.HU Xiao(Scenarist)She studied at the Shanghai Theater Academy of Art Education 2012, she was a drama explorer application. Has been involved in productions: "Hello robbery" "Shanghai South Railway Station," "Looking for the sound of the ear", "colosseum" "Reality" 1027.

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Cross Talk: Music In Spring

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ANDERSEN

ANDERSEN is a dance performance based on some of the fairy tales written by the famous danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.You will be invited to an adventurous journey with The Steadfast Tin Soldier in his hunt for love. You will see The Little Mermaid and many other mermaids sitting in the water edge trying to swap their voices for legs to dance with. You will feel the cold from The Snow Queen who freezes everything to ice, leaving The Little Match Girl dreaming back. You wil take a swim with The Ugly Duckling who does not yet know that she will develope to be the most beautiful swan.The fairy tales get a new life and will be interpreted through the movements of the dancers, their passion and their engaging energy.

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Children Play: Valley of the Lost Ants

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Komuro Tetsuya Music Life Piano Solo Concert

October 25, 2015, the Japanese Pop Music Godfather Komuro Tetsuya Music Life Piano Solo Concert in China Shanghaiwill be held at the Shanghai Theater Academy academy theater for the first time!Different from what we know about the past of the godfather Komuro Tetsuya on his pop music, this time we will show you a piano solo concert of Komuro Tetsuya to express his music life in this China tour. You can not only enjoy the former golden piano songs and wonderful piano performance, but also can listen to the music Godfather Komuro Tetsuya telling his the music course.Lets meet at the 17th China Shanghai International Art Festival Rising ArtistsWorks!Komuro Tetsuya, born on November 27,1958 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese musician, music producer, lyricist, composer, arranger, keyboard virtuoso, synthesizer programmer, remixer and DJ.In 1983 he composed the band NETWORK TM (TMN) with Utsunomiya Takashi, Kine Naoto.In 1984，he made a successful debut with the song《Friday Lion》.In 1993，he made a great fame through producing the group TRF, after that he also created and produced Ryoko Shinohara, Namie Amuro, Tomomi Kahara, H jungle with T, Globe and other famous artists. These artists have won millions of sales. The sales of their albums and single were once seld more than 170000000 dishes.Then he made the activities with the identity of the composer, and started to provide songs for AAA, supernova, SMAP, KIE Kitano, Ayumi Hamasaki, Miu Sakamoto, SUPER☆GiRLS, Diva, Alisa Mizuki and so on.In April 24, 2012, 25, TM NETWORK once again carried out activities and held a solo performance in the long-awaited at the Nippon Budokan. They also publicly released the first new single " I am " from the past five years. April 2014, they ushered in the 30 anniversary of the NETWORK TM, and launched a concert tour. In 2015 they ushered in the 20 anniversary of the Globe

Theratrical Events 2015

Musical: Four People In The Afternoon Museum

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Night of The Soul

A middle age guy who was struggling the balance between career and family is passing his meaningless life like a robot and nothing seems to be able to stop him until the death of his father.A young girl with cold heart wondering in the desert of men. No one feels like to chat with her because her odd personality and finally meets a random guy who changes her life entirely from the bar of the hotel that she staying.One simply night becomes a long and dark one which lasts for 400 years.In this period of time, they finally found the keys to each others heart and showing in the bless of God, at least it was what they thought it was.They opened a door hoping to see the future of their relationship eventually encountered the demons within.Fiction and Reality, love or karma, giving and receiving. This is what you will see in this show, in a special way of telling.

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Drama: North Shanghai

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black letters on white paper

Chinese characters are full of spirituality. Among them, 人contains most nimbus. It is a forms of expressing our souls. This play will show the charm of Chinese characters by 人. In this play, we will show features of papers and characters, whats more, we will give them new characteristic and humanistic significance of this new epoch.This is a play describes the process of how paper and character meet, get to know and fall in love with each other, but lose each other eventually. We want to show our cognitive and emotional exploration of traditional Chinese culture by this play. To make this play more interesting, we use an anthropomorphic metaphor to give paper and character humanity.This play, is a bridge of culture between China and foreign countries, and let Chinese audiences see how profound Chinese culture is.

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Aupa Quartet

Aupa Quartet⑴ SynopsisAupa Quartet, a string Quartet group, is very popular in Spain in the recent years. Four young musicians, educated in classical music, produced a style mixed with Jazz, Funk, Flamenco with traditional instruments. All the pieces are original. The pleasant tune with free style, gives more varieties to their works. ⑵ Artist ProfileAupa QuartetAupa Quartet is the winner of the first Made in Shasta music competition in 2014. They have performed on the occasion of an essential festival in Barcelona,and Italy and France as well. They have corporatedwith some renowned musicians: such as Antonio Rey (a Spanish Flamenco guitar pro), Cece Giannotti (a Canadian guitar pro and singer), and Raynald Colom(a French trumpeter and composer).

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