DREAMSTHE ASTEROIDS DANCE COMPANY Sometimes I daydream about the future. Will it be just as I imagine?Filled with love, laughter and clarity, or will mistakes, fear and destiny turn it all in different directions? In my daydreams I create a love story, during the night I dream about the rain, and for the future, I just dream as BIG as I can. In DREAMS the audience is invited to join 16 young dancers from The Asteroids Dance Company in Denmark on a dream journey filled with passion, dynamic and hope. Throughout the performance the Asteroids open their heart and show the audience what they dream about right now at this stage in their life. Through movement the dancers will fill the stage with their different personalities and they will unite in finding ways to embrace their dreams. DREAMS is based on a research among the dancers. A research focusing on the dancers thoughts about being a teenager in Denmark. DREAMS is choreographed by Lene Bonde, but throughout the process the Asteroids have been contributing with their own movements and ideas for the performance.The 16 dancers will be dancing both to live music, their own recorded voices and music composed only for this performance. Furthermore the Asteroids will dance to some familiar European songs, and even a cello will appear on the stage. THE ASTEROIDS DANCE COMPANY is based at the Royal Ballet School in Holstebro, Denmark where the 14-16 years old dancers are students. They are trained in Hip Hop, Ballroom dance and Contemporary dance, and in this performance they will share what their dreams through the contemporary style. Dancers: The Asteroids Dance CompanyChoreographer: Lene BondeMusic: Mads Emil NielsenRunning time: 45 minutes
Traces by the 7 Fingers CircusDirected by Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider, known from Cirque du Soleil INFODates: Saturday October 18th and Sunday October 19thTime: 19:30Audience: All agesDuration: Venue: Malanhua Theatre / 马兰花剧场Entrance Fee: 580RMB, 380RMB, 280RMB, 180RMB, 100RMB DESCRIPTION Traces is called one of the 5 best productions (out of 2,000) in the Edinburgh Festival where it received a Hairline Award. Time Magazine has titled it a Top Ten show in the category Plays and Musicals The Off Broadway Alliance » for the best Special Event. It received a Drama Desk Awards nomination and Conseil des arts de Montréal has Prized it for the best tour in Canada and the USA. In 2002, seven senior acrobats founded the Les 7 Doigts de la Main and as a new born troupe. They fought for the same target with their skills and experience. Exploring the different psychological levels, Traces leads the audience walking into the dreamlands, future visions and past memories of different roles by the acrobatics, Chinese high poles, German roller, high-wire acrobatics and teeterboard, with the features of avantgarde dancing, physical comedy, image and music. After the debut in Montreal, Canada in 2010, the highly popular Traces has gone out on world tours in U.S, UK, Japan and France.
Smashed by Gandini Juggling INFODates: Saturday October 18th and Sunday October 19thTime: 19:30Audience: All agesDuration: Venue: STA Theatre / 上戏剧院Entrance Fee: DESCRIPTIONTake 80 apples, nine performers and four sets of crockery and what do you get? Award-winning extreme juggling at its very best! Juggling with thirty kilos of apples and a couple of complete tea sets. Its all in Smashed, a contagious mix of movement, juggling, humour and music. Music from the 50s and 60s creates an atmosphere of nostalgia, lost love and the cosiness of an afternoon tea. Internationally-acclaimed Gandini Juggling are heading to the theatre with the unforgettable Smashed. At the forefront of contemporary circus for over 20 years, the company has performed worldwide in more than 40 countries and comes to Shanghai on the back of rave reviews. Not one apple is dropped.
It seems ridiculous and absurd. But we must go on, and the world will prove it for you.In a rough hostel, there are guests from different backgrounds and experiences. They seem to be strangers passing one another, but they all look forward to having a home, a place where they can live and stay. Although they speak different languages, it is human nature for them to create a common language. It is like going back to the past. Together they look at the familiar sorrow and sadness, and once again deconstruct their own lives. They make it to the dilapidated windows and doors and become to realize they can decide their own destiny. This is no longer rough hostel anymore...
Compelling story, exploring the relationship between dream and happiness. Qiaoqiao is a girl from Zhuang minority group. After graduation, she didnt embark on her dreamed design career, because she thought that only success could lead to happiness. Naïvely, she considered high income as the standard of success. By the lake of Minge, Qiaoqiao kissed a guy called Luo Haolong by mistake, and Luo fell for Qiaoqiao. Qiaoqiao opened a Superstar Wallpaper store, selling products copied from the brand of Luos family. Luo saw no future for Qiaoqiao doing so and warned her about it. But Qiaoqiao took his advice for granted. In order to help Qiaoqiao and to prove the strength of his family brand, Luo opened a Star Wallpaper store next to Qiaoqiaos store. Luos father wanted Luo to go on a blind date with the successor of Superstar Wallpaper. Luo made a bet with his father that if he could make profits of 100,000, then he can call off the blind date. In order to win the bet, Luo had to compete with Qiaoqiao. But their inadequate experience did not bring them any progress. A friend of Qiaoqiao suggested them to attend Sales League. In the sales show, they found that low price was more important to customers than high quality. Therefore, Qiaoqiao and Luo started a price war. It turned out that Luos Star Wallpaper store won the price war but still suffered deficit. Luo realized that he did not have a clue on how to operate a wallpaper store. He humbly turned to his father for advice. A neighbor, Miss Bao asked both Luo and Qiaoqiao for proposal on decoration. At the same time, Luo found out Qiaoqiaos design dream and encouraged her to pursue this dream. But Qiaoqiao still thought that dream can only be realised in dreams. Luo told her to be down to earth and strike effort step by step to achieve what she dreamed about……
Two stage drifters return, grappling with each over brilliant acting skills and attempting to uncover the mystery of the terminator. The comedy of To Kill or to be Killed tells a story about ‘executive terminators. The work was written by Huisen Pan and directed by Haoran Wang, and was once starred by the Hong Kong award-winning actor Anthony Wang and reputable film star Kwan-Ho Tse. In the play, two killers, Beiyue and Nanyue, are assigned to carry out their tasks by the ‘Division. Despite a rather political choice of the names, the play does talk about politics, but lifethe meaning of life is carefully examined during the process of killing. The roles of these two killers were created based on personal characteristics of the two actors. Huisen Pan, however, doesnt like a killer to be of a film stereotype of a cold-faced heroic figure; instead, he goes to the opposite. He takes out the legendary trait on killers and has them returned as an absolutely ordinary being. Putting aside their mysterious veils, his killers do cry and laugh like average people. In this play, the two killers are confined in the same space waiting for their targets, yet they are actually apart. The story begins with an odd setting, bringing the audience into the world of two marginalized lives. They play the game of death, embrace darkness instead of brightness and mask their fear by pretending to be brave. The process of waiting for the targets is presented in a comical and absurd way, aiming to touch upon the spiritual enlightenment that is deeply buried in human nature. Presented by: Top of the MountainTheatreRunning time: 80 minutesDirected by: Haoran WangWritten by: Huisen Pan Produced by: Lipeng ZhaoPerformer: Chong Chen, Youde Qin
A perfect meeting of dance and music begets a fascinating journey of memoriesEcho of movement, body of sound Dancing the moment before the memory disappears De/part is a dream, a password, a pathway for sound to evoke the memory in a body. Inspired by what she heard during her travels, TUNG I-Fen uses sound as a hub, connecting physical experiences and emotions from each foreign place, dancing between and outside of space and time. The flow of music and sound take us inside the body, to the edge of an echoing darkness. Making visions out of sounds and music out of bodies, through heightened sensations De/part leads us on…… The sound takes us where we want to go.
China and UK cooperation production, international actors. Dragon is a fantastic show with vivid imaginations for audiences of all ages. An extraordinary visual story told without words, featuring puppetry, illusion and original music. Dragon is a story without borders and will inspire children on dealing with lifes setbacks, how to overcome negative emotions, and how to gain courage of living a positive life. Through the magic stage effect, the show will bring children and their parents into an unparalleled experience and endless touching moments. The first performance of the show was last October in the UK, followed by 23 performances on tour all over the country with international audiences. Within only half a year, the show stood out from among hundreds of works, and has won five awards nominations from the top British theatre awards among which the Critics Awards For Theatre In Scotland (CATS). It is the first time for a production in cooperation with Chinese theatre received this honor in CATS.written by Oliver Emanuel
The play combines the traditional Peking opera with the time-honored art of shadow puppetry, resulting in an experimental Peking opera full of wonder and amazement.The audience will be vividly presented with an astonishing play with thick settings, mysterious oriental tales, sad but beautiful Peking opera singing and a dreamy puppet show throughout the cultural mingling of the East and West in both realistic and romantic ways. The show of The Execution of the Judge of Hell has made successful tours in Europe and has stirred much social repercussion.Amidst the Lantern Festival, the lantern servant, Ghost of Youliu, comes to Wangxiangtai to admire the lanterns, where he happens to witness the murder of Jinchan Liu. Aggrieved by the injustice, he sends ghosts to the nether world to right this wrong. Afterwards, he discovers that the murderer, Bao Zhang, is put under his fathers protection. Zhangs father serves as the Judge of Hell, so he secretly falsifies the life-and-death register book for his son. Hence Ghost of Youliu suffers much intimidation before Zheng Bao comes to the nether world to handle the case. The entire unjust story is then brought forward by Ghost of Youliu in front of Zheng Bao, whose resourcefulness helps to have the Judge of Hell executed. The play tells the story of how a ‘small potato refuses to go along with the evils of the world and fights for justice.Running time: 90 minutesDirected by: Sarah Oppenheim Written by: Feizi Han Art Director: Xing HanProduced by: Chi HanCast: Xuehua Wang; Xing Han
A Madmans Diary represents our own experience at present. We tried to have dialogue with the madman and Lu Xun.The stage is made up of stones and bricks and the acting is non-academic. We tried to create a kind of new theatrical aesthetics. A Madmans Diary, the first vernacular fiction written by Lu Xun, is seen as the first masterpiece of modern Chinese literature. It was written in April 1918, and then published within the fifth chapter of New Youth, volume 4. Lu Xun once said this fiction shows the achievement of ‘literary revolution, and inspires young readers by its ‘profound meaning and particular style. Therefore, it represents the beginning of new Chinese literature. According to the author, the theme of A Madmans Diary is to reveal the harm of family system and traditional propriety, that is, eating people. For most of us in modern society, this fiction is in accordance with our life experience todayconfused in faith and mind. And in this drama, we can try to exchange ideas with Lu Xun and his madman. The theater work A Madmans Diary is according to the novel, was directed by Li Jianjun, in 2011. Original Work :Lu XunScriptwriter:Zhuang JiayunDirector: Li JianjunLiterary adviser: Xue YiLighting Design:Han JiangStagecraft Design: Tan ZeenCostume Design :Wang MaoProduction Manager:Xiao JingMusic :Yang Mingchen
This style of performing arts has never been seen before, extremely spectacular! This production inspired all of us, both in the field of drama, and musical theater.(Yang Qianwu, Beijing Dramatists Association, Beijing, 2010)Performing as one of the closing programs in the 2010 Beijing International Youth Drama Festival, invited by the Trojan Theater(Beijing) for ticketed performances in 2011, and toured to the KunShan Culture & Art Center and Art Center of Tsinghua University in 2014, Miss Taiwan 2014 signs through its performance with the pun, telling a story of a Taiwanese-born songstress, studied and developed a flourishing singing career in the U.S., yet decided to come back to her hometown, for Miss Taiwan misses Taiwan. Miss Taiwan 2014 profoundly portrays 2 distinct lifestyles and intriguing cultural differences in Taiwan and America, combining a variety of music styles and songs in various languages, to communicate Miss Taiwans nostalgia and yearn for home. Miss Taiwan 2014 has attracted packed houses and enchanted audience both in Taiwan and China. It draws on A Cappella to present the show in the form cabaret and mixed with a diverse of elements of experiential theatre, not only offering an exceptional entertaining experience, but also a highly Taiwanese one with its rich digital media presentation of local cuisine and beautiful scenes. 80 mins,no intermissionPresented by Total Musical TheatreGeneral Manager:Chan, Chao-tsungProducer:Hsieh, Chia-cheWriter/Director/Set Designer/Video Designer/Stage Manager: Wu, Wei-weiMusic Director:Chan, Je-jiunPerformers: Chan, Je-jiun, Lai, Chia-hsuan, Kung, Neng-an, Chen, Bo-hao, Kuo, Tzu-hao, Tsai, En-lin, Sung, Yu-yiComposer of Theme Song:Liu, Sheng-xianLyricist of Theme Song:Lee, Yun-yuMusic Arranger:Yu, Ru-hanCostume Designer:Lee, Yu-linLighting Designer:Hung, Chi-yuSound Engineer:Zhang, Meng-shengBack Stage Manager:Sun, Wan-syuStage Crew:Lo, Wan-yuProduced/ Agented by We ART Together Culture Foundation, KaohsiungAssisted by Shu-Te University, Harbor Cities Education & Culture FoundationSupported by The Bureau of Culture, Kaohsiung City Government;Taiwan Affairs Office, Shanghai City Government
Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A). Composed of three stories: the Very Hungry Caterpillar, a Little Cloud and the Obscure ChameleonPresented by the Mermaid TheaterAuthor: Eric Carle In the past three decades Canadian Eric Carle has captured the attention of more than 20 million children worldwide with his endearing caterpillar with a red head, green body and roach back. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is poetic and creative, it has won numerous awards and the play has been highly praised on all continents. In the past three decades, the caterpillar with red head, green body and roach back created by Eric Carle, has captured the attention of more than 20 million children worldwide.The Very Hungry Caterpillar is poetic and creative. It has won numerous awards and the play has been highly praised on all continents. The black light puppet show The Very Hungry Caterpillar is adapted from the childrens picture book with the same name. It tells a story about how a caterpillar overcoming difficulties and becoming a butterfly. The show has been on tour for 15 years in more than 30 countries with an audience of over 5 million people. The 55-minute story and original music includes three parts: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and The Mixed-Up Chameleon. The first one has showed over 3300 times in 13 countries including Holland, UK, Spain, Japan, Korea and France. Eric Carle reviews: Im a big fan of the Mermaid Theater. Every time I see it, Im fascinated by its beauty and magic.