What's on

BEIJING

STAGE

Shine for jive: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater stages lively and inspiring modern dance. Established in 1958 by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African-American dancers, they challenge the perception of modern dance.

Now led by artistic director Judith Jamison, the troupe has toured 71 countries and gained a reputation for being promoters of American modern dance.

Time: 7:30 pm, October 26, 27

Place: Tianqiao Theater, 30 Beiwei Lu, Xuanwu District

Tel: 8315-6170, 8315-6300

Exhibitions

Tomorrow's talent: The Today Art Museum is holding a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Chinese art spanning the museum's five-year history.

Co-organized by the Minsheng Art Foundation and the museum, the exhibition encompasses more than 250 of the latest works from more than 50 selected promising young artists from across China. The newly established Chow Tai Fook Women Artists Awards will be given during the exhibition.

Time: 10 am-5 pm, until November 13

Place: Today Art Museum, 32 Baiziwan Lu, Chaoyang District

Tel: 5876-9392, 5876-9690

Leow goes solo: Vincent Leow is a pivotal figure in both artistic renovation and the development of art groups in Singapore. Leow's early paintings are raw and visceral canvases that bear the influences of German painters. His later paintings register several shifts, particularly those created during and after his art studies in the United States. Some of his works feature an urban-street style and are arguably Neo-Surrealic. Others carry a Pop-art sensibility, a taste for kitsch and a highly individual visual vocabulary.

This is nowhere more evident than in Andy's Pranks and Swimming Lessons, his solo show now displaying his latest works, which represent Singapore at the Venice Biennale 2007.

Time: 11 am-1 pm, 3-7 pm, until October 27

Place: Xin Beijing Art Gallery, 1-3 Granaries, 22 Nanxincang, Dongsi Shitiao, Dongcheng District

Tel: 6409-6380

Playing with ink: The International Art Gallery of the Today Art Museum is presenting Bulgarian artist Phenix Varbanov's one-man show of experimental ink works.

Born in 1962 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated from Pairs Fine Art Academy, Verbanov has for the past 15 years tried his hand at a number of mediums including oil painting, drawing, installation, photography and ink art. He draws inspirations from various art forms, including rock music, Abstractionism and Chinese ink paintings.

Time: 10 am-5 pm, until October 29

Place: The International Gallery of Today Art Museum, 32 Baiziwan Lu, Chaoyang District

Tel: 5876-9392

CONCERT

Wells and good: Wells Cathedral School Chamber Choir is the pride of the ancient British town, which is famed around the world for its 1,000-year-old Wells Cathedral. Their repertoires include religious songs and hymns in the forms of duets, quartets, chorus and others.

Time: 7:30 pm, October 26

Place: Peking University Concert Hall, Peking University, Haidian District

Tel: 6275-2279, 6275-9637

Shanghai

Exhibition

Celebrating snapshots: The exhibition entitled Celebrating teams up 15 famous Chinese photographers to show their latest works in order to celebrate the relocation of EPSON Imaging Gallery in Moganshan Lu.

Critic Gu Zheng noted that the show will offer viewers a good opportunity to learn about the latest Chinese contemporary photographic art and practice.

Time: 9 am-5 pm, until November 27

Place: EPSON Imaging Gallery, Room 106, Building No 7, 50 Moganshan Lu

Tel: 021-6266-9191

(China Daily 10/25/2007 page20)