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The Zhengzhou Opera and Dance Drama Theater will stage the dance drama Shaolin in the Wind, in Beijing. It is a creative combination of music, dance and martial arts, a cooperation between playwright Feng Shuangbai, composer Tang Jianping and the performers. It tells of a Shaolin monk whose fate it is to be turned from an ordinary person into a hero. Among the kung fu performances and war scenes, the story also deals with the tragic love story between the hero and his beloved woman.

7:30 pm, Aug 13-16