Coming up
Stage
Belly Dance
The Belly Dance Super Stars from the United States will give a series of performances in Shanghai this month. The show featuring international award-winning belly dancing masters has toured more than 20 countries and given 450 successful performances.
Dec 15-19, 7:30 pm
Shanghai Theatre Academy STA Theater
670 Huashan Road
华山路670号，上戏剧场
Tel: 6217-2426
Tickets: 120-580 yuan
Street Angel
The musical adapted from the eponymous 1940s movie is back for the second year running in Shanghai, with some changes. Borrowing the best-loved songs from the movie, the musical retells the story of a group of young and beautiful people in an old Shanghai slum and their pursuit of happiness.
Dec 14 - Jan 3, 7:30 pm
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Drama Theater (1F)
288 Anfu Road
安福路288号，上海话剧艺术中心
Tel: 6473-0123
Tickets: 100-200 yuan
The Unexpected Guest
This is one of the few plays that novelist Agatha Christie actually wrote herself. The play will be staged in Chinese. A guy drives his car into a ditch in heavy fog and has to walk to a nearby house for help. Unfortunately he walks into a murder scene. Laura, holding a gun, stands by her dead husband, and admits to having killed him. The man agrees to help Laura, but finds there is more to the tale than meets the eye.
Dec 24-Jan 31
Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Drama Salon (3F)
安福路288号，上海话剧艺术中心
Tickets: 120-150 yuan
Jeff Chang
The pop singer from Chinese Taipei is famous for his high-toned voice and love songs. Having been famous in China since the early 1990s, he has lots of golden hits that people can sing along to at his solo concert at Shanghai Grand Stage.
Dec 19, 7:30 pm
Shanghai Grand Stage 1111 Caoxi Road N.
漕溪北路1111号，上海大舞台
Tel: 6217-2426
Tickets: 180-1680 yuan
Sisters on Stage
This dance drama about Yueju (folk) singers in 1940s Shanghai pursuing artistic perfection and moral integrity in a difficult age was adapted from a movie of the same name in the 1960s. The show will be presented by Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe. Many of the songs derive from the folk music of the Yangtze Delta, as well as melodies in classical Yueju Opera.
Dec 16-18, 7:15 pm
Shanghai Grand Theatre 300 Renmin Avenue
人民大道300号，上海大剧院
Tel: 6386-8686
Tickets: 100-580 yuan
Exhibitions
* all Shanghai Art Museum shows cost 20 yuan; others are free
He Jiaying
His importance lies in the fact that he has developed to a new height Chinese fine brush painting which features meticulous details. He combined western painting skills with Chinese art system, and used fine brush to depict modern subjects.
Until Dec 18
Shanghai Art Museum 325 Nanjing Road W.
南京西路325号，上海美术馆
Tel: 6327-2829
Daniele Heusslein-Gire
The 68-year-old French woman is a versatile artist, doing paintings, sculptures, photography, stage design, and so on. Her first exhibition is going on at the newly-opened Hongqiao Contemporary Art Museum, showcasing 74 pieces of her creation, most of them paintings and photographs. Her video art works are also presented.
Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art 650 Xianxia Road
仙霞路650号，虹桥当代艺术馆
Tel: 6261-8834
Winter Exhibition
This exhibition shows the diversity of artists represented by the IFA gallery, including emerging artists from China and Vietnam. Rediscover Some Space for Humanity by the Gao Brothers shares space with meditative portraits by Nguyn Minh Thanh while Liu Bolin's world-renowned Camouflage series depicts social and urban changes in China.
Until Jan 24
Ifa Gallery-contemporary art 621 Changde Road
常德路621号，艺法画廊-当代艺术
Tel: 6256-0835
Oyama Tadashi
Forty-five prints by Japanese artist Oyama Tadashi are exhibited at Hongmiao Art Gallery located in a 100-year-old temple off Nanjing Road E. Tadashi's artworks have a basic visual character: inheriting the "peaceful" vision in the traditional art of East Asia. Tadashi's art reflects the flow of time through his images.
Until Jan 6, 10 am-6 pm
Shanghai Hongmiao Art Gallery 50 Shitan Lane, 496 Nanjing Road E.
南京东路496号石潭弄50号，上海虹庙艺术
Tel: 6351-1310, 6350-5629
Swiss Images
Mei Chaohui (Elliot Mei)'s photographs featuring Swiss sceneries and lifestyle will be exhibited at the grand hall of Channel One Shopping Center. Mei's pictures take an Oriental point of view to portray Western scenes, winning high acclaim both at home and abroad. At the same time, John X B Sun's water-ink paintings featuring scenes from Zurich will be shown at Shimen Gate shopping center.
Dec 1-31
Channel One
155 Changshou Road
长寿路155号调频壹
Shimen Gate
169 Wujiang Road
吴江路169号石门里
River and Mountains
An exhibition is going on at the Mingyuan Art Center, showcasing Chinese paintings by four contemporary artists: Xiao Haichun, Che Pengfei, Le Zhenwen and Li Jinkun. All the four artists are well trained in traditional Chinese art and have found new expressions by incorporating new aesthetic ideas in their creation.
Until Dec 31
Mingyuan Art Center 1199 Fuxing Road M.
复兴中路1199号,明圆文化艺术中心
Tel: 6473-8383
Zhang's Textiles Annual Exhibition
Zhang's Textiles, founded in 1970, is the largest time-honored company dealing in ancient embroidery from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The works are presented in hand-picked frames on historic canvases. Zhang's Textiles will present a month-long exhibition in One Xintiandi Clubhouse by invitation only. Please contact the clubhouse directly to make a viewing reservation.
One Xintiandi Clubhouse
Xintiandi Plaza, Taicang Road near Huangpi Road S. No. 1 North Block, Lane 181
太仓路１８１弄北里一号，新天地会所
Tel: 5382-9898
Zhang's Textiles
Suite 202A, Shanghai Centre, 1376 Nanjing Road W.
南京西路１３７６号，上海商城２０２A
Tel: 6279-8587
(China Daily 12/05/2009 page14)
