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Moumoon Fullmoon Live Special 2017
Date: Oct 21 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Dream Hall
Price: 380-680 yuan
Moumoon is a Japanese pop duo comprising Yuka (vocals) and Kousuke Masaki (guitar). The band's name is a portmanteau of the French word "mou" (soft) and the English "moon". The duo met at a summer rock festival in 2004; after swapping demo tapes, the pair decided to work together professionally. The band self-produced and arrange the vast majority of their songs, with Masaki composing the music while Yuka writes the lyrics. Both band members were brought up on classical music, with Masaki playing piano and Yuka a keen violinist. Their present musical style covers various types of music such as pop, alternative rock, electronica, folk and indie rock. A popular band in their native Japan and elsewhere, many of their songs have received massive amounts of radio airplay, and been used in TV commercials and television soundtracks. They tour regularly (including a sequence of "Fullmoon Live" shows every full moon night), and are best known for their 2015 top-ten single, "Sunshine Girl".
Contact: 010-6655-0000
Monologues Revel's World Of Shakespeare
Date: Oct 28 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Dushu Lake Theater, Suzhou
Price: 60-280 yuan
Revel's World of Shakespeare was written and will be performed by Joseph Graves, directed by himself as well. Graves draws heavily on his considerable personal experiences with Shakespearean plays and study of the plays' articulations. Graves magically weaves a wildly comedic and deeply moving tale of childhood confusion and exploration, relating it all to the greatest of English writers, William Shakespeare. Artistic Director of PKU Institute of World Theatre and Film. Over the last twenty-eight years, Joseph has directed over fifty stage productions, including classical, contemporary, musical theater and opera, in America, Great Britain and China, such productions include: Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Alchemist, The Sea Gull, Three Sisters, The Private Lives of The Master Race and Fiddler on the Roof at such notable venues as The Welsh National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, and The Haymarket Theatre (West End) in Great Britain and numerous theaters throughout America as well as several in China. Graves has also written extensively for film and stage, including such films as Sweetwater for Viacom, and Hannah and Jack for Academy Award winner, Sir John Mills, along with many others. His plays, such as Revoco, Bunyan, and Word Circus, have received productions at such venues as The Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles, Perth Repertory Theatre in Great Britain and The Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. His latest play, Revel's World of Shakespeare, was given its world premiere in Beijing in the summer of 2005.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
Daniil Trifonov Piano Recital
Date: Sept 23 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 80-580 yuan
Moments before Daniil Trifonov performs, profound silence invariably takes possession of his audience. Its intensity depends not on concert hall convention; rather, it arises naturally from the Russian pianist's power to transcend the mundane and communicate music's timeless capacity to bind communities together. The Washington Post wrote of the "visceral experience" of hearing Trifonov's playing; the S��ddeutsche Zeitung, meanwhile, described his debut concert at last year's Verbier Festival as "a real culture shock", such was its blend of poetic insight, wit, nuance and inventive brilliance.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
NCPA Drama Commission The Lei Family, the Royal Architects
Date: Sept 29 - Oct 6 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 100-500 yuan
In charge of royal construction works of the Qing Dynasty, the Lei family has made a great many glorious and brilliant achievements over 260 years. Its members, skilled craftsmen of super talent across seven generations, made Beijing a metropolis with hard work and wisdom. The family was respected and renowned for the design and building of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, and other palaces, gardens, temples and mansions concerned. By starting with the man-building relationship, The Lei Family unfolds the strong charm and flavor of Beijing, telling how Lei Siqi and his son Lei Yanchang see the nation go to the dogs together with the hills and gardens, and therefore show concern for it in the ruins in the late Qing Dynasty. In this way, the regime, spirit and moral integrity unique to Beijing, a historic city, is presented on the stage.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
Claire Kuo 2017 Less Is More Concert in Shenzhen
Date: Sept 23 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Shenzhen Shekou Fenghua Theater
Price: 180-480 yuan
Claire Kuo is a Taiwanese singer and television host. The daughter of a restaurant owner, Kuo graduated from Shih Hsin University and was a competitive cheerleader. After performing soundtracks for a number of Taiwanese television series, she released her debut album I Don't Want to Forget You in 2007, which garnered her numerous awards including Best Newcomer.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Against The Current 2017 Live
Date: Sept 24 - 8 pm
Venue: Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Dream Hall
Price: 280 yuan
The band, formed by Chrissy Costanza, Dan Gow and Will Ferri in 2011 in Poughkeepsie, NY, unveiled their first song, "Thinking," in mid-2012 and self-released two Eps in the years that followed. Their 2015 release Gravity, sent the band on a world tour, playing venues across the US, Europe and Asia and selling out shows everywhere from Tokyo to Amsterdam to Paris. The album 'In Our Bones' as a whole encompasses a range of feelings and experiences, as well as stylistic tones. "Young & Relentless" is buoyant and propulsive, a bounding pop rock track with an immediate chorus, while anthemic pop number "Forget Me Now" is what Will calls "a look into the past, present and future of our lives." Lyrically, Chrissy took inspiration from other music and books she was reading, and drew a lot from her own experiences.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
OneRepublic 2017 Live
Date: Sept 27 - 8 pm
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai
Price: 380-1,280 yuan
From track to track, OneRepublic parallel the extraordinary scope of the album's creation by blending altrock, gospel, synth-pop, nu-disco, and folk. OneRepublic are now setting their sights on another journey across the globe. With extensive touring in the future, including support to U2 on their Joshua Tree Tour, the band looks forward to bringing even more new music back to the very places where it first came to life.
Contact: 400-610-3721
Musical West Side Story
Date: Nov 23-Dec 6 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Shanghai Culture Square
Price: 200-1,000 yuan
rovocative finger snapping of street gangs, Puerto Rican girls' whirling skirts on New York City's flat roofs, derelict West Side backyards - just a few notes of Leonard Bernstein's world-famous score, featuring songs such as Maria, Tonight, Somewhere, America and I Feel Pretty, immediately evoke these images of West Side Story. At its 1957 Broadway premiere the musical redefined an entire genre both musically and in terms of dance. The genius of its four creators - Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim - produced a piece whose great artistic quality remains unquestioned to this day. The film version won ten Oscars and brought the masterwork to an audience of millions just a few years later. Today West Side Story stands unchallenged as the No. 1 of American musical theater - daring, realistic, and as relevant as on the day of its premiere.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
Activities & Nightlife
Kooza in Shanghai
Date: Oct 1-Dec 23 - 3 pm
Venue: Expo Park, Shanghai
280-1,980 yuan
As a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil, Kooza tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world. Between strength and fragility, laughter and smiles, turmoil and harmony, Kooza explores world with audiences in a light and delightful atmosphere, and also offers a nice family time together. As the largest theatrical producer in the world, Cirque du Soleil stands out for its theatrical, character-driven approach and the absence of performing animals. It combines two circus traditions to Kooza: acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. Kooza has Balancing on chairs, Contortion, High wire, Hoop, Unicycle duo, Wheel of death and more to develop the storyline. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement! You can fully enjoy this masterpiece that swept Europe, America, Asia and Australia, only when you are under the Cirque du Soleil marquee. There are more than 175 costumes and 160 hats in the show - 1,080 items in all, including all the shoes, props, wigs and so on. One army costume features more than 400 individuallysewn metallic flaps to create the effect that it is armored. With a stream of uplifting songs with timeless influences where forms and styles intertwine seamlessly, the music of Kooza is live played by six musicians during each performance: trumpet, trombone, bass, drums, percussion, saxophone, electric guitar, and keyboard. There are also two singers who sing live during each performance. The Kooza circular stage provides the audience with excellent sight lines through 260 degrees. Everything is done out in the open with simplicity and transparency in order to focus attention on the artists and the acrobatic performances. The stage is dominated by one major set element, a traveling tower called the Bataclan. The decoration of the Bataclan is inspired by Hindu culture, Pakistani buses and Indian jewelry. The Kooza stage is the highest stage ever designed by Cirque du Soleil. With 39 feet height, the need for extra space is fulfilled for the Jack-in-the-Box hydraulics. The cast and crew of Kooza, representing 18 nationalities, are carefully selected and well-trained artists. Approximately 120 people travel with the tour including more than 100 members of the cast and crew.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
The Fifth Annual China Women's Film Festival
Date: Sept 23-24 - 1:30 pm
Venue: Beijing American Center/Institut Francais/Instituto Cervantes/Goethe-Institut/Camera Stylo/Crossroads Center/Min Sheng Art Museum/Beijing Normal University
Price: Free
See dozens of films and a Q&A with acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman at this socially conscious film festival that tackles misogyny in the tech industry, gender conformity in the Middle East, ageism in the beauty industry and more.
Contact: 010-8404-2168
Sports
2017 NHL China Games Presented by ORG Packaging
Date: Sept 23 - 3 pm
Venue: Wukesong Arena
Price: 160-1,880 yuan
The world's best ice hockey league is bringing the Los Angeles Kings and the Vancouver Canucks to faceoff in the first-ever preseason games to be played in china. the 2017 NHL china games presented by ORG. packaging will be played on September 21 at Mercedes-Benz arena in shanghai and September 23 at Wukesong arena in Beijing.
Contact: 400-610-3721
2017 UFC Fight Night
Date: Nov 25 - 4:30 pm
Venue: Shanghai Expo Culture Center
Price: 280-13,880 yuan
UFC is a premium global sports brand and the largest pay-per-view event provider in the world. UFC produces more than 40 live events annually that consistently sell out some of the most prestigious arenas around the globe. By the June of 2017, UFC has traveled to more than 129 cities across 20 countries, delivering 401 events around the world. UFC programming is broadcast in over 163 countries and territories to more than 1.1 billion TV households worldwide in 35 different languages. In 2016, WME| IMG purchased UFC in hopes of continuing the organization's extraordinary growth. WME|IMG's expertise, reach and capabilities across the sports and entertainment landscape will push UFC further into mainstream media and highlights its prominence in global culture. UFC is truly a global brand with 274,000,000 fans around the world.
Contact: 010-6655-0000
(China Daily 09/23/2017 page20)
