Ditch your "Dancing With The Stars" DVDs for an authentic, riveting performance. Real ballroom dance fans will appreciate Burn The Floor, an entertaining live display of the sport. This Australian dance troupe has combined elements of various types of dance from the last 300 years with futuristic high technology multimedia ... Read More
We've all seen it: on any given Friday night at Bar Rouge, French men dance clumsily with hopes of impressing pretty Asian princesses. But before nodding your head in agreement that French people can't dance, check out Elektro Kif, a tecktonik show created by renowned Franco-Spanish choreographer Blanca ... Read More
Classical and techno rarely appear in the same iPod, but Grammy-nominated DJ and composer Carl Craig blends them effortlessly, creating a balanced sound that some say inspired the evolution of drum ’n bass. He brings the funk to MAO Livehouse on May 3.
Aware of his broad appeal and ability ... Read More
Too many concerts, too little time. The following is an exploration of the upcoming music festivals about to hit Shanghai. Music lovers, get excited!
During the month of April, there will be plenty of music festivals to keep you occupied during your weekends in Shanghai. Legendary rock MIDI will be ... Read More
Jewish people have had a long and special affinity with Shanghai. In the late ’30s and early ’40s, about 20,000 Jewish people escaped from a Nazi-occupied Europe to seek refuge in Shanghai. Contemporary Shanghai play North Bank Suzhou Creek (the photo above is a photo of the play in ... Read More
If you’e a fan of classical music, you’ll know Lorin Maazel, the French-American conductor, violinist and composer. The 82-year old virtuoso has an impressive resumé. He first picked up a violin at age 5, began conducting lessons at 7, conducted a university orchestra at 8 and made his ... Read More
David Garrett is a 31-year-old German violin master who has been called everything from “the Beckham of classical pop” to “the Kurt Cobain of the violin.” That pretty much sums up the charming, attractive violin virtuoso with a rock star personality and extraordinary musical talent. After receiving his first violin ... Read More
One year ago, Shanghai was a city without laughter. The only sure way to entertain oneself was to watch people try to squeeze onto packed metro cars at People’s Square. Finally, in February 2011, Aussie financier Andy Curtain gathered up a group of witty friends and mustered up the ... Read More
You might never have heard the name Han Hong, but if you’ve done KTV with a group of Chinese friends, likely one of them has made a valiant run at Han’s signature work, “Qingzang Gaoyuan” (Tibetan Plateau). The tune has been one of the most popular KTV songs ... Read More
For many of us living in Shanghai, Christmas is just another excuse to booze up, pig out and binge-shop. Hoping to remind people what Christmas really is, Shanghai-based American actress / singer Apphia Campbell has created Josephina’s Soulful Holiday, a modern-day Christmas carol musical about a material girl who discovers ... Read More
Paris, 1482: a malformed hunchback bell-ringer falls in love with a gorgeous gypsy dancer, thereby bequeathing the world one of history’s most beautiful love stories. If you were as touched by Quasimodo and Esmeralda’s mournful tale as we were, don’t miss Riccardo Cocciante’s excellent musical adaptation ... Read More
We have never laughed harder in our life than at last year’s Chicago Improv All-stars show. If you missed it, get your ticket now because these hilarious joke masters will be bringing down the house at Malone’s with another on-the-spot, audience suggestion-based sketch comedy feast. Brought to the ... Read More
Graceful, artistic and feminine. Those are usually the words used to describe a ballet performance. The Taming of the Shrew is one hilarious exception. Based on Shakespeare’s renowned comedy, this ballet features a stunning array of comically exaggerated movements, exhilarating dancing, a bizarrely entertaining story and vivid characterization, which ... Read More
Since their first festival in 2005, JZ Club has brought in many well-known international and domestic jazz musicians, including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Laura Fygi and Roy Hargrove. This year, in addition to a lineup of 67 acts that includes up-and-coming young local and international musicians at the Expo Garden Park ... Read More
There he is: standing in a room full of antiques, wearing a black dress and a string of pearls, speaking in English with a German accent. A departure from his last performance in The Odd Couple, this time Charlie Mayer plays 35 different roles in 3rd Culture Theatre’s I ... Read More
One of the world's only all-male drag ballet troupes is in Beijing--Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. I caught them in Beijing and they were fabulous and hilarious and then fabulous again.
Timeout did a good write-up of the show, but no amount of words can describe the ... Read More
The Shanghai Culture Square Theater brings your favorite show tunes to the stage at its grand opening. Kicking off the celebration, is Ultimate Broadway―a musical showcase of songs from a collection of the most successful shows ever featured on Broadway. The show has been specifically produced for the Culture ... Read More
Montreal-based entertainment company Cirque du Soleil awed Shanghai with breathtaking acrobatics, spectacular costumes and amazing lighting four years ago with more than 70 performances of Quidam. Now the Canadian kings of the circus return with Saltimbanco, an even more thrilling and kaleidoscopic performance. Originating from the Italian saltare in banco ... Read More
Get into your happiest boogie-woogie mood with Michael Kaeshammer, a multi-Juno Award winning pianist. The handsome key-tapper is coming in from Canada to bring you a concert of his most popular boogie-woogie jazz tunes, which’ll have you up on your feet, bopping your head and humming along. Besides playing ... Read More
James Blunt might not be the most beautiful man in the world but if you see his face in a crowded place (like the Mercedes-Benz Arena), you probably wouldn’t know what to do (besides screaming), ’cause the pop singer-songwriter is going to spend a couple of hours singing his ... Read More
In one of the most exciting concerts of the 2011 Shanghai MISA Music Festival, Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform in Shanghai with Li Yundi, one of China’s best classical pianists. The youngest and first Chinese contestant to win the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2000, Li ... Read More
Chinese-American contemporary classical composer / artist Tan Dun returns to Zhujiajiao with his water percussion masterpiece, Water Concerto: A Drop from Heaven. Known for his Oscar-winning scores for Ang Lee’s film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou’s Hero, Tan has been fascinated by music made with organic objects ... Read More
Hailing from the city that’s given the world some of its top musicians, Viennese baritone Georg Nigl has been an avid singer since childhood. From his appointment as the soloist of the Vienna Boys’ Choir to being honored as an outstanding student of German soprano Hilde Zadek, Nigl continues ... Read More
It’s only June, but soon enough the weather will be too hot to risk the outdoors. So if you’re a music lover, don’t suffer through a music festival in the park, where your feet get filthy and your clothes drenched in sweat. Instead, head for the cool ... Read More
Coming from a family made up of both old-fashioned Warsaw royalists and die-hard Jewish Communists, Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski’s performance style combines the elegance of the Old World and the enthusiasm of the New Age. He was born in the same country as greats Frederic Chopin and Josef Hofmann ... Read More