Chinese variety art at Shanghai Grand Theatre.
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The Shanghai Grand Theatre is one of the largest and best-equipped automatic stages in the world and it is a landmark for the city Shanghai.
Since the theatre opened on August 27, 1998, it has staged over 6,000 performances of operas, musicals, ballets, symphonies, chamber music concerts, spoken dramas and various Chinese operas.
It is the home of the Shanghai Opera House Company; however, the title Shanghai Opera House officially applies to only the performing company and not to the building.
- Chinese variety art refers to a wide range of acrobatic acts, balancing acts and other demonstrations of physical skill traditionally performed by a troupe in China. Many of these acts have a long history in China and are still performed today.
Source: wikipedia.org
2018 China Shanghai International Arts Festival: New Folk Music, Purple Phoenix, 30/10.
2018 China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Art Space: New Folk Music, Purple Phoenix, Shanghai City Lawn Music Square, 30/10/2018.
2018中国上海国际艺术节,艺术天空系列演出:紫凤中国女子乐团新民乐音乐会,2018-10-30,17:00,上海城市草坪音乐广场
Oriental Art Center, Shanghai - lighting by iGuzzini
In the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre in the citys Pu Dong district, which was completed in December 2004, Parisian architect Paul Andreu has created, in his own words, a radiant and transparent building, as if by magic.
The orchid-shaped Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre covers an area of some 23,350 m2. Surrounded by a large park, it is one of the largest and best known projects built in Shanghai, if not in the whole of Asia, in the past two years. It is a public cultural building funded by the City of Shanghai.
The complex accommodates three auditoria: a 1,979-seat concert hall, a theatre with seating for 1,054 people and an auditorium for chamber music, with a capacity of 330. It also accommodates annexed public structures such as an exhibition hall, music shops, a restaurant, an art library and a multimedia and training centre.
Paul Andreu wanted this melting pot of music and theatre to have strong visual impact, especially in the evening, when the audiences are inside. He also wanted to convey a sense of mystery, without constructing something enclosed, stifling or heavy.
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The Great World Shanghai / 大世界
The Great World / 大世界 is an amusement arcade and entertainment complex located in Shanghai. Built in 1917 on the corner of Avenue Edward VII (now Yan'an Road) and Yu Ya Ching Road (now Middle Xizang Road), it was the first and for a long time the most influential indoor amusement arcade in Shanghai, so much so that it spawned imitations all over China. It had gained a reputation as the “No. 1 Entertainment Venue in the Far East.”
While the traditional style entertainment offered by the Great World today faces great competition from newer forms of entertainment and electronic media, it remains an important tourist attraction popular with visitors to Shanghai from other parts of China.
Such is the influence of Great World, that its Chinese name (Da Shijie) has become the name of a locality in its vicinity, Dashijie. Dashijie Station, on Line 8 of the Shanghai Metro is located nearby and is named after Great World.
The Great World opened on 14 July 1917, the brainchild of Shanghai magnate Huang Chujiu. It was built as an integrated entertainment complex featuring amusement arcades, parlour games, music hall shows, variety shows and traditional Chinese theatre. Great World was rebuilt in 1928 in an eclectic style borrowing largely from European baroque, topped by a distinctive four-storey tower which quickly became a landmark. In 1931, Great World changed hands, bought out by another magnate, Huang Jinrong.
On 14 August 1937 it was the site of the Great World bombing, or Black Saturday. It was the second day of the Battle of Shanghai between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. Great World had thrown open its doors for refugees fleeing the fighting in the Chinese and Japanese zones of the city for the relative safety of the Shanghai International Settlement (where Great World was located). Two bombs from a damaged Republic of China Air Force bomber were accidentally released and exploded in front of Great World. The pilot, fearing the plane would crash, had intended to release the bombs into the large uninhabited space of the nearby Shanghai Race Course, but the bombs were released too early. About two thousand people, made up of shoppers, passers-by, and refugees who were standing outside Great World, were killed or injured.
After the Communist takeover of Shanghai in 1949, Great World was renamed People's Amusement Arcade, but reverted to the old name in 1958. Closed during the Cultural Revolution, in 1974 the site became the Shanghai Youth Palace. On 25 January 1981, Great World was re-established, and renamed Great World Entertainment Centre.
The basic layout of the complex has remained the same since the 1928 rebuilding. While the entertainment options have been updated over the years (with motion pictures early on and karaoke more recently, for example), some elements remain the same. One legendary feature is the series of distorting mirrors near the entrance, which have provided simple entertainment to visitors for close to a century.
In its heyday, Great World's main attractions were vaudeville, various regional forms of traditional Chinese opera, and Chinese folk art forms. It was also famous for the twelve distorting magic mirrors imported from the Netherlands in the lobby area.
Writing of his visit in the mid-1930s, Hollywood film director Josef von Sternberg described, On the first floor were gaming tables, singsong girls, magicians, pick-pockets, slot machines, fireworks, birdcages, fans, stick incense, acrobats, and ginger. One flight up were… actors, crickets and cages, pimps, midwives, barbers, and earwax extractors. The third floor had jugglers, herb medicines, ice cream parlors, a new bevy of girls, their high collared gowns slit to reveal their hips, and (as a) novelty, several rows of exposed (Western) toilets. The fourth floor had shooting galleries, fan-tan tables, … massage benches, … dried fish and intestines, and dance platforms. The fifth floor featured girls with dresses slit to the armpits, a stuffed whale, storytellers, balloons, peep shows, masks, a mirror maze, two love letter booths with scribes who guaranteed results, rubber goods, and a temple filled with ferocious gods and joss sticks. On the top floor and roof of that house of multiple joys a jumble of tightrope walkers slithered back and forth, and there were seesaws, Chinese checkers, mahjongg, … firecrackers, lottery tickets, and marriage brokers.
Now there is theater, music hall, Guinness hall, movie hall, video hall, magic world, dancing hall, KTV, tea house and ski field and so on. There is also the new Shanghai flavor snack corridor, restaurant and boutique market and so on. The Shanghai Great World is a playing center with entertainment, performance, viewing, food and sports and so on.
Shanghai Trip Day 3 - Haining Leather City, Wuzhen Water Village, Oriental Salt Lake Resort!
#Acevengers is back at it again!
Day three of our Shanghai trip, and the first destination that we went was the HCLC (Haining China Leather City).
The city of Haining is home to the country’s largest leather industry. Located in the southern region of the Yangtze River Delta, near Hangzhou and Shanghai, Haining has many convenient facilities and large markets and has greatly developed its leather industry. The high quality leather has earned it the name of Leather Capital of China.
Haining Leather City an area of 160,000 sq m. The main part consists of four sections – on the first floor visitors can buy suitcases and leather ware, the second floor leather clothing, the third floor furs and luxury leather ware and the fourth floor the catering center. There were more than 5,000 business rooms in total.
Second destination was the Wuzhen Water Village. Wuzhen Water Town, lying in the northern part of Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, is a typical ancient town in southern China. It is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from both Hangzhou and Suzhou, and 140 kilometers (87 miles) from Shanghai.
As one of the top six ancient towns in the southern region of the Yangtze River, Wuzhen Water Town boasts more than six thousand years of history and has always been a fertile land with abundant rice, fish and silk. It preserves the ancient appearance well and oozes charm of the water town itself. The small town, with houses made of black bricks and gray tiles contrasting sharply with the white walls, making it appear like a Chinese ink wash drawing. Stone bridges are seen here and there. Small boats with black awnings are floating on the murmuring rivers. Whether wandering along the riverside or strolling in the lanes paved with blue flagstones, you will be deeply impressed by the picturesque scenery and slow lifestyle.
Our last stop for the day was the Oriental Salt Lake Resort, located in the holy land of Taoism of China — Maoshan Mountain of Jintan. The park is divided into several themes, namely geology, religion, and culture. The park has a kilometer-long Taoist street, where you can visit various kinds of exhibition halls and see wonderful folk performances. At night, you can go to a waterfront bar and experience the night in the mountains. The Xiquan Pagoda offers a place to worship multiple protective gods. There, you can pray for good luck and make wishes. Rafting at the underground palace of the Kun garden is a great choice during the hot summer times.
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The Shanghai Jews. Michael Blumenthal, Rachel DeWoskin, and Civitas Ensemble
The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community. Faculty member and novelist Rachel DeWoskin hosts a keynote by W. Michael Blumenthal, former Secretary of the Treasury and a Holocaust survivor who grew up in Japanese-occupied war-time Shanghai. Blumenthal delivers a keynote on the life of a community of more than 18,000 Jewish refugees who survived WWII in Shanghai, identifying intersections between that past and our present context.
Following his keynote is a concert performed by Civitas Ensemble's violinist Yuan-Qing Yu; cellist Kenneth Olsen; clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom; and pianist Winston Choi, of classical music composed by Jewish refugees and Chinese composers inspired by collaborations with refugees or by the musical legacies of the Shanghai Jews. Yuan-Qing Yu introduces the pieces and composers, telling stories of their connections to Shanghai, the war, and each other. She plays on a plays on a bow stamped with a Star of David and believed to date from WWII and soon to be added to a touring collection described in the documentary Violins of Hope. The pieces Civitas Ensemble performs here include Alexander Tcherepnin's Selections from Piano Etudes, Ode for Cello and Piano, and Sonata in one moment for clarinet and piano as well as Otto Joachim's L'Eclosion for Solo Piano; Jacob Avshalomoff's Sonatine for clarinet and piano; Wolfgang Fraenkel's Variations and Fantasies on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg Sang Tong's Fantasia for Cello and Piano Fantasia; and Ding Shan-De's Piano Trio.
W. Michael Blumenthal's keynote was made possible by support from the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; The Franke Institute; The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS); the Departments of Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and History; the Program on Creative Writing; and a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The concert by Civitas Ensemble was sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
Xinjiang Cultural Dance in Shanghai China
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Masterpieces of Chinese Music: A Musical Performance by Music from China
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The rich sonorities and compelling melodies of Chinese music are invoked on string instruments consisting of the erhu and related two-string fiddles, pipa (lute), zheng (long, plucked zither), ruan (moon guitar), and yangqin (hammered dulcimer). The ensemble Music from China performs masterworks from the Chinese classical and folk repertoire with an array of stylistic variations, timbral colors, and musical imagery. The program includes such immortal classical compositions as Ambush on Ten Sides, a powerful re-creation of a third-century battle scene, and the romance with nature of A Moonlit River in Spring. Folk music selections span China's broad landscape, from the urban sophistication of Shanghai and Guangzhou (Canton) to the vast expanse of the Mongolian steppes.
The Shanghai Museum
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Arcades in Shanghai
I was in a shopping centre in the undergrounds in Shanghai, when I found a HUGE arcade room. This is only a part of it. It's like 4 corridors like this one, plus billards, dards, and many others games.
People asked for location. It was a little bit tricky to found (for me). It was on People's Park. Once there, I suggest you to ask for it to any local young guy, in the subway's shoppings corridors.
Anyway, I'll tell you how I found them:
I've found an entrance to an underground shopping center, located at eastern corner of Renmin Ave. I think it's the 1930 Folk Street shopping center, but I'm not sure:
In baidu:
or search for:
黄浦区人民大道100号(城市规划馆下)
(Google maps is not so good in China.)
The entrance was downstairs in the east side of the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center (the squared one). THIS ONE: ( )
Inside the cell is painted as a sky, and everything is decorated as a street. Very cool. But here is where the maze begins!!
There you'll find several corridors, a little bit tricky to get orientated.. Once you are in, you'll be in a corner. As far as I remember, I think I went to the right and followed that corridor until the next intersection (T form) (Here there's no more sky paint in the cell, its more simplest, like a different commercial complex. That's why I think there might be another entrance) Then I went to the right again, and then I just walked straight a long way by that corridor (you'll cross several intersections). The arcade room it's at the end at some point.
Regards and good luck!
I'm pretty sure that there is another entrance, but I don't know.
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