Traditional bamboo flute attracts new admirers with its melodious tone, Wang Ru reports.Often accompanying the guqin, a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument, the xiao, a traditional vertical bamboo flute with a relatively light sound, was often viewed as a foil. But with its lon...

Youth Has Another Name, a new acrobatic show produced by Hunan Provincial Performance and Arts Group, was staged at Poly Theater in Beijing on May 23.The show features a diversity of art forms, such as acrobatics, dance, music and visual arts. With four chapters, the show depicts the contemporary yo...

Chinese dancer-choreographer Wang Yabin's latest work,Swan — A Different Story, premiered in Lucerne, Switzerland, on May 5.Commissioned by the Lucerne Theater, the dance production featured artists of the theater, who fulfilled Wang's choreographic vision onstage.The Lucerne Symphony...

In 2001, when Kunqu Opera was listed as one of the masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO, Yang Fengyi, artistic director and head of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater, traveled with her performers to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris to witness the historic moment.They...

Twelve years from the launch of the Peking Opera Film Project, a program teaming up prestigious artists and top troupes to produce cinematic remakes of repertoires has recently released its second batch of four new movies at the China National Film Museum.The four films, titledSilang Visits Hi...

From centuries of being passed down through mentorship, to the modern day, when the youth edition ofThe Peony Pavilionignited fervor among university students, Kunqu Opera's history has been closely connected with the continued effort of generations of young people.As China places a...