Tiangong Kaiwu - Dance Drama by Lu Chuan Tickets

Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre, Beijing, China

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Available Dates: 8 - 10 Jan, 2027 (3 events)

Important Info

Type: Show

City: Beijing, China

Duration: 2h

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Cast

Performers

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Creators

Director: Lu Chuan

Overview

Film director Lu Chuan’s first dance drama brings to the stage Tiangong Kaiwu, Song Yingxing’s great seventeenth-century encyclopedia of Chinese farming and crafts.

Tiangong Kaiwu is the first dance drama directed by the renowned director Lu Chuan. It takes as its subject Song Yingxing’s book Tiangong Kaiwu, described as the greatest encyclopedia of agriculture and handicrafts of seventeenth-century China.

Through the beauty of stage design, costume, music, projected images, installations, craftsmanship, technology and the land itself, the production brings out the book’s philosophy of the work of heaven and the making of things, and shows the national spirit at the roots of Chinese science and technology.

The production is presented by Jiangxi Cultural Performance Group and Beijing Dance Academy. It has toured 43 cities with more than 200 performances and has been seen by more than 100,000 people. The performance lasts about 120 minutes, including a 15-minute interval.

Venue Info

Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre - Beijing
9 South Tianqiao Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing (北京市西城区天桥南大街9号)

Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre is a theatrical complex in Xicheng District focusing on musicals, with four theatres of 300 to 1,600 seats.

Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre is a comprehensive theatrical complex that focuses on musicals, and also hosts plays, dance dramas, concerts, ballet and symphony concerts. Its Grand Theatre seats 1,600 and is described as Beijing's first professional theatre for large-scale musicals. The complex also includes a 1,000-seat medium theatre, a 400-seat small theatre and a 300-seat multifunctional theatre.