Cirkopolis by Cirque Eloize

Date: July 3-9 - 7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater

Price: 80-680 yuan

With Cirkopolis, Cirque Eloize presents a show that combines the worlds of circus, dance and theatre. In the heart of a stern and imposing city in appearance, giant gears and dark portals symbolize a mechanism that crushes individuality. Performing within an inventive stage design and accompanied by an original musical score and video projections, 10 acrobats and multidisciplinary artists rebel against monotony, reinvent themselves and challenge the limits of the factory-city. In a world where fantasy provokes reality, the veil of anonymity and solitude is lifted and replaced by bursts of color. Cirkopolis unfolds scene by scene like an elemental universe, with sculptural imagery: jugglers brave the space, a contortionist is lifted by her companions in a surge of inspiration, and aerial artists defy the height of the skyscrapers. Experiencing Cirkopolis is also stepping into the dance of the Cyr wheel, dreading the audacity of the German wheel and discovering the candor of a man who dreams only of dancing. "Cirkopolis was imagined as a crossroads - between imagination and reality, between individuality and community, between limits and possibilities.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Light

Date: until Aug 27 - 9 am-4:30 pm,

Venue: Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing.

Cui Xiuwen is considered a leading contemporary Chinese artist for embracing a feminine perspective in her figurative paintings and vanguard video works. Her recent creations, though, have become more abstract, engaging a broader scope of thinking in terms of religion and philosophy. At her current show, Cui arranges the works in four sections, each exploring one dimension of a person's existence: physical being, heart, soul and destiny. She adopts a simple color scheme using such colors as red, green, yellow and blue, which she believes encapsulate enormous energies that enrich the vision of humans.

The main exhibition hall displays Cui's other interactive installations, which produce effects of light and seek to engage viewers in a process of "soul searching". The exhibition is presented by the Jillian Sackler international artists project. It was launched in 2013 by Jillian Sackler, widow of Arthur M. Sackler, an American physician and collector, who proposed and sponsored the building of the Sackler museum. The project brings to the venue an artist' solo exhibition every year.

Contact: 010-6275-9784