When the yearning for home intensifies, cultural identity unfolds. Creating a new contemporary dance language inspired by classical Chinese dance, Beloved Emoh rediscovers 'home' through different perspectives and cultural backgrounds.

Conceived and choreographed by Yuyu Rau
Material devised and performed by Angelina Jandolo, Marie Chabert, Raul Ibanez
Live musician – Cheng-Ying Chuang
Composer - Barbara De Biasi
Lighting Designer - Sammi Fang
Concept –Jih-Wen Yeh and Yuyu Rau

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Artists’ Pitches for the Chinese New Year Celebrations on Sunday 29th January 2012

2012 welcomes the auspicious Year of the Dragon and Sunday 29th January 2012 will see London celebrate in style with a one-day festival featuring a Dragon parade through the streets of Soho, performances on a spectacular stage in Trafalgar Square as well as the lion dances throughout the day in Chinatown.



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5 – 8 young Chinese men needed for Plymouth shoot, 3-6 January 2012
In April 2012, Plymouth will be holding a cross-city exhibition titled Sinopticon, (www.sinopticon.org) it will feature works by international artists who are looking at relations between China and the UK (historically and contemporary). The artist Erika Tan will be making a new film work for the exhibition. She is now looking for a group of young Chinese men to feature in the work which will be set in Saltram House, Plymouth (see photo). If you think you fit the description below and would be interested in participating, please get in touch for more information about dates, expectations, fees, etc.

To apply please send an email and photo of yourself with any information about experience, or get in touch for more information. Email: erikatan@aol.com.

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Following successful premieres in Sweden, Singapore, and the USA this summer, TAO Dance Theater 2011 World Tour continues to New York City, Amsterdam, Birmingham, and London this fall!

Tour Dates 巡演日程

November 3, 4 / 11月3,4日

NYC premiere in “Fall for Dance” Festival at New York City Center
舞团纽约首演在纽约都市剧院的秋季舞蹈节


November 8, 9 / 11月8,9日

European premiere of co-commissioned work “2” at Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam
"２"欧洲首演在荷兰阿姆斯特丹贝尔维尤剧场

November 11,15,16 / 11月11,15,16日

UK Company Premiere at
DanceXchange, Birmingham (Nov 11) &
Lilian Baylis Studio Sadler's Wells
(Nov 15,16)
舞团的英国首演在
伯明翰DanceXchange（11月11日）与
伦敦沙德勒之井剧院（11月15,16日）

Photo: Lars Ake Stomfelt

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The brand new hip hop dance theatre show 'Some Like It Hip Hop' opens at the Peacock Theatre on the 20th October and will run until 19th November.
It's ZooNation new show who are behind their previous success show "Into The Hoods". Into The Hoods was the first hip hop show to play in a West End theatre plus it was also the longest running dance show in West End.
I'm one of the choreographers of Some Like It Hip Hop and I also play one of the main characters.

You can get your tickets here http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/ZooNation-Some-Like-It-Hip-Hop

Watch the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Vlh1aSiAE

Go to the Some Like It Hip Hop website http://slihh.zoonation.co.uk/

Hope to see you there!

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COURSE LEADER: BA IN WORLD PERFORMANCE

East 15 Acting School, University of Essex

The BA in World Performance prepares students for a career in performance and related fields and offers applied performance skills and contextual studies covering a diverse range of forms and styles of performance from across the world. The post-holder will coordinate the teaching and administration of the course.

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DANCERS FOR LORD MAYOR’S SHOW

Sinman Dance Company is looking for 8 professional dancers to join the coming project.

The newly choreographed contemporary dance will be featured in the parade as float in Lord Mayor’s Show for the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office. It is a yearly outdoor festival event and broadcast live on the BBC. It has an audience of 500,000 people on the street here.

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Chinatown Arts Space Creative Director David Tse discusses the subject of Arts vs the Professions in an article in the May edition of Hong Kong's Baccarat magazine. The article is available to access via a PDF file - click the link below to view/download.

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The Chinese Visual Festival is a twin art festival dedicated to promoting Chinese independent documentary making partnering 10 documentaries shown at Birkbeck College and London South Bank University with a video art and photographic exhibition at 17 Dorset Square, Marylebone.

Visit our website www.chinesevisualfestival.org for events' detail.

Partner: RSP Planet Design Studios, Birkbeck, Charing Cross Library, Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou Documentary Association,CNEX, CDR

Catering: Empress of Sichuan, Dumpling King, See Woo

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1) 22/6 to 31/7 Enter Stage Right: Costumes from the Beijing Opera – Admission Free to this exhibition

http://www.amc.org.uk/enter-stage-right

2) 25/6 – 26/6 Kunqu Opera Dan Voice and Movements Course

http://www.amc.org.uk/asian-music-education/kunqu-opera-dan-voice-and-movements-course

3) 29/6 Calligraphy with Ruijun Hu

http://www.amc.org.uk/asian-music-education/chinese-calligraphy-workshop-ruijun-hu

4) Thurs 21/7 – An Evening of Beijing and Kunqu Opera: ‘The 4 Faces of the Dan in Beijing and Kunqu Opera’ – Show start time: 7.45 pm

This is an entirely different programme to what we have presented at SOAS on 7/4 2011. There will be English and Chinese surtitles as usual with our performances. The link to online booking is shown on both websites below.

http://www.amc.org.uk/asian-music-concerts/evening-beijing-and-kunqu-opera

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/an-evening-of-beijing-and-kunq-59162