The Monkey King, a mythical Chinese character created by Wu Cheng'en in his 16th-century novel "Journey to the West," has been portrayed in films, manga and video games. But the mischievous hero has ...

Chinese opera is an important feature of the country's art and culture, with a long history and diverse elements such as literature, music, dance and martial arts. The ninth Chinese Opera Culture Week ...

NEW YORK — The middle of August in New York usually means slim pickings for dance. So the debuts of two ballet companies at Lincoln Center on two consecutive August weekends would have stood out, even ...

Reporting from San Francisco — The world needs more Chinese opera. China needs it too. China has some 29 opera houses. Only Italy, Germany, the U.S. and Russia have more. China has more ...

Wang Yuanyuan, artistic director of Beijing Dance Theater, repairs a pointe shoe being used in her new piece Facing the Ocean. The lighthearted duet was one of two new works by Wang that premiered at ...

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school. The man deemed China's ...

The famous Chinese ballet performing group, Shanghai Ballet, gave their performance of “Butterfly Lovers,” a Chinese ancient love story, at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 28 and 29.

Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet are both finishing up successful tours to China this month: OA on its first trip there (with Moffatt Oxenbould’s Madama Butterfly), and the AB on its ninth ...

BEIJING/OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian online browser and advertising firm Opera Software, the takeover target of a Chinese consortium of Internet firms, has embedded a tool in its latest desktop app that ...

Actors perform at a previous Chinese Opera Culture Week. Chinese opera is an important feature of the country's art and culture, with a long history and diverse elements such as literature, music, ...