Shows

Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games

Date: May 3-6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games is a spectacular new staging of the much-loved traditional master piece. The show stars James Keegan, Morgan Comer, Mathew Smith, Cathal Keaney, Fergal Keaney and Andras Kren as the "Lords of the Dance" and is choreographed and directed by Michael Flatley. "I'm blown away by the remarkable talent and abilities of the great cast we've gathered" says Michael. With all the visceral precision and thrills of the original, Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games features new staging, new costumes and choreography. With 40 of the world's most outstanding young performers directed by Michael, and new music by composer Gerard Fahy, this latest iteration combines the best of tradition with all the excitement of new music and dance.

Maximilian Hecker "Sea of Silence" 2018 Tour

Date: April 29 - 8 pm

Venue: Guangzhou Friendship Theater

Maximilian Hecker is a German musician from Berlin, known for ethereal pop or dream pop music, similar to Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Tom Baxter and Nick Drake. He himself describes his songs as melancholy pop hymns. Hecker grew up in Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia. He learned to play the piano, the drums and the guitar and did his A levels at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Bunde in 1997. Having finished his alternative civilian service at Klinikum Schwabing in Munich, he started training in nursing practice at the hospital Charite in Berlin in 1999. Apart from his activities as a trainee nurse, Hecker continued pursuing his musical hobby busking in the area of Hackescher Markt in Berlin-Mitte. Thus he came in contact with Berlin's music and cultural scene. In 2000, the demo of his song, Cold Wind Blowing, was used for the score of German director Esther Gronenborn's movie alaska.de. Soon after that, the Berlin based record company Kitty-yo, having released the movie's soundtrack, offered Hecker a record dea.