Art beat (June 1-9)

Lost ballet revived

The National Center for the Performing Arts will present the Staatsballett Berlin's version of La Peri (The Flower of Immorality), with music by composer Friedrich Burgmuller and choreography by Vladimir Malakhov, 100 years after the ballet was last performed. The original version of La Peri was performed at the Opera de Paris in 1843, but then faded from public attention. Few of the original music scores and materials remain. The records of the dance movements have been lost. Malakhov, the artistic director, had to create his own version of La Peri, after drawing inspiration from old graphics and a picture album of former ballet stars.

7:30 pm, June 8-9, Opera House,

National Center for the Performing

Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng

district, Beijing. 010-6655-0000.

- Han Bingbin

People's artist

The Art Gallery of Chinese Academy of Oil Painting is presenting a solo exhibition of Su Gaoli. Su once studied at China's Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in the former Soviet Union. The 76-year-old's works have strong characteristics of the 1960s and 1970s, when the arts frequently depicted labor scenes. He did a lot of onsite paintings in the countryside. Among the more than 100 exhibited works, landscapes and portraits of Chinese farmers reflect Su's great humanistic concern.

10 am-6 pm, until June 9. Art Gallery of Chinese Academy of Oil Painting,

1704 Wenhua Yishu West Street,

Gaobeidian, Chaoyang district, Beijing.

010-8773-9327.

- Zhang Zixuan