The 30th Macao Arts Festival will be held in May with the theme “a tribute to classics,” presenting a variety of performances and outreach activities.
Organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, this year’s festival will kick off with the performance “Vertikal,” jointly produced by French choreographer Mourad Merzouki and hip-hop troupe CCN Créteil & Val-de- Marne / Cie Käfig.
During the performance, 10 dancers perform in the air with the support of ropes, generating choreographic elements and producing contemporary hip-hop sequences.
The dance show “Rain” by Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her dance company Rosas, in collaboration with contemporary musician Steve Reich, will be performed in Macau 18 years after its debut.
To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Lao She, the play “Mr. Ma and Son,” adapted from Lao She’s classic novel, will be presented with a combination of Beijing-style wit and English humour, reflecting on the exchange and collision between Chinese and Western cultures.
The play “Karl Valentin Kabarett” by Teatro do Eléctrico from Portugal includes several short pieces written by Karl Valentin, a leading comedian who is hailed as the “Charlie Chaplin of Germany,” and will be brought to the city as a theatrical performance featuring music, dance and drama.
This year, the festival is presenting a special closing performance, “The Soul of Macao.” The Cantonese opera was adapted by national first-class playwright Li Xinhua from an original play written by a Macao writer, is jointly presented by actors from Macau and the Foshan Cantonese Opera Troupe.
The closing performance celebrates the 10th anniversary of the inscription of Cantonese opera on the “Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”. LV
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