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Here are the highlights of the Croisements Festival this year:
1. Quatuor Prima Vista, one of Lang Lang's three favorites
For its premier in China, the Quatuor Prima Vista invites music lovers and film buffs todiscover the universe of film-concerts with two silent film programs. The four musicians willaccompany Wu Yonggang's film 'The Divine' and four short burlesque Charlie Chaplin andBuster Keaton films with music composed by Baudime Jam. This is a rare opportunity toexperience cinema accompanied by live music.
Dongguan: May 2, 20:00, Dongguan Theater Culture Weekend
Beijing: May 9, at 14:30 and 19:30, Beijing Concert Hall
Dalian: May 8 (prog. 2), Dalian Theater
Suzhou: May 10 (prog. 1), Suzhou Culture and Arts Center
Shanghai: May12, Poly Theater
Xiamen: May 14 (prog. 2), Banlam Grand Theater
Hangzhou: May 16 (prog. 2), Grand Theater
2. 12th French Film Panorama, one of Feng Xiaogang's three favorites
For the 12th edition of the French Film Panorama, UniFrance films, in partnership with theFrench Embassy in China, will take Panorama on tour to the cities of Chengdu, Chongqing,Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenyang and Xi'an. This year's Panorama includes ten feature-lengthfilms and a selection of short French films, selected to offer Chinese filmgoers an eclecticrange of new films, reflecting the diversity of cinematographic genres of French cinema. Well-known French film stars, such as Juliette Binoche, Sophie Marceau, François Damiens andPatrick Bruel will star, but so will up-and-coming stars like Vincent Lacoste, Louane Emeraand Reda Kateb.
3. The Afternoon of a Foehn Version 1, one of Meng Jinghui's three favorites
A show for all ages, The Afternoon of a Foehn Version 1 is the first part of the ‘Pièces deVent' trilogy by the Non Nova Company. The main character in this surprising play is a plasticbag. An object devoid of humanitybecomes a gracious and appealing character, evolving withthe movement of the air and to the music of Debussy. And what if we humans, anchored tothe ground, could escape gravity and let ourselves be transported with waltzes in the air?
Beijing: June 12, 13 and 14, Penghao Theater
Shenyang: June 16 and 17, Shengjing Grand Theater
Shanghai: June 23 and 24, 403 International Art Center
4. Juveniles – French Miracle Tour, one of Shen Lihui's three favorites
Juveniles brought out their famous song We are Young with the Parisien label Kitsuné in2011, a heady refrain sung in a post-modern croon. The duo from Rennes refined its idealisticpop with a debut album produced by Yuksek, developed to treat troubled souls andaccompany sleepless nights. It delivers utopic and sensual pop which dreams eternal andcontinuously plays with fire. Juveniles express the different states of youth which, in onefraction of a second, can pass from total bliss (We are Young, Fantasy) to absolute agony(Washed Away).
Beijing: April 28, 29, 30, Sound of the Xity, Yugong Yishan
Jinan: May 2, Alliance française in Jinan
Shanghai: May 2, Shanghai Strawberry Festival
Xi'an: May 16, Xi'an Strawberry Festival
Chengdu: May 17, Sino-Ocean Taikooli
5. Light!, one of Zeng Fanzhi's three favorites
This exhibition, neither demonstrative nor theoretical, takes a sensory approach, involving thepoetics of the visible and of that which creates it - that is, of light as creator. The light alsoreveals violence, the vagaries of age, the deconstructions that obliterate it, the fault lines thatcrisscross it, the troubles. It does this in an unspeakable way that also searches andcaresses.
Beijing: April 10–24, Espace Xin Dong Cheng for contemporary art
Shanghai:June 1–July 1, Minsheng Museum
6. F(aune), one of Jin Xing's three favorites
David Drouard's choreography is a solo dance with a giant bear, a disjointed puppet thatderives its animalistic force from the dancer's steps. David Drouard has taken greatinspiration from L'après-midi d'un faune (The afternoon of a faun), the famous choreographyby the Russian dancer Nijinsky, transforming the theme of wild seducer into contemporaryman questioning his bestial side. The man in F(aune) returns to his primitive and spiritualroots which drive him, in a dramatization owing a lot to visual arts.
8. Centenary of Roland Barthes' birth, one of Jiang Fangzhou's three favorites
On the occasion of the centenary of Roland Barthes' birth, you are invited to rediscover thethinking – critical, singular, rich and copious – of a man who was a language and literaturetheorist, an intellectual and a writer. Workshops on new Chinese Mythologies, Fu Lei trainingfor translators, conferences, seminars and debates with three French specialists on the worksof the great man will shape the 'Roland Barthes Week'.
Beijing: May 9-13, French Institute in Beijing
Chengdu: May 13 and 14, People's Theater
Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Dongguan – Dates and locations to be confirmed
7. Food Design, one of Jiang Qiong'er's three favorites
The exhibition Food Design is an encounter between eight French designers and threeChinese artists whose principal medium is food. It is a new approach to food seen through theconceptual processes of design that can be experienced in different ways: installation,performance, video, models etc. The projects are varied collaborations with agro-industry,catering and chefs, events, luxury brands but also modern art and research. This exhibitionprompts reflection on the way we think about the food of tomorrow. The exhibition’s curator isthe designer and lecturer Marc Bretillot, a pioneer of Food Design in Europe.
Beijing: April 10-24, Today Art Museum
Chengdu: April 31 - May 10, France-China Cultural Exchange Space at the CITIC
Wuhan: May 16 - June 14, New World Center
Shanghai: June 20 - September 1, Shanghai International Design Center
9. Visual System, Zhang Peili's three favourites
Visual System presents VS-CARRE-X, tableaux that are made up of live, moving and/orpulsating pixels, both organic and kinetic, while being comprised of a hyper-regular geometricframe. Their specific geometry means they diffuse an intense indirect light, which isnevertheless soft and imbued with a unique texture. These panels move in real-time tooriginal music that is a mix of traditional Chinese cultural music and electronic sounds.
Guangzhou: April 28, The Canton Place
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