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and explosive moves for an
evening of awe-inspiring, fully
interactive hip-hop drama.
Known from MTV’s Americas
Best Dance Crew Season 4,
Rhythm City has swept the east
coast in the United States and
has also ventured out on inter-
national tours, collaborating
with celebrities such as
Beyonce and Ariana Grande.
They are one of the first US
dance companies to headline
and perform their own tours,
hitting over 100 cities in China.
They also had the opportunity
to share the stage with Jackie
Chan and be televised by Chi-
nese networks.Fantasies and Reflections
When: Aug 22, 7:15 pm
Where: Shanghai Grand Theater
Harpist Lenka Petrovic won
the 20th International Harp
Contest in Israel last year, the
first Serbian to do so.
A passionate soloist,
Petrovic performs a mixture of
the traditional harp repertoire
alongside transcriptions of
non-harp works, showcasing
the versatility of the instru-
ment.
She has performed concerts
with the Haifa Symphony
Orchestra, the Summer Phil-
harmonic Orchestra of Indiana
University, and the Symphonic
Orchestra of the Academy of
Arts in Novi Sad in Serbia.
She has performed under
the batons of leading conduc-
tors such as John Adams, Jane
Glover, Michail Jurowski, Jef-
frey Malarsky, David Robert-
son, Robert Spano, Patrick
Summers and Emmanuel Vil-
laume.Snow Patrol: Acoustic Live in
Beijing 2019
When: Aug 21, 7:30 pm
Where: Tango Live Beijing
Over a 25-year career, Snow
Patrol have carved out a unique
place.
Since their 1998 debut,
Songs for Polarbears, which
Pitchfork hailed as “an
impressive piece of work”, their
melancholy anthems of heart-
break and separation have
mended hearts.
They emerged as heartsore
musical prophets in the shadow
of grunge and shallow pop,
striking a chord in the minds,
memories and hearts of listen-
ers over six groundbreaking,
confessional albums.
Fresh on the heels of their
stadium tour with Ed Sheeran
last year, Snow Patrol under-
took a 24-date European head-
lining tour and a 21-date North
American tour.Kids Show 2 (Djembe)
Samajam
When: Aug 23 and 24, 7:30 pm
Where: Zhejiang People’s Great
Hall, Hangzhou
Canadian performance
troupe Samajam has intro-
duced a show for families, cre-
ating musical happenings with
the help of their audience.
Everyone in the audience
receives a “music bag” which
contains drumsticks, tambou-
rines, a musical tube and a
djembe.
Kids and the entire family
learn and play with the instru-
ments, as they are led by per-
formers on stage.
Djembe is an African drum, a
representative instrument of
the Manding culture in West
Africa.On Aug 7, 1984, the Chinese wom-
en’s volleyball team won gold at the
Olympics in Los Angeles, as seen in
the item from China Daily.
It was the third major victory in
four years for the team after winning
the 1981 World Cup and the 1982
World Championships.
The Chinese players struck Olym-
pic gold again at the 2004 Athens
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the 70th anniversary of the found-
ing of New China.
Shaolin monks
practice kung fu in
humid conditions
on Sunday in
Dengfeng, Henan
province, ahead of
the Shaolin Zen
Music Show.
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titles in 1981 and 1985. She led the
national team to gold against the US
in 1984.Games by overcoming Russia.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, China
won the title for the third time,
defeating Serbia 3-1 in the final and
defending champions Brazil in the
quarterfinal.
The team has netted four World
Cup victories and two World Champi-
onships.
In the latest world rankings for
women’s volleyball, China was in sec-
ond place behind Serbia.
The team qualified for the 2020
Olympics following a 3-0 triumph
over Turkey in the Pool B qualifying
tournament in Ningbo, Zhejiang
province, on Sunday.
“Winning the Olympic ticket is our
first step. As we will face stronger
teams in Tokyo, we must be strongerourselves,” said Team
China coach Lang
Ping.
The United States,
Brazil, Serbia, Russia
and Italy also booked
tickets to the Tokyo
Games over the week-
end while Japan has
qualified as host.
Lang, better known
as “Jenny” in the West,
also led the US wom-
en’s national team to
the silver medal at the
2008 Beijing Olym-
pics.
She was a member of the Chinese
team that won the World Champion-
ships in 1982, as well as World CupThis Day, That Year
years
ontronic plants embraced galleries ...
as well as bars, restaurants and
fashion workshops’’.
But the 2016 article, describing
the “rise and fall” of the art zone,
said as investors moved in, rents
went up and artists moved out. By
2016, the zone had “nothing to do
with arts,” at least in the same way,
Pace Gallery media liaison Zhao
Xiaomeng said.
I still think the zone is a fun place
to dine and walk around. Interest-
ing public art and the edgy archi-
tecture remain.
Coincidentally, what happened at
the zone bears a resemblance to
issues facing my hometown in the
state of Florida in the United States.
Lake Worth Beach, about a two-
hour drive north of Miami, tracesits history to a post office set up in
1889, when South Florida’s popula-
tion was tiny. A few decades later,
Palm Beach Farms Co was selling 2
hectare farms in the county’s interi-
or for $250 with 58-square-meter
lots thrown in free near the beach.
Cottages were built on the small
lots and Town of Lake Worth was
born, becoming one of the thriving
small communities along the Atlan-
tic Ocean. (Voters recently changed
the city’s name to Lake Worth
Beach.)
In the latter part of the last centu-
ry, the area’s road network grew
and prosperous new suburbs and
shopping malls sprouted. Tradi-
tional downtowns started to wilt,
and some downtown neighbor-
hoods suffered. Lake Worth was introuble by the 1980s and early
1990s.
Coastal towns began to look for
ways to revive their urban centers.
Nearby Delray Beach also was fac-
ing the same problems, though its
downtown still had a delightfully
quaint feel.
Since then, millions of dollars
have been poured into Delray’s
redevelopment, and many historic
buildings have been saved. It’s a
beautiful city. But Delray has gone
very upscale, with trendy, expensive
eateries and bars lining downtown
streets and sky-high property prices.
There’s a feeling in Lake Worth
Beach that its neighbor, in succeed-
ing, has in some ways lost part of its
soul — similar to criticisms of Bei-
jing’s 798 art district.While Lake Worth Beach wants
progress, many residents don’t want
to lose the city’s quirky, artistic side
and its friendly, hometown feeling.
You often hear residents say they
“don’t want to be Delray Beach”.
Lake Worth Beach has made
progress — many cottages have
been preserved and renovated as
living in a walkable city has become
trendy. A beautiful book about
these historic homes, The Cottages
of Lake Worth, was a finalist for a
national book award this year.
The Lake Worth Street Painting
Festival is the world’s largest free
event of its kind, organizers say, and
the city’s Palm Beach Pride Festival
is one of the area’s best known. New
multistory housing has gone up
downtown.Problems remain, including pov-
erty and crime in some areas. There
is a lot of squabbling about the
city’s future direction. The historic
Gulfstream Hotel sits empty. At the
beach, a beautiful municipal swim-
ming pool that needs refurbishing
is closed.
But Lake Worth Beach remains a
beautiful place, one that will hope-
fully continue to improve without
losing its heart.Contact the writer at
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chinadaily.com.cnUS hometown can learn from Beijing’s 798 art district
An old factory district is one of
my favorite places in Beijing. The
factory and warehouse buildings
there, designed in the 1950s in the
Bauhaus style,
were abandoned
and, in the mid-
1990s, artists
began using them
for cheap studio
space. By the turn
of the century, the
798 Contemporary
Art Zone had blos-
somed.
Interiors were
renovated, but the iconic, industrial
look remained, giving the place an
edgy, genuine feel. China Daily
wrote that the zone “reached a pin-
nacle in 2005, when the old elec-
Matt
Prichard
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When: Aug 7-10, 12-17, 19-24
and 26-31, 7:30 pm; Aug 11, 18,
25 and Sept 1, 2 pm
Where: National Theater of
China, Beijing
War Horse, the hit stage pro-
duction from the United King-
dom’s National Theater is
galloping into Beijing. The Chi-
nese-language version is pro-
duced by the British company
and the National Theater of
China.
The National Theater has
already been working with the
Chinese cast on the techniques
needed to move the impressive
life-size horse puppets that
make up the show.
War Horse is based on Mich-
ael Morpurgo’s children’s book
following the tale of Joey the
farm horse, who is sold to the
British army during World War I.
Since its first performance at
the National Theater in London
in 2007, War Horse has become
an international smash hit, cap-
turing the imagination of mil-
lions of people around the
world.A Leaf in the Storm
When: Aug 23, 7:30 pm
Where: Daning Theater, Shanghai
A Leaf in the Storm is
inspired by Lin Yutang’s novel
of the same title. Choreogra-
pher Wang Yuanyuan takes as
her point of departure the fate
of ordinary people, and
explores the vicissitudes of the
times, and the spirit thereof.
Against the backdrop of
catastrophes and consterna-
tion, the sensitive protagonist
finds herself constantly in fear,
even while in love.
A tragic panorama is thus
laced with a love story of yearn-
ing. Personal redemption
amidst bloodbaths collides and
blends with sublimation of
emotions in presentation of A
Leaf in the Storm.Popopolska!
When: Aug 16-18, 7:30 pm
Where: National Center for the
Performing Arts, Beijing
Four “Toy Music” artists edit
four short Polish animations,
and deliver an impromptu per-
formance of a melancholy, live-
ly and illusive soundtrack.
In addition to the traditional
toy piano, xylophone, vibra-
phone and flute, unexpected
musical instruments, such as
the accordion and old gramo-
phone, small electric guitar and
the ukulele are also added.
In these animations, the
roles include a striped elephant
with his friends, a dreaming
boy and a multilingual puppy.
The artists allow the sound-
track to let these lifelike roles
engage in dialogue with the
audience.Cosmological Warrior
When: Aug 18, 7:15 pm
Where: Shanghai Oriental Art
Center
New York City hip-hop dance
company Rhythm City is com-
ing to Shanghai bringing their
award-winning choreographySichuan hero captain set to land on screens
The Chinese Pilot, star-
ring actor Zhang Hanyu,
is about Liu Chuanjian,
the captain who last
year saved 119 passen-
gers on a Sichuan Air-
lines flight when the
windshield shattered
and his copilot was
sucked halfway out of
the cockpit over the Tibetan Plateau. It will hit theaters on Sept
- Liu was hailed as the “hero captain of China’s civil aviation”.
He was an instructor with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force
No 2 Flight College in Sichuan province for 10 years before he
joined the airline in 2006.
Lottery ticket sales slump 40 percent in June
Lottery ticket sales fell for a fifth straight month in June, slump-
ing 40.7 percent year-on-year, official data showed. Sales totaled
35 billion yuan ($5 billion) in June, down from 35.5 billion yuan in
May, according to the Ministry of Finance. Sales of welfare lottery
tickets declined 16.6 percent year-on-year to about 16 billion
yuan, while sports lottery sales plunged more than 52 percent to
18.9 billion yuan. Under China’s lottery management rules, mon-
ey from lottery ticket sales is used for administrative expenses,
public welfare projects and prize money.
Animal park to open at night
Shanghai Wild Animal Park will stay open
at night — until 9 pm — from Thursday,
allowing visitors to explore the magic and
glamour of the animal world after sunset.
Many wild animals are active during the
night as they sleep in the day, and visitors
only get to see nocturnal creatures and
some fierce animals in a state of slumber
in daytime, the park operator said.
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Weibo pageRankings: Provinces
show dramatic growth
Yunnan province posted the
strongest GDP growth among
the provinces and regions,
climbing 9.2 percent year-on-
year in the first half of this year,
according to official economic
data. GDP growth in 15 provin-
ces and regions was higher
than the national growth rate of
6.3 percent, namely Yunnan,
Guizhou, Jiangxi, Fujian, Anhui,
Hubei, Sichuan, Henan, Shanxi,
Hunan, Zhejiang, Hebei and
Jiangsu provinces, the Ningxia
Hui autonomous region and
Guangdong province.Travel: Cliff hotel
design on the edge
A Turkish architectural firm has
proposed a hotel built into a
Norwegian cliff featuring a
swimming pool with views
below. Hayri Atak ArchitecturalDesign Studio has released its
proposal for the Cliff Concept
Boutique Hotel in southern Nor-
way. It will be situated on a
600-meter cliff. It features a
viewing platform on the top
deck that doubles as the
entrance to the building, with
three floors of guest quarters
below. Each level has a protrud-
ing balcony that provides stun-
ning views over the surrounding
landscape. On the lowest level,
a swimming pool juts out from
the cliff face, with a deck.World: Olympic medals
made of used phones
The Tokyo 2020 Medal Project
sparked the collection of nearly
80,000 metric tons of mobile
phones and small electronic
devices around Japan, which
will be used in crafting each
gold, silver and bronze Olympic
and Paralympic medal awarded
to athletes at next year’s
Games. It is expected that
roughly 5,000 medals will be
given out between the two
Games, according to Tokyo- In 2017, the Tokyo 2020
Organizing Committee
launched its Everyone’s Medal
campaign, which called on citi-
zens to donate devices that
could be stripped of their con-
stituent metals.
Tech: Algorithm threads
way for classic artwork
A programmer has invented an
algorithm that helps her recreate
classic artwork using only sew-
ing thread and circular looms.
Ani Abakumova, 32, from Mos-
cow, uses her own mathematic
algorithm to find out how to
arrange straight lines of thread
on a loom so they will mimic
classic portraits. She has invent-
ed a special computer program
able to convert a portrait into a
knitting pattern, which she then
reproduces by hand using col-
ored thread and circular looms.
With only the help of mathemat-
ics, Ani was able to reproduce
stunning thread-made versions
of classic portraits such as the
Mona Lisa and the Girl with a
Pearl Earring.The newspaper and beyond
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