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01 Mar 2012 - 01 Oct 2012
UK Now Arts Festival | China


- A major exhibition of the work of sculptor Tony Cragg by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art tours to Beijing and Shanghai from April to December.
- Vertical Road is Akram Khan's latest contemporary ensemble work where he has assembled a cast of performers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. With a specially commissioned score by long-term collaborator, Nitin Sawhney, Vertical Road draws inspiration from the Sufi tradition and the Persian poet and philosopher Rumi and explores man's earthly nature, his rituals and the consequences of human actions. The Akram Khan Company will travel to Beiijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan in May 2012.
- Created by Tom Dale, Barret Hodgson, and Maria Olga Palliani for the Tom Dale Company and set in a white, digitally animated environment, I Infinite is a multi-media dance installation inspired by the digital world’s quest to re-create life. I, Infinite will be presented at the 23rd Macao Arts Festival, Macao, May 2012.
- Since 1912 each Olympic host city has commissioned one or more posters to celebrate the hosting of the Games This exhibition presents a collection of Olympic prints by twelve of the UK’s leading artists and will tour to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong from April to August. See one of the selected images on the left by the artist Michael Craig-Martin.
- Propeller is an all-male Shakespeare company, which mixes a rigorous approach to the text with a modern physical aesthetic. Henry V, one of the greatest classical plays about war in the English language, and Winters Talewill be presented in Beijing and Shanghai in June 2012.
Source: British Council
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