CTW’s traditional music, dance, & opera programming combines three traditional performing art forms into a single event of cultural and artistic spectacle. Chinese Opera is a traditional performing art form …
Like all forms of movement in Chinese opera, physical conflict— from small street fights to large scale warfare— is transformed into dance. Although heavily influenced by Chinese martial arts, opera …
In cultures across the world, symbols and colors are frequently used to convey deeper meanings. In China, brides traditionally wear the color red which symbolizes happiness. Since the Yuan Dynasty …
For thousands of years, China has been a feudal society where clothing has been used to indicate social and political status. These conventions are reflected in Chinese opera where elaborate …
In Chinese opera, all motion is a form of dance. Movement patterns are fluid, circular and bigger than life. This workshop introduces the basic vocabulary of gestures and postures used on …
Triple Zhongkui Pageant is a unique piece of theater that blends several CTW performance styles. This production is at once a lively piece of bilingual street theater, a demonstration of …
Chinese shadow performance (“Pi Ying Xi”) has a history going back 2000 years. This theater tradition uses beautifully carved and colored animal-hide figures, manipulated behind cloth screens in order to …
Drawing on China’s two-thousand-year history of shadow puppetry, Tiger Tales, features an artful blend of Eastern and Western, ancient and contemporary techniques that are the hallmark of all CTW productions. …
Cross-Cultural Pioneers: American Artists’ Experiences with Peking Opera was Chinese Theatre Works fourth forum in our series focusing on Chinese Opera. This forum focused on the experience of American artists …
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Preserving traditional culture practices in a changing World is an ongoing process. In 2022, Chinese Theatre Works collaborated with CHINOPERL, the Rewen Society at China Institute, and Center for Theater …
