53-year-old Yang Liping 杨丽萍 is as gorgeous as ever in another Peacock dance. Performed with the young dancer Wang Di, the dance uses traditional methods but is combined with a new costume, the beautiful backdrop and music by composer SanBao.
Watch the dance below in HD. Also watch her performance in HD with niece Caiqi on Hunan TV last week here.
Girlgroup iMe diverged from their honey-sweet image recently as they cross-dressed and performed a dance to Jang Woo Hyuk’s Mr. Jackson on a variety show. In return, a group of boys, including Dream of Red Chambers Yu Xiaotong, dressed up as girls and performed iMe’s Aiyiya dance, which you can see here.
iMe performing Michael Jackson, cut by dehlefebvre@cfensi:
From Seattle to LA to Las Vegas to Boston to NYC to Toronto, cpop artists have been all over the U.S. and Canada this year ... I'm going to cry if someone else pops up and I can't go stalk them.
Bibi Zhou Bichang, Anson Hu, Elva Hsiao, K’naan, Kangta, Phoenix Legend, Luo Dayou, Da Zhang Wei (former leader of the Flowers), Fu Xinbo (formerly of BoBo), and others will perform in Toronto on November 28th as a celebration of 40 years of diplomatic relationship between Canada and China. For more details and ticket information, visit the official site here.
Seriously, why wouldn't you stalk them?
In addition to their appearances, movies like Alec Su and Eva Huang’s “A Singing Fairy” and Zhang Hanyun, Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, and Alec Su’s “The Message,” Cecilia Cheung and Daniel Wu’s “One Nite in Mongkok,” and Cecilia Cheung and Louis Koo’s “Lost in Time” will be aired at the festival.
At the opening ceremony, where the stars will be present, only balcony and box tickets are available, for $30, but you should go and support the festival to not only see awesome people, but to allow the festival to continue in the future so other awesome people can come.
In addition, Jane Zhang will be hosting a fanmeeting in Singapore on Sept. 24th, attending the Asian Music Festival in Seoul on Oct. 23rd, and hosting her first concert in Sydney on October 9th. You can buy tickets online here.
Who: Top entertainers including movie stars Cheung Pak Chi, Zhang Hanyu, Jiang Wenli, Su Youpeng and Chinese “Super Girl” winner Jane Zhang (Zhang Liang Ying)
When: Red Carpet, Saturday, September 18; 6pm, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Film Screening, 8pm
Where: Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 1941 Broadway New York City, NY
Details: The Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) and Chinese movie channel CCTV-6 invite you to the star-studded opening ceremony for the 1st New York Chinese Film Festival. Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the CAAC, the festival program is packed with screenings, celebrity appearances, fan events and a gala dinner honoring outstanding Asian artists. The Red Carpet Film Screening kicks off the three-day festival and includes: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony with Chinese film superstars
“Only for Love” from Banquet sung by Jane Zhang (Zhang Liang Ying)
“Marriage Vow” from Lu Sheng Love Story sung by Rongrong Chen
Screening of Lan directed by Wen Li Jiang, 2009
TO ORDER TICKETS FOR THE GALA PLEASE CALL 212 431 9740
From L-R: Chen Xiao, Han Ye, Guo Le, Xu Jiawei, Lu Xinyou, Jiang Chao and Zhang He
Most boybands, like M.I.C., train in secrecy before debuting. This summer, Hunan TV and eeMedia brings the creation of a boyband to the public eye as viewers follow the formation of eeMedia’s new boyband 8090 from day one to its rise.
Potential 8090 members are chosen from over 100,000 competitors of Super Boys, a Chinese Idol competition. Once chosen, they are placed into intensive training with eeMedia and Korean company DoReMi. As more members are chosen each early round of Super Boys, others are eliminated for various reason. Last week, after over two months of training, the final elimination left the complete boyband with 7 members, who will debut next Friday (08/06) on Super Boys to compete against the top 7 Super Boys competitors in future rounds.
Introductions on the members below the cut.
8090 performing JYP’s Honey (7 of the 9 became members). Watch their other performances here, here and here.
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SuperVC and Laure Shang on MTV True Live
In a world where music can be produced with computers, and singing often means lipsynching, there’s something precious about live music – especially on TV. MTV True Live is a series that I’ve really enjoyed. It has the perfect atmosphere for live music (not that it’s really live since we’re not there) – enough audiences for artists to get excited in, but not concert-like, so the artists can really feel comfortable and interact with the music and band.
Artists who have gone on include Yoga Lin & Jeno (Jade) Liu, Kay Tse & Chen Chusheng, Jane Zhang & Zhang Yadong, Zhang Jie & Tan Weiwei, Laure Shang & Super VC and Shin & Li Yuchun. Some highlights from each show, including Jane Zhang’s beautiful cover of Sting’s Fragile, cute duets between Yoga Lin and Jeno Liu, and a powerful duet by Tan Weiwei and Zhang Jie. Laure Shang and SuperVC’s episode is not on YouTube, but you can watch it on tudou here.
Extra points for figuring out what all of the pairs have in common other than the boy-girl pairings!
Jane Zhang with Zhang Yadong:
Fragile (Cover of Sting) ft Zhang Yadong and Impressions West Lake Rain (印象西湖雨):
This is perhaps an article where few others would care, but I couldn’t let this pass under the radar. Composer San Bao two years ago fell seriously ill. Since then, he’s been inactive, regaining his health, but it’s been announced that he was planning on making a return to the art scene, by staging a symphonic concert at Henan. San Bao is known for scoring Zhang Yimou’s Not One Less and The Road Home as well as several theme songs, including Jin Fen Shi Jia‘s An Xiang.
Some San Bao: Music from the Road Home (in the form of a ZZY montage bc it was the only thing I found on youtube – sorry!)
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I always thought it was such a shame that he had health problems right at the cusp of China’s film boom. Because tv and film composers develop later than the film industry, China’s in a desperate need for composers. He says he will concentrate on musical theater now, and does not plan to write for tv or film anymore, but I hope he reconsiders . Overall, I’m just excited he’s back.
As if they haven’t thrown enough money into this project (50,000 yuan per episode, for 50 episodes) the production behind Li Shaohong’s upcoming Dream of the Red Chamber prepared a water and lights ballet version of the drama that was performed October 3-5 to coincide with the mid-autumn moon festival, in Silver Pickax Lake in Changfeng Park, Shanghai. It featured bursts of lights, water and fire surrounding the actors as they danced above the lake. The show will be performed again for the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Clip of the part where Baoyu realizes he got tricked into marrying the girl that he doesn’t love. If someone does find the whole thing, please tell me!
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Poster for "That Night, We Make Music"
One of the bigger record labels in China for indie/folk/rock, Thirteenth Month, has taken one of the first steps into branching out into the stage, in “That Night, We Make Music”, a rock stage drama that is an outlet for their frustrations. On April 22nd they held a press conference where everything was set up as a funeral to express their outlook on the current music industry.
Jane Zhang held her Japan Premier Showcase on March 29th. The arrangements for the songs were energetic and playful, and she pulled them off like a pro. She also performed a Japanese version of “light in darkness”
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