Shanghai Dance - Boundary

Date: July 30-31 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater

Price: 80-580 yuan

"Boundary" aims to discuss the relationship of desolation and communication. While caught in a heavy rain at a busy crossroad in Shanghai, it might not occur to you that at that very moment there are others waiting anxiously in the rain on the other end of the world. You are all waiting for a sign, a connection. This July, NDT's Chinese artist Wang Jianhui, who has been featured in works by internationally renowned choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot, and Crystal Pite, will produce a piece performed by NDT dancer Chuck Jones and brilliant Chinese dancers. Another highlight of July's performance will be the piece "You Told Me You Loved Me" presented by former NDT dancer Kevin Polak and his partner Ning Xi.

Contact: 400-610-3721

Da Vinci - The Genius Exhibition World Tour

Date: July 30 - Oct 8

Venue: Oriental Wende Plaza

Price: 38-258 yuan

The Genius demonstrates the full scope of Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable genius as a painter, inventor, artist, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, musician and architect. The exhibition features 17 compelling themed areas of Da Vinci's work, offering visitors an unmatched look inside the mind of the ultimate Renaissance man who laid the groundwork for some of modern society's most impactful inventions, such as the helicopter, airplane, automobile, submarine, parachute and bicycle.

Contact: 400-610-3721

ACTIVITIES & NIGHTLIFE

Xiao Yu: Cement Floor

Date: July 30-Aug 20 - all day

Venue: The Pace Gallery Beijing

Price: Free entry

Pace Beijing is honored to present the Xiao Yu solo exhibition Cement Floor. The artist's third exhibition at Pace Beijing, once again presents the artist's singular contemporary vision. In this exhibition, the artist again utilizes bamboo, a creative material uniquely imbued with Chinese traditional aesthetics. This material took center stage in the artist's work in 2010 in a series with a powerful sense of strength that reflects the artist's deep thinking on contemporary society and the human condition. This exhibition can be seen as a continuation of Xiao Yu's previous solo exhibition. In the third segment of the 2015 exhibition Oblivion, the artist presented a series of life-themed paintings that provided an individualized response to the dilemmas of contemporary society. Life has been a persistent inner thread concealed within the artist's oeuvre. In this latest creation, the artist conceals his own insights into life within the highly expressive appearance of bamboo-this primal living thing, with its Eastern traditional aesthetic import, seems to be an inevitable creative choice here. The repeating scene of external force and life's resistance to it also seems to reference a more deeply concealed emotional thread in the artist's heart. The massive tension borne of this resistance grows from the sensory level to catalyze the most direct experience resonance in the viewer.

Website: pacegallery.com

Beijing Technicolor Dream Coat

Date: July 30-Aug 31 - 10 am

Venue: Israeli Business and Cultural Center

Price: Free entry

Since Leon Fenster arrived in Beijing two years ago, he has been attempting to capture the enchanting chaos of the city. He has been observing and absorbing and now finally lets rip in glorious technicolour his ode to the capital. Leon re-imagines and reinvents the familiar to take us on a whimsical journey through his impressions and dreams of the city. Flying Sanlunches collide with dangling window cleaners while ferraris screech past eternally patient stone lions.

Email: lisa@ischam.org

Raw Food Month

Date: July 30-31 - 10 am

Venue: Nuo Hotel Beijing

Price: Phone for prices

Max out on nutrition, freshness and taste at NJoy's new raw food haven. Choose from a selection of the earth's best, including crudit??s, seasonal leaves and nuts, fish and seafood ceviche, house-cured salmon, carpaccio and crudos, a tartare station and ocean-fresh sashimi.

Contact: 010-5926-8281

4corners Pub Quiz & Summer Competition

Date: Aug 2 - 8 pm

Venue: 4corners

Price: Free Entry

The 4Corners Pub Quiz is a weekly international bar trivia, every Tuesday at 8 pm until about 10:30 pm. Many prizes are awarded every week. First prize is a bottle of liquor or wine, your choice. Each round shots, drinks, food, and even dessert are given away, so even if you aren't a trivia master, you are likely to win something. This summer, the trivia team the racks up the most points throughout June and July will get 1,000 yuan bar tab. The teams will compete for this summer to claim the prize. Bring your team and play in five challenging rounds of trivia. The host Matthew Couri Jacobs pulls from a wide range of fun and interesting topics. Along with music, images and theme rounds, there is always a 50/50 round. Some of the previous rounds include "Florida Headline or Bible Story," "Drag Queens or Drag Cars," or "Gun Maker or Sex Toy." Buckets of Tiger are 100 and buckets of Corona are 150 throughout the quiz. Pizza is buy one get one free until 8 pm. The full menu is also available. Slow boat is on tap and amazing craft cocktails made to order.

Email: sliceof@gmail.com

MA: Ma Jianfeng Solo Exhibition

Date: July 30-Sept 4 - 10 am

Venue: Ying Space

Price: Free Entry

This exhibition systemizes and reproduces Ma Jianfeng's works in stages over the last two years. He continues using highly saturated acrylic paint and materials such as waste paper board, wooden case and plastic cloth. These are employed to create individual, fragmented, separable and reconfigurable objects. Different from his previous works, he starts to engage with and transform more diverse found objects. Most importantly, he proactively injects volume into flat painting materials that used to rely on the being of wall. Consequently, they are endowed with the validity of existing independently in the space and become open to the possibility of interacting flexibly with one another.

Contact: 010-5127-3153

Pecking duck at a preferential price

Date: Sept 2-15

Venue: Grand Hyatt Beijing

Price: 150 yuan

Made in China, the famed Chinese restaurant in Beijing is kicking off a two-week-long promotion of its signature pecking duck specialty from Sept 2-15. It will reveal 150 limited pecking ducks with each duck carefully roasted in an old fashioned wood-fired oven to ensure this authentic delicacy. The promotion is just one among a line-up of activities and unique offers to celebrate 15th Anniversary of the Grand Hyatt Beijing at Oriental Plaza, an ironic landmark and one of the first international hotel brands on Chang'an Avenue. Special anniversary price of pecking duck is 150 yuan per set. There will be limited 150 sets, first come first serve. The price is subject to 10 percent service charge and 6 percent VAT on the total.

Contact: 010-6510-9024;

SPORTS

2016 China Open

Date: Sept 25 - Oct 9

Venue: National Tennis Centre

Don't want to miss the Big 3 in October. Come join them at China Open. As a combined ATP/WTA event, the 2016 China Open also features a star-studded lady's lineup - all top 50 WTA players including Grand Slam champions Serena Williams, Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber and Ana Ivonavic are coming to Beijing for the last Premier Mandatory event of the year. See you all in Beijing.

Contact: 400-610-3721

(China Daily 07/30/2016 page20)