Art beat in August

Painter embraces Chinese culture

Works by Yuri Kalyuta, Russia's noted realism painter and gold-medal winner at the first Beijing International Art Biennale, are on display in Guangdong Museum of Art until Aug 5. The professor from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg loves Chinese traditional culture. People will be impressed by his use of the red color. His freehand brushwork makes his oil paintings natural and poetic.

9 am-5 pm, daily except for Mondays, until Aug 5. Guangdong Museum of Art, 38 Yanyu Lu (Road), Ersha Island, Yuexiu district, Guangzhou. 020-8735-1468.

Swan Lake by Moscow Ballet Theater

Aug 8: 7:30 pm

Venue: Century Theater

Swan Lake is well-known to Chinese audiences, but this year's offering is very different, and critics are betting that the Moscow Ballet Theater's Ice Ballet Swan Lake will provide a unique artistic experience.

Ticket price: RMB 180-580

Website for tickets: www.en.damai.cn/events/tickets_67482/

Reviving Lai's double play

Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, stage director Stan Lai's best-known play, will be staged in a revival of its 2006 version at the Guangzhou Friendship Theater from Aug 9 to 11. The groundbreaking theater depicts two plays within the play. Taking half of the stage each, the two plays－a love tragedy in the 1940s and a comedy in ancient times－rehearse at the same time. The plots of the two different plays are disturbing but sometimes amazingly echo each other.

8 pm, Aug 9-11. Guangzhou Friendship Theater, 696 Renmin Bei Lu (Road), Yuexiu district, Guangzhou. 020-8666-8991.