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BodyVox - Urban Meadow in Beijing

Date: April 7-8 - 7:30 pm

Venue: China Millennium Monument Premiere Theater

Price: 50-299 yuan

Since its founding in 1997, BodyVox has garnered international acclaim for its ingenuity, creativity, and unique approach to theater that assimilates all possibilities for movement, endows it with breathtaking physicality, enriches it with striking imagery and embellishes it with humor, wit and whimsy to create refined dancing that knows no boundaries.

Urban Meadow celebrates the company's history of making work that has entertained and moved audiences around the world. Here are dances of sweeping beauty, intense physicality and irreverent humor, ranging from the mysterious to the romantic to the hilarious. Urban Meadow represents all the facets of BodyVox in an evening of unforgettable dance theater.

Contact: 400-610-3721

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Blue Note Beijing Melissa Aldana

Date: April 7-8 - 7 pm

Venue: Blue Note Beijing

Price: 380-480 yuan

Melissa Aldana is a Chilean tenor saxophone player, who performs both as a soloist and with her band Melissa Aldana & Crash TrioRising tenor saxophone star releases her second trio album (and fourth as a leader), unveiling powerful music by herself and her illustrious bandmates.

Acclaimed tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana follows up her 2014 Concord release Melissa Aldana& Crash Trio with the explorative and deeply swinging Back Home, this time released on the Wommusic label. Pablo Menares, Aldana's fellow native of Santiago, Chile, is again on bass. On drums is the in- demand JochenRueckert, bringing a supple and unpredictable rhythmic elan to the session. These three musicians turn on a dime and project an uncommonly full orchestral sound, rich in spiritual intensity, all in the absence of a harmony instrument.

Contact: 400-610-3721