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Plastic Fantastic－Mimirichi In Shanghai

Date: Nov 17－7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Daning Theater

Price: 100-380 yuan

Four Ukrainian "kidult" comedians decide to throw a wild party using plastic of all shapes and colors. A small plastic bag may be an aircraft or cannon one moment and a wailing baby the next. Whimsical ideas and imaginative routines chase one after the other, illustrating the quartet's endless capacity to surprise. Plastic Fantastic delivers a series of short comic stories that mix improvisation, pantomime, clown art and sound to draw you into its madcap world. The international award-winning stars of Kiev's Mimirichi Clowns & Pantomime Theatre have earned world recognition for their amazing performances. The four offbeat mime artists will keep audiences of all ages doubled over with laughter.

The Collection of American Modern Dance from Paul Taylor

Date: Nov 19-20－7: 30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100－480 yuan

Paul Taylor, one of the most accomplished artists this nation has ever produced, continues to shape America's homegrown art of modern dance as he has since becoming a professional dancer and pioneering choreographer in 1954. Taylor first presented his choreography with five other dancers in Manhattan on May 30, 1954. That modest performance marked the beginning of a half-century of unrivaled creativity, and in the decades that followed, Mr. Taylor became a cultural icon and one of history's most celebrated artists, hailed as part of the pantheon that created American modern dance.