Entry with a paper ticket only.
Exchange your e-ticket for a paper ticket at the ticket machines in the East Ticket Hall and enter through the East Gate. The ticket machines operate daily from 09:00 to midnight.
Ticket inspection starts 1 hour before the performance; the auditorium opens 30 minutes before. Latecomers can enter after the prologue, about 5 minutes after the start, as directed by the stage manager.
Children under 1.2 m need their own ticket; the performance is suitable for ages 3 and over.
A cloakroom is available after ticket inspection. Dangerous items, smoking and open flames are prohibited; food, drinks, bottled water, flowers and plastic bags may not be taken into the auditorium. Photography, audio and video recording are prohibited during the performance.
Film director Lu Chuan’s first dance drama brings to the stage Tiangong Kaiwu, Song Yingxing’s great seventeenth-century encyclopedia of Chinese farming and crafts.
Tiangong Kaiwu is the first dance drama directed by the renowned director Lu Chuan. It takes as its subject Song Yingxing’s book Tiangong Kaiwu, described as the greatest encyclopedia of agriculture and handicrafts of seventeenth-century China.
Through the beauty of stage design, costume, music, projected images, installations, craftsmanship, technology and the land itself, the production brings out the book’s philosophy of the work of heaven and the making of things, and shows the national spirit at the roots of Chinese science and technology.
The production is presented by Jiangxi Cultural Performance Group and Beijing Dance Academy. It has toured 43 cities with more than 200 performances and has been seen by more than 100,000 people. The performance lasts about 120 minutes, including a 15-minute interval.
9 South Tianqiao Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing (北京市西城区天桥南大街9号)
