Kunqu Society of New York resident artists have maintained this commitment for 34 years, dedicating to teaching students on weekends. They didn't stop even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when they ...

TAIZHOU, China, Dec. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With its delicate and melodious aria, and graceful and elegant movements, Kunqu Opera, born in the waterside town of Kunshan in Jiangnan, has become ...

Kunqu Opera performers perform at China Institute in Manhattan, New York, the United States, Jan. 8, 2023. (Photo by Ziyu Julian Zhu/Xinhua) In Peking University Hall on Sept 13, an air of reflective ...

Instead of whiling away their free time watching movies or surfing the Internet like most other youth, some college students and young white-collar workers in major Chinese cities have become ...

In the performance of Kunqu, refinement and rigor are emphasized. A standard Kunqu scenario is very intricate. A Kunqu program not only details the arrangements of acts, verses, and the names of tunes ...

When she was 14, her dance teacher told her she had expressive eyes and an oval face, which were best suited for Kunqu Opera. Shao Tianshuai didn't pay much heed to the compliment until her mother ...

Imagine a musical cross between a 600-year-old form of Chinese opera and free-form jazz. It sounds like a clash of musical cultures, and in some ways it was. On stage, with heavy white makeup ...

Once on the brink of vanishing from its native China, the elegant centuries-old theatrical form of kunqu makes a bold comeback. Gunpowder, irrigation, steel: all these things were first discovered by ...

HANGZHOU, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- A three-hour Chinese Kunqu opera adaptation of the classic French romance "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" has made its debut at Hangzhou Theater in east China's Zhejiang ...

Kunqu Opera, one of the oldest traditional Chinese art forms, combines singing, dancing and acting (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Kunqu Opera, one of the oldest traditional Chinese art forms, with a ...

Kunqu performers of the Kunqu Society of New York in costumes and makeup at a City Hall event in June 2019. [Photo/KUNQU SOCIETY OF NEW YORK] Traditional art form maintained by dedicated practitioners ...