By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist
We don’t get to see too many performances here in American stages from China due to passport and visa issues. Chinese Performing Art ‘s CEO and president Catherine Chan can verify that. Last week her pianist couldn’t get visa at the last minute ,had to be substituted by a local artist, therefore the program had to be changed in Jordan Hall.
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Salt Lake City, Feb. 6, 2014, — In the afternoon of Feb. 1, 2014, hundreds of people showed up for the Chinese New Year cultural celebration. Colorful banners and paper lanterns were hung in the Urban Room. A traditional Chinese lion dance, music, children’s activities, and other cultural events brought smiles to the faces of many kids in the audience.
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Boston, Feb. 6, 2014, — With its new year dance show and Chinese New Year performances in the rear view mirror, Angel Dance Company is preparing a grand dance show Dunhuang My Dreamland – Tales of the Silk Road. It will be staged in early March at Casey Theater of Regis College, and bring the splendid colors from the Silk Road to the early sprint of Boston.
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By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist
Camilla is a symbol of rich and noble. A Chinese plant to keep during holidays. The full bloom flower of this kind: two inches diameter multiple petals in Chinese “red”, started out like a tiny seed on the branch, then gradually the little bud gets bigger and bigger.
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Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 4, 2014, — The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to screen the series FORTUNES OF THE WESTERN from FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 – MONDAY MARCH 22, 2014
Boredom and good fate may have caused travelers to thumb through the December 2013 issue of Magazine, the glossy monthly Air France stuffs in its seatback pouches to hawk duty-free perfume and canned caviar. They might have happened upon an article advertising another French commodity: the classical American Western. A brief interview that well-named Marie Aucouturier led with filmmaker and critic Bertrand Tavernier, frequent and welcome visitor to the Harvard Film Archive, informed readers of his undying love of the genre. So undying that in partnership with Actes Sud, currently France’s keenest publisher of creative and critical writing, he is reissuing a series of western novels of bygone times under the title “L’Ouest, c’est vrai” [“The West, It’s True”]. Inspiring many feature films in the halcyon days of the studio era, sadly, few of the original novels can be found in Harvard’s Widener Library. It can be wagered that despite their elegant design and crisp translation these new editions will never make their way to our shores. Whether they do or not is less significant than what Tavernier’s project makes clear: that much of the American Western owes the recovery of its genius to what Gallic cinephiles have done with it.
Poster from 1948 movie Red River.
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Los Angles, Feb. 2, 2014, — Rentrak Corporation, the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of Feb. 2, 2014 as compiled by the company’s Box Office Essentials™ and International Box Office Essentials™ theatrical measurement services.
Donnie Yen, star of the Monkey King, grew up in Boston.
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New York City, Jan. 31, 2014, –Following its remarkable engagements of The Peony Pavilion and Silk Road at Lincoln Center, China Arts and Entertainment Group returns with the U.S. premiere of a new dance theater piece: The Red Dress, at the David H. Koch Theater from March 6-9. This will be the debut performance of The Red Dress in the US.
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New York City, Jan. 17, 2014, — Alvin Chen’s (陳駿霖) film from Taiwan opens in Los Angeles and New York today. It has already screened elsewhere in the US, and will open in Chicago and Seattle next week.
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By Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association(HCSSA)
The annual Ivy League Chinese Spring Festival Gala will be hosted again by HCSSA on Feb. 1, 2014 at John Hancock Hall in Boston. This year’s Spring Festival Gala is organized by the eight Ivy League schools to celebrate the arrival of the Lunar New Year. We are excited to present an evening where people from diverse cultural backgrounds can gather and celebrate this special occasion.
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By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist
The Color Purple is a Boston theater premiere (Jan10—Feb 8, 2014) of the acclaimed Broadway musical based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Alice Walker. Since its publication in 1982, this novel has sold more than 5 million copies in 22 languages. The Warner Bros/Amblin Entertainment motion picture “The Color Purple” opened December 20, 1985, was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Laurence Fishburne.
Crystin Gilmore (center) as Shug Avery with (from left) Lovely Hoffman, Taylor Washington, Carolyn Saxon, and Maurice Emmanuel Parent in a scene from the SpeakEasy Stage Company production of THE COLOR PURPLE, running now through February 8th at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End (Photo credit: Glenn Perry Photography).
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