The famous Chinese ballet performing group, Shanghai Ballet, gave their performance of “Butterfly Lovers,” a Chinese ancient love story, at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 28 and 29.

It’s known as the Chinese “Romeo and Juliet” — though it predates Shakespeare by centuries. “The Butterfly Lovers” is a traditional Chinese folk tale, dating back more than a thousand years. In it, a ...

More than six decades after it was first staged, Bhaskar's Arts Academy's production Butterfly Lovers returned with an energetic new cast and elegant fusion of Indian and Chinese cultures. Butterfly ...

As the final note of the Butterfly Lovers High-pitched Huqin Concerto delicately floated through the air like a graceful butterfly taking flight, 90-year-old He Zhanhao slowly lowered the conductor's ...

Known as "the Chinese Romeo and Juliet," "The Butterfly Lovers" is brought to the stage for the first time in the form of ballet in Hong Kong, offering the audience a mesmerizing fusion of the ancient ...

Ballet’s living center is shifting eastward, with more and more of the most exciting arts and artists coming out of China, Korea and Japan. New and truly modern productions are being exported ...

A woman disguised as a boy falls in love with a man she can never have - it's the stuff of romantic tragedies from Shakespeare to "Yentl" and beyond. In ancient China, a similar legend took on fame as ...

GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell's forthcoming recording Butterfly Lovers features one of the most renowned works in the Chinese classical violin repertoire, the Butterfly Lovers Violin ...

HONG KONG: This August, in a breathtaking fusion of East and West, the Hong Kong Ballet premieres its award-winning The Butterfly Lovers in New York. This ballet redefines classical storytelling with ...

Remember the Barbra Streisand film “Yentl”? Well, Western theater does not hold the monopoly on forbidden love. In the “The Butterfly Lovers,” a Bejing Academy of Dance production that will be ...