The Shanghai International Arts Festival kicks off on Friday 16 October and runs for one month, with an array of dance, music and theatre events taking place across the city. Read on for our picks this weekend.
Don't miss this generation's greatest dancer taking her final bow, in a mixed-bill programme featuring pieces from William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Mats Ek.
Cloud Gate 2 is the 'junior' company of Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, but renowned choreographer Lin Hwaimin is giving them enough rope to develop their own identity.
American troupe Bandaloop present themselves as 'pioneers of vertical dance' - they perform their ballets up and down bridges and skyscrapers, suspended from on high. Their first show in Mainland China ought to make for quite a spectacle.
Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste leads the WDR Orchestra in Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, and violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman plays a piece Brahms wrote for Joachim; today the Violin Concerto in D Major is one of the instrument's 'big four' concertos.