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LONDON FOR FUN Newsletter: 25 March 2008 Issue No.144

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1.) Top 10 London events
2.) Other Events, Theatre listings, Museums and Galleries
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1. Top 10 London events
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1 - Philip Akkerman - Mummery + Schnelle presents the latest installment of Philip Akkerman’s on-going series of self-portraits. Since 1981 Akkerman has painted nothing but himself, over 2,400 portraits so far. His exhibition consists of paintings made between 2005 and the beginning of 2008. Until 12 April.
www.mummeryschnelle.com

2 - Classic FM Live at the Movies - This celebration of movie music will feature some of classical music’s hottest stars; Lang Lang will perform Rachmaninov’s stunning Piano Concerto No 2, and there will also be performances from Blake, Jonathan Ansell and Ruth Palmer. Classic FM’s Orchestra of the North West, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with their amazing conductor Vasily Petrenko, will be performing some of John Williams best known and loved cinematic hits. April 17.
www.classicfm.co.uk

3 - Georges Bizet - The Spanish heat and gypsy passion of Carmen take to the stage as The Royal Opera presents the first revival of Francesca Zambello’s vibrant production with Tanya McCallin’s richly coloured designs. It’s a great stage recreation of the sun-drenched and sultry world of 19th-century Spain, with its ranks of soldiers and crowds of peasants, its gypsies and bullfighters, its spectacle and its deadly, white-hot emotions. Spanish-born Nancy Fabiola Herrera has been greatly acclaimed as the fickle temptress of the title, while star tenor Marcelo Álvarez is Don José, the soldier she forces to murderous jealousy over her new affair with the bullfighter Escamillo, played by Kyle Ketelsen. It’s a perfect cast to bring alive the sexy solos, rousing choruses, impassioned arias and Spanish dances of one of the most famously tuneful of all operas and one of the most enduringly popular works in the entire repertory. From March 25 to April 17.
www.royaloperahouse.org

4 - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is renowned for delivering spellbinding, spiritual performances. Choreographer LIN Hwai-min has integrated meditation, tai-chi, martial arts and Chinese opera movement with modern dance and ballet, to develop a truly unique dance style – varying from the weighty stillness of a stone sculpture, to floating lyricism, to fierce martial-art like attack. From 16 April until 19 April.
www.sadlerswells.com

5 - CORNELIA PARKER - Parker is known for her intriguing installations of found and manipulated objects. She focuses on people, places and ideas that have become so established in the public consciousness they have become monuments, or even cliches. From a feather extracted from Sigmund Freud's pillow to flattened brass band, from a silver spoon to the height of Niagara Falls - the artist's work ranges from the microscopic to the epic, conceptually unravelling icons of both high and low culture. In the exhibition, Parker explores idea of 'Latent News', a surrealist game in which newspaper articles are cut into individual words and phrases and rapidly reassembled to make some other kind of sense. Until 24 April.
www.frithstreetgallery.com

6 -Juan Muñoz - Juan Muñoz (1953 – 2001) is widely regarded as of one of the foremost contemporary sculpture and installation artists. Revealing his innovative and wide ranging artistic practice, Tate Modern presents the first major solo retrospective of Muñoz’s work in the UK. Opening in January 2008, the exhibition will feature more than 90 works, including several previously unseen pieces alongside Muñoz’s signature sculptures and installations, exquisite series of drawings, and collaborative sound and performance pieces. Until 27 April.
www.tate.org.uk/modern

7 - Spring Loaded - Spring Loaded, the annual season of new contemporary dance from emerging British-based choreographers, returns to The Place this year for the first time since 2000. Teeming with work that is fresh and creative, Spring Loaded is a showcase for the best choreography from the UK's most promising talent, with 16 companies performing over six weeks from 13 April to 19 May.
www.theplace.org.uk

8 - Coming of Age - Abstract art by Jackson Pollock, landscapes by John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler, genre paintings by Eastman Johnson, portraits by Thomas Eakins and Marine paintings by Winslow Homer will be among the famous works in this exhibition about American art. Over the course of the one hundred years from the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture came of age, evolving from the provincial to the international. Until 8 June.
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

9 - Running the Silk Road - A cast of UK and Chinese performers weave together two theatrical traditions in this enthralling collaboration. In 2008, the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set off on an epic journey along the ancient Silk Road trading route to China. Armed only with good humour, they cross the isolated terrain of central Asia, carrying with them an alternative Olympic flame to represent the dangers of global warming. The story of their journey is interwoven with tales from Chinese mythology. Classical actors from Beijing Opera draw on the zaju theatre of the Jin Dynasty, using dance, acrobatics, comic patter and music. From 24 June until 28 June.
www.barbican.org.uk

10 - China Design Now - China Design Now is the first exhibition in the UK to explore the recent explosion of new design in China, and the first to attempt to understand the impact of rapid economic development on architecture and design in Chinas major cities. From the 2008 Olympic stadium, and other significant architectural projects, to the latest in fashion and graphics, China Design Now captures a dynamic phase as China opens up to global influences and responds to the aspirations of its new urban middle class. The exhibition takes the form of a journey through three fast growing cities - Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Around 100 designers are featured, 95% of them Chinese, in a display that focuses on architecture, fashion and graphic design as well as film, photography, product and furniture design, youth culture and digital media. Until 13 July.
www.vam.ac.uk

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