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In 18th-century France, an enchantress transforms a selfish prince into a monster as punishment for his cruelty. Years later, a young woman, Belle, offers the Beast her own freedom in exchange for her father's. To break the spell, the Beast must earn Belle's love before the last petal falls from his enchanted rose, lest he remain a monster forever.

Wayang Golék is the rod-puppet theater of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which incorporates a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs, and instrumental music. This program introduces the Wayang Golék tradition, focusing on puppeteer, musician, and puppet-maker Atik Rasta and his family. The first part of the video features footage from an all-night performance, interwoven with interviews with the artists. The second part examines the music of the accompanying gamelan ensemble.

Dead and Company performing at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, NY. SET I: Feel Like a Stranger, Here Comes Sunshine, Brown Eyed Women, Loser, Little Red Rooster, Cassidy, & Deal | SET II: Iko Iko, Estimated Prophet, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, Drums, Space, Uncle John's Band, Days Between, and Good Lovin' | ENCORE: Brokedown Palace, Johnny B. Goode

This performance was held at the “Tokyo Olympic official program” in March of 2017 at NHK Hall. Hatsune Miku performed with the famous Japanese drumming group “Kodo” in order to “spread the charm of Japanese culture”.

A variety of traditional Japanese theater, this program presents the heart of Noh, Bunraku, and the total experience which is Kabuki.

Set 1: Good Times(Sam Cooke cover) Scarlet Begonias(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Deal(Jerry Garcia cover) Black-Throated Wind(Bob Weir song) Dire Wolf(Grateful Dead cover) Bird Song(Jerry Garcia cover) Going Down the Road Feeling Bad([traditional] cover) Set 2: They Love Each Other(Jerry Garcia cover) (>) Terrapin Station(Grateful Dead cover) (>) He's Gone(Grateful Dead cover) (>) The Other One(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (> 'The Other One' verse 2 >) Days Between(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Turn On Your Love Light(Bobby “Blue” Bland cover) Encore: One More Saturday Night(Bob Weir song)

Set One: Shakedown Street, Bertha, Peggy-O, Me And My Uncle, They Love Each Other, West L.A. Fadeaway, Bird Song Set Two: Let The Good Times Roll, Scarlet Begonias, Help On The Way, Slipknot!, Fire On The Mountain, Drums, Space, Cumberland Blues, Days Between, Not Fade Away Encore: Black Muddy River

Set I: Jack Straw, Easy Wind > Friend of the Devil, Minglewood Blues, Ship of Fools, Corrina, Cassidy Set II: The Weight, Truckin' > He's Gone > New Speedway Boogie > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > Uncle John's Band > Black Peter > Good Lovin' Encore: Touch of Grey

Set I: Feel Like a Stranger > Hell in a Bucket, Alabama Getaway, When I Paint My Masterpiece, It Must Have Been the Roses, Cumberland Blues, Cassidy > U.S. Blues Set II: Here Comes Sunshine > Shakedown Street, Wharf Rat > Playin in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > Viola Lee Blues > Dear Prudence > Casey Jones Encore: In the Midnight Hour, Playin in the Band (reprise)

Set 1: Hell in a Bucket(Grateful Dead cover) Sugaree(Jerry Garcia cover) Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Mr. Charlie(Grateful Dead cover) Friend of the Devil(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Lost Sailor(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Saint of Circumstance(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Big Railroad Blues(Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover) Set 2: Samson and Delilah([traditional] cover) Playing in the Band(Bob Weir song) (>) Help on the Way(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Slipknot!(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Franklin's Tower(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Death Don't Have No Mercy(Reverend Gary Davis cover) Throwing Stones(Grateful Dead cover) Sugar Magnolia(Grateful Dead cover) Encore: Werewolves of London(Warren Zevon cover) (> 'Playing in the Band' reprise)

Set I: Cold Rain and Snow, Tennessee Jed, Dire Wolf, Queen Jane Approximately, If I Had the World to Give, Here Comes Sunshine, Little Red Rooster > Let It Grow Set II: Iko Iko, Dark Star > Truckin > Smokestack Lightnin > Dark Star > Deal > Drums > Space > Wharf Rat > Casey Jones Encore: Werewolves of London

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A student film made by Shinya Takeshita at the Osaka University of Arts. This short references the popular jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon, a drama that ran for 42 years on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. Takeshita portrays every character by himself. He would recycle this concept a year later for Mito Kōmon tai Gojira.

In 1989, a group of avant-garde artists who had collaborated in private for years received permission to organize their own exhibition at the National Art Museum of China. However, one of the terms was to exclude performance artists from participating. The seven artists who were left out took action. At the opening ceremony, their lives changed as the sounds of gunfire rang out.

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Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

The music isn’t over yet! “Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie, Part 1” is coming in 2026!

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.

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Take a look behind the curtain to see the vast history and recent renovation of one of Rochester, New York's most famous landmarks. Architects, theater personnel, historians, community leaders, and citizens provide in depth insight from start to finish in one of the most extensive renovations the city has ever seen.

A satirical dramedy loosely inspired by the infamous UK Miners' strikes; however this time, the fight isn’t in the pits, but on the stage. With his beloved family trade targeted by a right-wing government with a long-standing hatred for the arts, a Mime performer desperately rallies the troops for a silent revolution, vowing to save the art form from facing the final curtain.

Based on the 1980 phenomenal pop culture film, Fame The Musical is the international smash hit sensation following the lives of students at New York's High School For The Performing Arts as they navigate their way through the highs and lows, the romances and the heartbreaks and the ultimate elation of life.

Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, cafés, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this provocative hybrid documentary addresses issues of privacy, intimacy, and urban life.

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theatres are commonly built in most cosmopolitan modern cities, Hong Kong preserves a unique theatrical architecture, a Chinese tradition that has lasted more than a century - Bamboo Theatre.

In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance. He need not stick close to his model, but draws far more from his own identity - a shift of value takes place, which is nonetheless not a step beyond. THE WRITTEN FACE is an attempt to offer an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders of this ancient and disappearing performing tradition.

A comedy musical stage version of the Phantom of the Opera, filmed live on-stage during a performance in Florida.

We see a rock. It transcends languages and cultures. It traverses time and space. Perhaps it has its own nature and memories.

When facing a path with no future or precedent success, will we ever choose to stay? Cheuk Cheung’s My Way explores the Cantonese Opera tradition of male Dan performers, men who play female roles, against the backdrop of a Hong Kong society increasingly putting less value on art. Although female performers have long been part of the mainstream of Cantonese Opera, the film follows the stories of two young men who are still fascinated by the art of the male Dan, striving to find their own way to carry on the practice. A moving and searching look at the struggle for identity, My Way is a colourful, musical and moving film which offers a unique and highly personal look at perseverance in the face of a changing society.

Lemn Sissay presents a selection of short films from a new generation of artists who are inspired by poetry and the spoken word. Dying to Live; Notes on Being a Lady; Other Voices; Raised by Queenz; Terra Firma; The Siren's Song; Alice_Alice; My Grandad; The Fall; When Will It Stop?; Backwards; Covering Scars with Summer Jumpers; Is Anybody Out There?

Experimental research and dissemination documentary about current contemporary art that compiles the opinions, experiences and anecdotes of artists, gallery owners, curators, museum directors and experts.

'On the Fringe' is a captivating documentary that takes viewers on a journey through Canada’s most vibrant and eclectic arts festival circuit. Chronicling the experiences of four groups of artists as they travel from coast to coast, the film provides a rare and compelling insight into the world of Fringe theatre, and the artists who rely on these festivals to make their dreams come true.

'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), revealing a liberation that emerges in the midst of excess, where intensity and lightness, dark and light, intertwine, collide and converge.

MY NEXT STEP follows a young Kunqu Opera artist YANG Yang(28 year-old) over the course of several years. It offers its audience a glimpse into the world of Kunqu, and a magnifying look into the ambivalence of a young man struggling to find a way out for a fading art.

In a mission to build community and address social issues such as terrorism, homophobia and domestic violence, friends from NYC's South Asian diaspora team up to form Junoon Performing Arts.