What's on in Beijing (July 22-28)

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The Nine-colored Deer

Dance drama The Nine-colored Deer is produced and performed by young Chinese dancer Zhang Yashu and created by a team of excellent young Chinese dancers. With their elegant body language, they lead the audience into the world of Dunhuang on the Silk Road, telling the legend of the nine-colored deer.

This work derives from No 257 Dunhuang Grotto frescoes The Figure of Nine-colored Deer, which is regarded as one of extant and the most complete Dunhuang frescoes. In the 1980s, The Figure of Nine-colored Deer was shot in the cartoon The Nine-colored Deer and became a household classic story.

If you go:

7:30 pm, July 22. National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

Ticket: 120-240 yuan