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Wonderful Performing Arts

Hengdian World Studios is reputed as "China's Tourism and Performing Arts Capital" where you can enjoy all kinds of shows in one place. Ranging from large-scale performing arts shows to distinctive street gigs, you will find your eyes are kept fully occupied. Here are some recommendations.

Flood Show - Destructive Rainstorms and Torrential

Dream Valley
As one of the three greatest shows in Hengdian, it is a large scale outdoor performance rooted in traditional Chinese culture and ethnic customs, which takes the ancient and mysterious culture of Nuo as background and shows natural phenomena such as lightning, hurricanes, torrential rains and mountain torrents by high-tech stage design and visual effect. The 360 degree close, multi-space and three-dimensional performance provides the audiences with an immersive experience of flash flood and rainstorm.

Volcano Show - Dreamlike Tai Chi

Dream Valley
Ranked among the three greatest shows in Hengdian, the show tells the stories of "Pangu Separating Heaven and Earth", "Nvwa Creating Human Beings", "Kuafu Chasing the Sun", "Houyi Shooting the Suns", "Gonggong Touching the Zhou Mountain", "Goddess Nvwa Mending the Sky", and "Deduction of Philosophical Connotations by Fuxi", and interprets the Tai Chi principle in The Book of Changes. The philosophical connotations deducts by original ancestor Fuxi developed into The Book of Changes which points out the dialectical relationship between man and nature, and man and man, and has become the norm. The show reflects the concept and spirit of harmony, indomitability, self-improvement, optimism and symbiosis in Chinese culture, and expresses gratitude and reverence to Fuxi and Nvwa, ancestors of the Chinese nation.

Burning of Yuanming Garden

New Yuanmingyuan Palace · Summer Garden
In the form of live-action film featuring all architectural landscapes within two kilometers in the periphery of the Yuanming Garden with Haiyue Kaijin, Sea of Magnanimity, as the main background and under the context of Emperor Xianfeng's life in the Yuanming Garden and Anglo-French Allied Force burning down the Yuanming Garden, the show presents the scene of the shocking tragedy in modern Chinese history in 1860 of Anglo-French Allied Force burning down the Yuanming Garden by stagecraft and superb artistry.

Dream of Bianliang

Qingming Shanghe Tu
This is a wonderful acrobatics performance with songs and dances presenting the ancient tricks and folk acrobatic by modern stage design, telling the story of Zhang Zeduan, a palace painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, seeking inspiration for the creation of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", and completing this masterpiece after a dream and reality. Adopting diverse stage technologies such as three-dimensional scene, mechanical inversion, mirror screen refraction, perspective technology and multimedia interaction, the show depicts the local customs and prosperity of the Bianliang, capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty in detail by the fantastic scene in Zhang's dream.

Water Dance Show - Broadway Dance

Dream Bund Film & TV Theme Park
The show, one of the greatest shows in Hengdian, brings diversified cultures of old Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s via immersive and marching performance. This dance show is staged in three performing halls. The first and second are real scenes of Shikumen (stone gate) and wharf and the third is Paramount. The song and dance entertainment industry of old Shanghai and the characteristics of the times are extremely presented via a splendid song and dance show and a large-scale water dance show. The program presents the style of old Shanghai in an all-around and panoramic manner via the progressive deduction layer by layer of three performing halls.