The Art Space series of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival brings performances to Huangpu's busiest commercial hubs, turning streets into stages and everyday moments into artistic encounters.

TX Huaihai

📍No 523 Middle Huaihai Road, Huangpu district

🗓️ Oct 18 | 5 pm / 5:30 pm

1. Flash Performances: The GBA Culture Week

2. The Battle of the Lion Kings by Guangzhou South China Lion Dance Art Group

Led by Zhao Weibin, a nationally recognized inheritor of the Guangdong lion dance tradition, the team delivers high-energy performances that have represented China at the World Expo and Asian Games.

3. Heroic Spirit by Puning Nanshan Yingge Dance Team

A 300-year-old fusion of martial arts, folk dance, and opera, the iconic Yingge style is both fierce and graceful.

🗓️ Oct 19 | 2 pm

Puppet Play Ritual Scissors Dance by Jose Navarro Theatre

A magical puppet adaptation of Peru's Andean Scissors Dance, this UNESCO-listed cultural treasure channels ancestral energy through rhythm, spin, and masterful puppetry.

 

Bund Finance Center

📍No 600 East Zhongshan Road Number Two, Huangpu district

🗓️ Oct 18 | 3 pm

Puppet Play Poetic Meetings by Companhia Patetica

Brazilian puppeteer Tatito brings a suitcase of wonder to the streets, filled with cloud-headed ladies, dancing toys, and fairy dust. A whimsical fusion of physical theater and magical puppetry.

🗓️ Oct 19 | 8 pm / 8:40 pm / 9:20 pm

Afrobeats

Dancers from Cameroon electrify the stage with freestyle moves inspired by Afrobeats, a global music movement born in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK. Pure energy, spontaneous rhythm, and contagious fun.

 

Sinan Mansions

📍Intersection of Sinan Road & Middle Fuxing Road, Huangpu district

🗓️ Oct 24 | 5:30 / 6:30 pm; Oct 25 | 3:30 pm

Flash Mob Performance of French Opera Romeo and Juliet

🗓️ Oct 25 | 4 pm

French Opera Romeo and Juliet Concert

This outdoor reimagining of Shakespeare's classic blends the elegance of French opera with the charm of street performance. After tours across Paris and London, the immersive production is now live in Shanghai.

 

Century Square

📍No 555 East Nanjing Road, Huangpu district

🗓️ Nov 1 | 5:30 pm

"Friendship" Flash Mob Performance by the Zhangjiajie Philharmonic Orchestra

Fifty musicians from Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russia, and more perform a powerful blend of global symphonic music. Many are alumni of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and top-tier ensembles.

🗓️ Nov 2 | 5:30 pm

Puppet Play Wild West Cabaret by The Fifth Wheel

Flamenco cowgirls, heavy-metal skeleton DJs, belly dancers, and marionette mayhem come together in a fast, funny, and completely unmissable puppet performance.

 

Sources: China Shanghai International Arts Festival, WeChat account of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism at "shanghaitourism"