The Temple of Poseidon in Sounion, Athens, the capital of Greece. The ancient building is a worldwide icon.
It was just 10 photos, but they were eye-catching enough to stop a passersby in front of the Lotte Department Store. Frames were so gigantic and the colors bright that nobody could possibly miss them, even from a [...]
Composer Evgenia Manolidou conducted the Chinese Opera Orchestra in a concerto she wrote entitled “Two Cultures, One Spirit” at the Beijing Concert Hall on August 17 as part of the Cultural Year of Greece in China.
University of Pittsburgh Professor John Poulakos wrote the text and lyrics for the piece that fuses ancient Greek and Chinese [...]
The Olympics is a “cultural bridge” that has brought China and Greece – two ancient civilizations – even closer together, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said.
“The Olympic flame has moved from the cradle of the Western world to the capital of the largest and most ancient Asian civilization, forming a cultural bridge that has since [...]
Greek company Theatre of Silence will be performing “Seeking Oedipus”, a play that tells the tale of King Oedipus, who unknowingly murders his father and marries his mother entirely through the medium of mime.
The play will feature mime actors, masks and, aside from other props, a peculiar inclined plane and will be staged in [...]
New and past works by Greek and Chinese creators at the Museum of Contemporary Art > At the MoCA in Shanghai, Greek artist Giorgos Lappas is presenting a series of performance installations.
A group of distinguished contemporary Greek artists are joining forces with a number of up-and-comers in an exhibition that is scheduled to open in [...]
Dimitris Papaioannou, director of the 2004 Athens Olympics opening ceremony, is to bring his adapted version of ancient Greek tragedy Medea to Beijing early August.
Papaioannou said that most of the techniques adopted by the Athens Olympics opening ceremony were first tried out in the performance of Medea in 1993. Papaioannou directed “Medea 2″ based on [...]
An exhibition that explores the influence of ancient Greek drama on the development of opera and juxtaposes the ancient Greek and Chinese traditions in theater is scheduled to open at the premises of the Beijing Opera in early September.
Curated and conceived by Spyros Mercouris and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, “The Influence of Ancient [...]
