The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.

In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, is sculptural ...

Where: Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St. When: Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $49-$123.75 from the Royal McPherson box office (250-386-6121) or rmts.bc.ca Dance Victoria opens its 29th season ...

In a breakneck digital era, the ancient art of Peking opera works hard to keep flourishing.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Peking Opera is debuting in Chinese classrooms as part of an effort to promote traditional arts, drawing mixed reviews from students who find it hard to learn the complex gestures ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has made clear that a pilot program teaching traditional Peking Opera in schools would not be compulsory after it drew criticism from Internet users who said forced ...

When a staging of the classic Chinese opera “Farewell My Concubine” performed by the Shanghai Peking Opera Company sold out at Princeton University in September 2017, Jianping Mei, a 1990 graduate ...