DANCE OF ZHANG YIMOU

Zhang Yimou directed the ballet version of RAISE THE RED LANTERN that the National Ballet of China will be performing on its tippy toes all over the US this Fall.

Their NYC stop is the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Surprisingly, Zhang Yimou has been directing dance and opera for a while. He directed an 8 minute Chinese dance piece that helped close the Athens Olympics, there's a TV film of him directing the opera TURANDOT in Beijing, and the MET has commissioned an opera ("Emperor Qin Shihuang") from composer Tan Dun (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) that Zhang Yimou will direct.