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The “Window of the City” Pavilion
The Prime Attraction of the Expo Site
The Expo 2010 Shanghai site lies in the heart of Shanghai on both banks of the Huangpu River, divided into the Puxi and Pudong areas. The thematic show “Window of the City” is located at Houtan Square in Zone C, at Gate 8 of the Pudong area. Covering 2,500 square meters, Houtan Square is a key entrance for VIP guests and the busiest entrance for tour groups, so the pavilion is the most eye-catching landmark visitors see as soon as they enter the site, a sign of its importance. The pavilion is 106 meters long, 75 meters wide and 20 meters high, with a total area of 6,300 square meters and more than 2,000 seats, making it the only performance at Expo 2010 Shanghai with its own dedicated pavilion.
Presented by Expo 2010 Shanghai
A New Production Unlike Any Other
By blending Eastern and Western perspectives, bringing together Chinese and Western performing artists, and combining technologies from East and West, the show expresses the meaning and spirit of the Expo 2010 Shanghai theme, “Better City, Better Life,” and conveys the vision of a harmonious city, a harmonious nation and a harmonious world. Large-scale spectacular stage design, rich and varied high-tech multimedia imagery, breathtaking aerial performance and expressive movement come together in a dazzling, ever-changing audiovisual story theatre.
Top Artists from Across the Chinese-Speaking World, Europe and America
The Expo thematic show “Window of the City” is presented by Expo 2010 Shanghai and co-produced by the Taipei Arts International Association, Shanghai Broadcasting Television Station and Shanghai Oriental Media Group Limited (SMG), with leading artists from around the world invited to create it together. It is directed by Carlos Padrissa and Alex Ollé, artistic directors of the Spanish theatre company La Fura dels Baus, who stunned the world with Battle of the Mediterranean, the opening ceremony performance of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Founded in 1979, La Fura dels Baus has created more than 40 works over thirty years and toured 350 cities worldwide, and is recognized as one of the most creative giants of world theatre. “Window of the City” is the company’s first production in Asia, promising an unprecedented and unimaginable experience of European theatre.
East Meets West
Igniting the Most Brilliant Sparks of Art
“Window of the City” was written by the show’s producer Serina Chen, Artistic Director of the Taipei Arts International Association, together with Yau Chen, founder of Taiwan Image in Motion Theater Company. Choreography is by Doudou Huang, Dance Director of the Shanghai Opera House; video design by renowned Spanish visual artist Franc Aleu and Yau Chen; music by Yukio Tsuji, Music Director of La MaMa, the cradle of New York’s Off-Broadway; stage design by Alfons Flores, stage designer of the thematic show at Expo 2008 Zaragoza in Spain; lighting design by Alain Lortie, lighting designer for Canada’s Cirque du Soleil; costume design by Han Feng, internationally acclaimed for her costumes for the opera Madama Butterfly; aerial rigging design by Xu Longtao, chief rigging designer of the Beijing Olympics; and pavilion design by J.M. Lin, principal of Taipei’s The Observer Design Group and winner of numerous international architecture and design awards… This new collaboration is a meeting of East and West, bringing the world’s finest minds together in Shanghai to ignite brilliant sparks of art at the Shanghai World Expo.
