A high impact, theatrical entertainment experience for all audiences, “JUNGUA–Descendents of the Dragon” celebrates the Chinese culture in an explosion of kungfu, acrobatics, music and dance. The amazing skills of China's finest acrobats and martial arts masters combine with modern staging, exciting choreography, and dramatic music and lighting to immerse the senses. JUNGUA is a theatrical hybrid, presenting these cultural treasures of China from a uniquely modern perspective. Featuring the “Shaolin Disciples and the Imperial Acrobats of China,” JUNGUA combines the best talents and revered cultural traditions of the far-east with modern production values, contemporary artistic direction and an evocative musical score. With lightening fast fight sequences and traditional weapons demonstrations, the Shaolin Disciples perform super-human feats of “Qigong” in which their bodies become impervious to spears, beds of nails, and various rocks, bricks, sticks, and steel bars broken over their heads and other parts of their bodies. Their unsurpassed abilities as contortionists, hand balancers, foot jugglers, and aerialists are legendary. BUY TICKETS NOW! The 2006-2007 season marked the debut North American performances of The State Ballet Theater of Russia, which is the touring name of The Voronezh State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, established in 1961. The repertoire of the theatre includes work by both classical and modern Russian composers including: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Don Quixote, Le Sylphide, Scheherazade, Gavalry Halt, The Stone Flower, 1001 Nights, Carmen-suite, Cipollino, Doctor Aubolit, Francesca di Rimini and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai. The State Ballet Theatre of Russia has toured with productions of traditional Russian classics throughout France, (performing Sleeping Beauty in 38 cities), Germany, Holland and Czechoslovakia, as well as in India and throughout Africa with engagements in Tunisia, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia. Among the company’s 54 dancers are many distinguished Russian artists and winners of many international ballet competitions. BUY TICKETS NOW!               Six time Grammy winners, The Chieftains are now recognized for bringing traditional Irish music to the world's attention. They have uncovered the wealth of traditional Irish music that has accumulated over the centuries, making the music their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive. Although their early following was purely a folk audience, the range and variation of their music quickly captured a much broader public, making them the best known Irish band in the world today. In their 40 years together, The Chieftains have performed around the world, including China, Berlin, and the Capitol Building of Washington DC. They have performed with many symphony and folk orchestras worldwide, and have broken many musical boundaries by collaborating and performing with some of the biggest names in rock, pop and traditional music in Ireland and around the world. As Ireland's Official Musical Ambassadors, The Chieftains are as comfortable playing spontaneous Irish sessions as they are headlining a concert at Carnegie Hall. After all these years of making some of the most beautiful music in the world, The Chieftains' music remains as fresh and relevant as when they first began. BUY TICKETS NOW!     Kodo is a group whose activities are centered on the Japanese drum, or ‘taiko’. While exploring the countless byways of the traditional performing arts, Kodo strives to create something new for the modern age. The name ‘Kodo’ conveys two meanings. The literal readings of the two characters that make up the name in Japanese are ‘drum’ and ‘child’–conveying Kodo's desire to play the taiko purely, with the heart of a child. The word Kodo is also a homonym for ‘heartbeat’–humanity’s most fundamental source of rhythm–the first sound a child hears in their mother’s womb. Since Kodo’s debut at the Berlin Festival in 1981, one third of the year has been spent touring Japan, a third on Sado Island, and the rest of the year touring overseas. BUY TICKETS NOW! The Ten Tenors have captivated audiences around the world with the group’s trademark, “Opera without the Boring Bits.” Formed in Brisbane, Australia, in 1995 while still university students studying for opera careers, The Ten Tenors mounted their first full-length show in 1998 and set out on an extensive Australian tour during that academic year. In typical Australian fashion, The Ten Tenors never take themselves too seriously, so while they are capable of singing dramatic, moving ballads, they can also cut loose with an ABBA, Bee Gees, Beach Boys or Queen song in their live shows, even throwing in some choreographed dance moves to make the performance as much fun for them as for their audiences. BUY TICKETS NOW!