Beijing Dance Academy's Youth Dance Company launched its 2021 national tour themed dance in Beijing on May 7.
More than 14,000 performances were held throughout the May Day holiday from May 1 to 5, with total ticket revenues reaching 860 million yuan ($133.74 million) and attracting over 6 million audiences, according to statistics released by the China Association of Performing Arts.
Cliff Walkers, the first foray of renowned Chinese director Zhang Yimou into the spy genre, opened Friday in a limited theatrical release in North America.
Chinese museums and cultural heritage conservators will embrace the 45th International Museum Day nationwide on May 18, with the main venue of the national-level celebration set in the Capital Museum in Beijing.
As the flowers bloom, so have the crowds. Music fans across China have moved from one music festival to another since the first day of the May Day holiday, bringing new life to China's offline entertainment industry after the epidemic.
Revolutionary sites have become a travel hit during the May Day holiday. As of 3 pm on Saturday, the first day of the five-day holiday, 13 "red tourism" sites in Guangdong received 23,000 visits during the holiday, up by 298.9 percent year on year, according to the provincial culture and tourism department.
Xinlong Forest Music Festival was held on May 2 and 3 in Xinlong Ecological Forest of Changzhou city, Jiangsu province, where 14 groups of indie musicians and bands delighted music lovers.
China's live performance industry has generated a total of 860 million yuan (about $132.5 million) at the box office during the five-day May Day holiday, the China Association of Performing Arts said.
The scene where wealthy socialite Rose clings to a floating door after her beloved Jack dies in the freezing waters of the Atlantic is one of the most memorable scenes in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic. But what was previously unknown is that this scene was inspired by the true-life story of one of the six Chinese who survived the 1912 disaster.
China's box office revenue during the five-day May Day holiday ending on Wednesday hit a record high of nearly 1.67 billion yuan (about $258 million).
Battle of Shanghai, a theatrical production produced and performed by the Shanghai Circus School and Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe, will be staged at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on May 8 and 9.
But in the Tencent News documentary series Insights, an amateur "journalist" manages to get eight entrepreneurs from a wide range of fields to open up, with each featured in one episode.