Pho Lok
Well-known in the US for bringing fast food to Vietnamese cooking, Pho Luk has found a quiet corner of Shanghai Plaza from which to begin its assault on China. Familiar dishes such as barbecue beef noodles and spring rolls are given just enough of a Vietnamese twist to distinguish them from Chinese fare. The bamboo interior sounds rather twee but, somehow they manage to carry it off.
Rosario Suárez, Toni Candeloro + il Balletto di Puglia
Miami-Cuban Rosario Suárez, Italian dancer Toni Candelero and the Balletto di Puglia present this mixed programme dedicated to Anna Pavlova. The troupe present various pieces originally choreographed by Fokine, among them ‘Les Sylphides’, ‘The Death of a Swan’ and ‘Egyptian Night’. Under the artistic direction of Anna Cuocolo, the show is accompanied by an exhibition of photographs of Anna Pavlova. Dating back 80 years, the photos portray the prima ballerina who gave up the chance to dance with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in order to promote dance in the remotest corners of the world.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Named after their Physical Education teacher Leonard Skinner back in Florida in the ’60s, these gutsy Southern rock stalwarts return with a new album ‘Edge Of Forever’, and their first London date in two years. Despite their tragic history (two band members died in a plane crash in 1977, another of pneumonia in 1990) they are impressively invincible.
Rubens und Seine Zeit
‘Rubens and his Time’ is an ambitious attempt to recreate and explain the mood of 17th-century European art. At the centre of the show are 17 pieces by Peter Paul Rubens, who painted, sculpted and designed books and even buildings. His influence on the development of art is immeasurable and continues to be felt today. When bad boy Damien Hirst orders someone to do something and then claims the work as his, he’s only doing what Rubens did nearly 300 years ago.
