May 8 & 9 -Los Mundos de Fingerman

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Peruvians Inés Pasic and Gabriela Bermúdezfocus their body language on only a fewsmall but important parts of the humananatomy. In Los Mundos de Fingerman (TheWorld of Fingerman), a being of fingers isborn on earth and goes through a baptismof the four elements – earth, fire, water andair – to discover that we are all made of thesame matter as the worlds we travelthrough. The only sounds allowed in Pasicand Bermudez’s astounding non-verbalfinger puppetry are the musical rhythmsthat highlight Fingerman’s journey ofdiscovery. Join the digital discovery on May8 and 9 at 3 and 5pm, or at 11am on May9, Macau Conservatory; Tickets MOP$30.

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The intention is to showcase professionalMMA talent and bring more awareness of thesport to the region. A world champion fighterhimself with numerous wins under his beltincluding two times French champion of full-contact kickboxing, two times Hong Kongchampion in Koshiki karate, a Pan-Asian BJJgold medal, a bronze medal at the WorldKickboxing Championships and a worldchampionship at semi-contact, Rochepersonally handpicked the competitors basedon their compatibility and potential for aninteresting fight. The factors he consideredwhen matching fighters include weight, size,style and level. He is looking for an “explosivefight” and is keen to minimize stagnantmoments of extensive stalling or floor time.For this reason he decided to use thestandard UFC rules with two notableexceptions, for a more “intense” fight: Therewill be two 5 minutes rounds (as opposed tothe standard three rounds). And a A 30-second rule will be introduced to forcefighters to stand up if inaction or stalling isperceived for 30 seconds or longer. In trueMMA spirit, the event will be a cage, ratherthan a ring, fight. Roche feels that the cage isa novel concept for the region and adds more“spice” to the event. It also creates adifferent, more enclosed atmosphere for thefighters. He also stresses, for those moreapprehensive in the audiences, that MMA isno more violent than any other full-contactsport and is, in fact, less so than boxing, forexample. There is a reason for MMA’s growingpopularity, so, if you haven’t yet, why notcheck it out? It couldn’t hurt… well, not toomuch anyway.FURY-1: Clash of The Titans: 8pm, 21 May, Grand

Hyatt Macau; Tickets: $1880, $1580, $1280 (inc

food, champagne, unlimited house wine) from

www.cityofdreamsmacau.com or call 2525 2400

May 15 - Ennio Morricone The term Spaghetti Westerns may well have you thinking of Clint Eastwood challengingsomeone who needs a shave to “make his day”. And that is probably what the SpaghettiWestern Orchestra will do for most of their audience. This very unconventional bunch ofAustralians have lots of fun making noise with bottles, corn flakes (yes, they crush them),coat hangers, apples, squeaky toys, rubber gloves, bicycle pumps, nail clippers and otherhousehold bits and pieces they may find lying around. But it is not just cacophony – theseare comedians who make the kind of music Eastwood would be proud of. Sort of. Thinklaugh-aloud takes on tunes from movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a FewDollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West and a host of other Ennio Morricone melodies.Only five ockers make up this orchestra but between them they play 100 “instruments” torecreate the punch-ups, gunshots, jangling spurs and grunts that define the gun-slingingWest. The Spaghetti Western Orchestra plays the music of Ennio Morricone in theClementina Leitão Ho Brito Theatre from 8pm, May 15. Tickets MOP$50.

May 15 & 16 - Visual PoemsSongs and a guitar only heighten the sense of strange revelation, ‘I’ is not just the 9thletter in the alphabet, it is a boy. The dog he is playing with is ‘E’ and his friend is ‘T’, thetrampoline artist. Meanwhile ‘Y’ joins ‘U’ to make a dancer. This is the world of Spain’sCompanyia Jordi Bertran’s Visual Poems in which foam rubber letters take on lives of theirown filled with character, action, drama and humour – in other words, poetry. Enjoy thepoetry in the Macau Conservatory on May 15-16 at 11am, 3pm, 5pm. Tickets MOP$30.

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