"A performance as wide as Beijing, as high as Shanghai and as dirty as Shenyang. A ping pong storm breaking out over the Peking Opera."
Showcase Beat Le Mot revolve around the phenomenon of China with the help of agit-prop, sport, nutrition and abstract dance. They perform the "Lehrstück about the great dam" and the "Allegory piece to increase vigilance". Showcase Beat le Mot show how the skyscrapers of the world banks fight for the best spot downtown. They answer the question of how the wart appeared on Mao's chin and how the socialist market economy will function even better in the future.

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot / Music: Albrecht Kunze, Showcase Beat Le Mot / Choreography: Angela Guerreiro, Showcase Beat Le Mot / Sound Design: Jörn Walter, Paul Ratzel / Sinological Consultant: Matthias Anton / directing Assistant: Malin Fischer / Production Management: Claudia Plöchinger

Alarm Hamburg Shanghai is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot and Kampnagel Hamburg. In co-production with Donaufestival Niederösterreich, LOFFT Leipzig and Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Funded by Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, die Stadt Leipzig - Kulturamt, NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ as part of the co-production programm by Tanzplan Deutschland of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and  the Senate Department of Science, Research and Culture Berlin.

“… Showcase Beat Le Mot sound the alarm grandiosely …“
(Der Standard, 05.07.2005, Margarete Affenzeller, Die Genossen Performer)

“… The exhaustive dances are bursting with energy, in which the performers appear as lucky charms in lion costumes, heroic flag-wavers and inventive Tai-Chi minimalists, and the thunderous rap songs consist of sampled battle cries and screams of joy and horror....There is no doubt about it: "alarm Hamburg Shanghai" is a warning, complex and clever, funny and serious, their best performance in fact, apart from the questionable social romanticism.“
(ballet/tanz. 05/2007, Neinsager)