How authentic is Shen Yun?

Shen Yun has created a performance that cannot be seen anywhere in China today. The show displays authentic Chinese culture uniquely through dance, music, and elaborate costumes. Below, are the different ways Shen Yun eloquently brings the majesty of ancient Chinese culture to the present.

Why is Shen Yun not performed in China?

In China, for over 60 years, the communist regime has treated traditional culture as a threat to its power and even today it will not let Shen Yun in to perform.

Why can’t Shen Yun perform in China?

What do the critics think of Shen Yun?

As you might expect, the official audience feedback on Shen Yun is an impressive collection of superlatives. Some are ordinary, such as “I loved it,” but many are deeply moving. Dr. Sean Nolan, a physician specializing in endocrinology, told a media outlet: “I was feeling advancement of my soul.

What is Shen Yun’s practice?

The artists who put on Shen Yun practice Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, a belief system that encompasses meditation, tai chi-type exercises, and “strict morality” (smoking, alcohol, and extramarital or same-sex sexual relations go against the teachings).

Where can I see Shen Yun in California?

Dancers in the Chinese performance show Shen Yun run through a technical rehearsal at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, CA on Friday, March 18, 2016. A Shen Yun advertisement displayed in the BART Powell St. Station. A program at a Dec. 20, 2019 performance of Shen Yun at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley.

Does Shen Yun want you to go to Heaven?

As one audience member, Dr. Henry Wall, recently remarked after seeing Shen Yun’s 2018 Production in Texas, “There is a Creator, he wants you saved and go to heaven, if you’re good you go to heaven. [These] divine concepts, tradition, family—those were to me really good things for culture to have.”