Shen Yun Performing Arts

Shen Yun Performing Arts is a music and dance ensemble based in New York, whose artists are mostly followers of Falun Gong.

Repertoire

Shen Yun shows according to its own description mainly classical Chinese dance, Chinese folk dances and dances of national minorities of China, accompanied by an orchestra of traditional Chinese and classical Western instruments from.

Reviews

According to an article on the website of The Epoch Times, which has close Falun Gong, the Broadway critic Richard Conema praised the beauty and representational perfection of a demonstration of the ensemble.

Judith Mackrell wrote in the Guardian that quickly turned out at a demonstration that "it is the mission of production, to protest against the communist regime in China." It should be a screening of " creepy missionary" and " presented in the style of a Disney production, with brightly colored, sparkling versions of traditional costumes," if it were " a strange mixture of propaganda and shine ".

Sue Cromptron wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Shen Yun: " acrobatics, song and dance are used in the service of a propaganda exercise for Falun Gong ... "

Susan Walker titled in the Toronto Star, a show of Shen Yun Chinese New Year as "pure propaganda " for Falun Gong.