Audience enjoy the Shen Yun Performing Arts opening show in the William B. Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Ga. on Dec 19, 2009. (Renee Luo/The Epoch Times)
With a foundation in classical Chinese dance that encompasses flips, turns, and delicate, meticulous movements, Shen Yun’s dances celebrate a wide span of Chinese traditions, tales, and peoples, and strive to exhibit the universality of classical Chinese dance.
Shen Yun has traditionally performed dances that tribute Chinese minority ethnic groups, and this season is no different. Shen Yun’s new ethnic dances include In a Miao Village, which elegantly depicts the Miao people’s elaborate headdresses and ornate silver jewelry, and Dance of the Dai, which features the Dai people’s fluid arm and finger movements.
Shen Yun also choreographs dance compositions that recreate ancient folk tales on stage. In one folk tale-inspired dance of the new tour, Wu Song Battles the Tiger, the hero Wu Song stumbles into the woods drunk and fights off a man-eating tiger. In another, Splitting the Mountain, goddess San Sheng Mu falls in love with a mortal and they have a son. But San Sheng Mu is trapped inside a mountain by her angry brother, until eventually her son comes to save her.
This upcoming year, Shen Yun plans to perform more than 400 shows in four continents and dozens of countries around the world.
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