Shen Yun Performing Arts: The Significant Cultural Event of Our Time

“So it was wonderful to come and see. I could really understand the training and everything that needed to be done to put on this fantastic performance. Very, very impressive.” “It is beautiful. It is absolutely stunningly beautiful. The colors, the movement, the precision, the acrobatics—it was just amazing.” “I was very interested in their […]

“I was incredibly impressed. I come from a musical and dance background. I am both an instrumentalist, a vocalist, and a dancer. And it has been a long time that I have seen something this high quality. Very unique, very colorful. Vivid colors were pleasing to the eye.” “Not only impressed technically but also with […]

“Fantastic, out of this world. The combination of the music, the dancing, the visual effects—amazing performance.” “The costumes are just beautiful. The costumes are so colorful and they match the scenery in the background [digital backdrop]—the visual effects. The colors are so vibrant and it really makes the performers stand out even more and it […]

“I liked the colors, beautiful dancing, … the set design was beautiful.” “The artistry is amazing. I also like the 3-dimensional screen [digital backdrop] in the back—the way it projects is amazing.” “[The music] is beautiful. It’s very tranquil. It’s very calming.”

“The Shen Yun performance was fascinating and amazing. The perfection of the performance, the colors, and the music—everything harmonized perfectly.” “The reality of today’s society [was] presented through different scenes [that] were unimaginable before having seen this show. It was done extremely well.” “It is so important to bring to society ancient, traditional Chinese culture, […]

“I have not seen anything like this before! Absolutely beautiful! Besides the excellent dancing, the costuming was fantastic, and the graphics and the visuals were wonderful. I enjoyed every one of the programs and the entire evening.” “I [felt] amazed, just amazed! The talent was incredible.” “[The dancers] were excellent! Just excellent!” “This is my […]

“It was the most amazing show I’ve ever seen in my life. My daughter is a soprano, so that was the reason behind coming, but I would come again.” “It [the dancing] was stunning.” “I’m very grateful that they have [traditional Chinese culture] and brought it here so that we could be exposed to it.” […]

“It was fantastic. I loved it. I especially loved the lady that played the [erhu]. She was fantastic. The [vocal soloist], he was very good too.” “It really evoked a lot of emotion for me. … I’d probably start listening to Chinese opera if I get to listen to more of that music.” “What I […]

“It was very colorful. The costumes were great—the layers of color were gorgeous.” “The [erhu] soloist’s performance was very moving. I was touched. It was great.” “Most Japanese have grown up with a certain degree of familiarly or fondness about China’s [traditional] culture or music. … So I had this feeling of fondness about [what […]

“[Shen Yun’s dancing is] absolutely amazing, and so tightly choreographed [and] executed, so tightly synchronized. I’m super impressed with that part of it—really, really impressed. It was so synchronized that it was almost like a solid unit—I really enjoyed that.” “I actually learned that they didn’t allow this in their country, which is shocking.” “I […]

“It’s phenomenal. It’s good.” “The choreography is phenomenal. I liked the long sleeves [vignette]. It was very vivid, very elegant, which I liked, and also the chopsticks [vignette] was very awesome.” “The sleeves were just so elegant, and the beauty and symmetry of everything was just phenomenal. … The pop of the sleeves and they’d […]

“I loved it. The costumes were brilliant, very brightly colored, and very pretty. The dance moves were very impressive and very athletic and graceful at the same time, and the backdrop and music were well coordinated, and very bright and beautiful.” “[The dancers were] very impressive and very athletic too. You could just tell that […]

“It’s a very good show. I didn’t know much about it coming in. I like the fact that it shows a broad range of the Chinese culture.” “[I feel] enlightened.” “I feel it was educational, very interesting.” “I think it’s very well done, the fact it’s [Falun Gong and the persecution in China] integrated into […]

“It’s beautiful! It’s perfect. It appeals to my sense of beauty and logic. Every single time when the [long, flowing] sleeves go up, they all look the same, and I love that! The symmetry that I see, and all the colors—they appeal to me. … I just love it. It’s beautiful.” “[The storytelling] is great, […]

“The Shen Yun performance was outstanding. It was fascinating that Shen Yun brought stories from ancient times. Then the accompanying music gave it a special nuance—marvelous.” “A divinely inspired culture is being revived. I deeply felt a connection to the divine.” “Just addressing the dancing, it was a peak performance.” “I found the show to […]

“[Shen Yun] showcases Chinese culture perfectly, and I feel that every performer has very strong energy.” “The performance is terrific.” “Shen Yun music is so powerful. It’s really marvelous! I feel very comfortable after listening to it.” “The female performers are very tender and graceful. …” “The synchronization between the digital backdrops and the performers […]

“I am so touched by the skills of the performers, and I enjoyed the [digital] backdrop and how the stories were told [through the dance].” “The ‘erhu’ is an instrument that is well-known in Japan, but we are not familiar with the sound, the rhythm that this instrument [can produce]. What I heard today gave […]

“I really love the music. And I also love the singing [and] the songs. And I thought it was very moving, very touching.” “The spiritual sentimentality, the idea of the fact that we are all together, that we are all in this, and we are moving towards a place that is very spiritual—it is a […]

“[The soprano’s] vocals were awesome. And it impressed me that, the way we work on our vocals, with the American-taught way, it is so different from what I heard her doing it. She did it so perfectly. She never wavered, every note was clear. And you got the feeling. She just put all the feelings […]

“That was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. That was incredible, just the musicianship of all the people, and the dancers, and the [erhu] soloist, that was incredible.” “I felt very entertained, and I felt enlightened in a way. I learned a lot more about Chinese culture, which I really didn’t know. I […]

“It was wonderful, beautifully choreographed. The performers are exquisite.” “The orchestra was quite exceptional, and I loved the way that the emcees introduced [the orchestra]. It was one of the funniest and most charming introduction of an orchestra I’ve ever seen.” “The soloist on that ancient musical instrument [erhu], exquisite—it was so fine. Both of […]

“It’s just fantastic. I would highly [recommend] anyone to come and see this.” “[The dancers] are incredible. It was interesting for me to learn that what we consider gymnastics is actually rooted in classical Chinese dancing. I thought that was really cool.” “[The music] is beautiful! It’s absolutely beautiful. It’s soothing and it’s inspiring.” “I’m […]

“[It was] fantastic.” “I enjoyed it tremendously. I’ve always wanted to do backflips, but I never could. Seeing them do that so effortlessly was just tremendous.” “I enjoyed the orchestra very much. I was checking them out with binoculars.” “[The erhu solo was] soulful, very soulful.” “The vocal power that they had, the opera singers, […]

“Beautiful choreography. Beautiful dance. Beautiful music. Just the colors, the costumes—just simply amazing. “I think the revival [of traditional Chinese culture] is fantastic. … I think it [the culture] is beautiful. I think it is true to their beliefs, to their hearts, and true to who they are, and [to] have that suppressed is just […]

“It’s extraordinary. It’s wonderful. It’s incredulous how people can choreograph their movements so precisely. … I just appreciate how much work something like this requires.” “The stories are tender and deep at the same time, … because they touch on spiritual themes, which are universal. It’s beautiful to watch it unfold and be enacted by […]

“It is really beyond our expectation. It was just fabulous. They are all so talented. And the timing—it is such perfection. …. It is really unbelievable.” “The way [the dancers] synchronize all their movement, and it joins in with the screen [animated digital backdrop], so that you almost feel like they are flying around. …” […]

“It was amazing, and I feel great respect for the effort and the achievement made by the performers.” “I was astounded by the unbelievable flexibility displayed by the young dancers, and the staging of the entire performance. The entire performance was perfect.” “The stories are very inspirational. I’m very impressed.” “I again learned of the […]