NTDTV Gives Backstage Tour at of Shen Yun

NTDTV Gives Backstage Tour at of Shen Yun
http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2010/10/04/a438139.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x696WA5SVvI

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Chinese Culture Alive in U.S.on CNN

Chinese culture alive in U.S.
A U.S.-based Chinese dance company strives to keep ancient Chinese culture alive.

Hollywood Celebrities attended the Opening Night of Shen Yun

Hollywood Celebrities attended the Opening Night of Shen Yun on 7/8/2010



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Fox Morning Show - Good Day LA showing Shen Yun Performing Arts

Here is a sampling of Shen Yun performance shown on Fox 11 Morning TV Show. Enjoy!

World-Renowned Shen Yun Performing Arts Performance Returns to LA by Popular Demand

Back by popular demand, the critically-acclaimed SHEN YUN performance returns to Los Angeles for a limited engagement, July 8th thru the 11th for 5 shows at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Shen Yun Performing Arts takes you on a magical journey spanning 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture, with a breath taking blend of music, costumes and performers, transporting you through China's magnificent dynasties via song and dance.

Shen Yun on LA CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE

So where is Shen Yun after the performance at Los Angeles?

Immediately after the performance ended on Sunday, Feburary 14, 2010, in Los Angeles, the Shen Yun Performing New York based company, flew to Asia and arrived at the Seoul Incheon Internation airport in Korea the next morning.  Shen Yun will perform 11 shows in South Korea, from Feburary 17 to March 1. 

 “We have brought with us brand new programs to South Korea. Our performances promotes true, authentic traditional Chinese culture. Since the Korean culture is connected to the Chinese culture, I think the Korean audience will appreciate our performances very much,” Ms. Tia Zhang, company manager of Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company and choreographer, said when she was interviewed by the local media.

Chinese New Year Celebrated with Shen Yun in Los Angeles

People were literally rushed in to see the last show of Shen Yun performance in Los Angeles. There were no seats except to open more seats in the upper levels. The tickets were completely sold out. People were been recommended by their friends and relatives who had seen the performance in the past days. People use all kinds of words to describe what it's like to see Shen Yun, but there is no one word can describe it. The excitement does not end here in Los Angeles, there is another Shen Yun Performing Arts tour company is just opened its first show in the first day of Chinese New Year at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Febuary 13, 2010. I heard one of the audience in Los Angeles said after seeing the this performance, the first thing he got home is to call his relatives in New Jersey to go see Shen Yun performance in Raido City.

To find out the Shen Yun performance nears you, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org

Handkerchiefs – The Origin of Cheerleading?

Today’s acrobatic and gymnastics movements such as jumps, turns, flips and other demanding aerial techniques have borrowed techniques from the classical Chinese dance from one way or the other since the classical Chinese dance has been widely spread for thousands of years in the history. How about the movements of cheerleading? After seeing the "Handkerchiefs" performance by Shen Yun, I began to wonder was there a relationship between the origins of cheerleading to the classical Chinese dance.

The movement of turning handkerchiefs really resembles where cheerleading holding pompoms, except turning the handkerchief facing you with one hand takes a lot of training and it is a challenge movement. The entire handkerchief performance is vivacious with cheerful music and colorful costumes, which signals the spring time is here. The cheerful formation is also resembled to the cheerful mood of the cheerleading, but the cheerleading looks more like a simplified version compared to how Shen Yun performed. You need to watch it yourself to know what I meant.

What other people say about the Handkerchiefs in Shen Yun?

Photographer Taken with Motion and Colour of Shen Yun

'Marvellous' Says Publisher of Influential Canadian Newspaper

Washington Celebrity: Shen Yun is ‘Fabulous, breathtaking, really special’

Shen Yun 'a thing that I’ll see as long as I live, year after year'

Shen Yun Is amazing

A Night at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

It is a legendary night accompanies with Shen Yun Performance Arts at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA Music Center. You may or may not know a traditional Chinese musical instrument called er-hu (二胡). It is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument.

In Shen Yun, there is an amazing erhu soloist called Xiaochun Qi. There is no other erhu soloist can compare to how she plays erhu on the stage. Tonight, she played “Saving the Predestined” which also composed by herself. As she begins to play the first tone, the audience is silent and time seems to be frozen. Magically, her music connects with everyone in the audience and the movements of strings tell stories. I could feel my heart as if my long forgotten memories and feelings are bringing back from time piece by piece as she moves her strings back and forth. Those feelings were hidden and buried for so long and they felt like eons have been passed. In her music, I felt that she is telling us stories that we all being through but forgotten in some lifetimes. It contained the time of glory, the time of sorrow, and the time of triumphs we shared long long time ago. It is truly amazing to watch her live performance as I wonder how two strings can do so much. I sincerely invite you to experience Shen Yun.

What other people say about Xiaochun Qi's performance?

Architects Amazed by Shen Yun
The erhu player, Xiaochun Qi, played “Saving the Predestined.” Mr. Sandoval was particularly moved by the performance. He said: “I've heard it and seen others play. I've never heard it played so beautifully.

Ms. Lau said, “Her heart sang along.”
 
Music Teacher Finds Music Uplifting
  "One of the things I loved was the erhu," he said.   The erhu is a two-stringed bowed Chinese instrument held on the lap of the player. When played slowly, it has a somewhat mournful sound. “The Chinese erhu was so moving. It went right into my heart every time it played, especially on the stage," he said.

Bank Vice-President: 'I never heard so much beautiful music before'

"I think it is marvelous, I especially like the Chinese instrument, the erhu. I never heard so much beautiful music before," she said, commenting on the instrumental piece, Saving the Predestined, performed by erhu virtuoso Xiaochun Qi.  "The performance is really great ... My friends came here for the first time and really had a good time. It is very well done—the cast members and the costumes and the whole [production]… there is a lot of different meaning in it."

Shen Yun Performance Continues in Los Angeles

The Shen Yun performance continues from today until the Chinese New Year , February 14, 2010.

Shen Yun Performance. WOW and Enjoy.

The Shen Yun performance was truly amazing and enjoyable throughout every show. When I was watching the performance, I’ve really forgotten where I was as if I was transcending to another world. I have noticed the use of color in their costumes was totally out of this world. If you have experienced in any forms of arts, you probably are more aware of some rules about how to use color to express feeling and what color to complement one color to another. Shen Yun has redefined all these rules about colors. Just by looking at the use of color itself, it is well balanced and harmonized with the movement. The colors really add up another dimension of expression and it is a pleasure to the eyes that I have never felt that way before.

Have you ever had a feeling that you feel very eager to share with your love ones? It’s like you just want to pick up the phone and call someone to share your feeling right away. When I was sitting inside and watching the Shen Yun performance, I felt like I just want to go out and tell everyone to come in to watch the show. It was just awesome and WOW.

The formation of dances, the use of color and the themes of stories can really send out powerful messages about the world where values are very essential to us and how we can learn to live by with these values that have been forgotten after millenniums of human generations.

A Reminder for KCET members

kcet.org/specialevents

In honor of Chinese New Year, KCET proudly sponsors Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Part of a 30-country world tour, Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to life classical Chinese Dance and music in a gloriously colorful and exhilarating show that's winning the hearts of audiences everywhere. KCET members receive a special 20% discount off all tickets!

Date & Time:

Friday to Sunday, February 5-14th, showtimes at 2 PM, 3 PM, 7:30 PM, and 8 PM

Location:

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
135 N. Grand Street, Downtown LA
Tickets:

20% off tickets for KCET Members.

Please call KCET Member Services at 323.953.5238 Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM to get the discount code. Buy your tickets by clicking here: http://www.laspectacular.com/

Shen Yun is finally here

On February 4, 2010, the long waited, Shen Yun Performing Arts had finally arrived to Los Angeles for its 10 shows event at Dorthy Chandler Pavilion, the LA Music Center. Although it was a little drizzle in the evening, it did not hinder the people who came to see the first performance of the tour. It was a glorious and enchants night. There were literally lines forming to be interviewed by the Ch 44.7 NTDTV news crew. Many people just could not wait to share their feelings and excitement during the intermission and after the show. A retired lawyer who could only speak Portuguese but he was so eager to share his feelings after he watched the performance, and luckily his friend could translate into English so the reporters could understand. After the performance, many people were still standing in the lobby to discuss the excitement among friends and relatives until the last minute where the theater had to be closed.

It was truly a night to be remembered....

Shen Yun is here today! Got ticket?

Shen Yun Performing Arts is performing at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - The Music Center starting today through 2/14/2010.

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Shen Yun Performing Arts presents classical Chinese dance and music in gloriously colorful and exhilarating shows. An art form several millennia old, Chinese dance is refreshingly dynamic and expressive. Ancient legends and heroic figures come to life through its leaps, spins, and delicate gestures. The Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York based performing group, is truly a god send from divine. Its mission is to restore the essence of the traditional Chinese arts through the most fundamental but profound form of arts. From its simple gestures to magnificent color on the Tang customs, every moment, every show brings back the tradition piece by piece. There is nothing to translate since its dance performances transcend its divine message and convey deeper meaning that all human beings share across the culture and time. It is a truly a Chinese Renaissance.

Shen Yun on Morning Show in LA - KTLA

Shen Yun Performing Arts on Channel 5 KTLA on Febuary 3, 2010

Featuring Classical Chinese Dance

Ancient Chinese Culture Comes to Live through the Shen Yun Performing Arts

The richness in the traditional Chinese culture is what fascinating us the most. Its philosophies and its uniqueness of the culture in a long history have made it distinct from the western world. Although the Chinese culture is made up of many dynasties, the Tang dynasty is the best dynasty to represent what the traditional Chinese culture is and since it was at a golden era for the ancient Chinese civilization as it reached its apex both in its cultural development and technological advancement.

The Chinese people believe that their culture was not evolved or created by the people, but rather it was created by a divine source called Shen in Chinese. It has been passed down from generation to generation. All its ways of life and science are derived in some forms of divine or from Heaven. In ancient China, the Chinese called its land as the Land of the Divine or Shen Zhou.

The word "culture" is not merely a category of interests we often used in the modern days but rather it is what defines all of us. It is passed down from generations through various forms. Most noticeably are the language we spoke and the writing we use to record our lives. It is deeply rooted in our languages that same words from different culture may have totally different connotations in its meaning. Due to the linguistic limitation, a culture has been expressed and passed down by arts. Especially for ancient Chinese art, it has been expressed from simple household pottery to Imperial dance and opera. It was in this type of form, a culture is able to be preserved and continued.

The traditional Chinese culture is deteriorating rapidly especially in the last 60 years. This is mainly not due to modernization, but it was systematically destroyed by the communist regime in China. From the replacement of traditional writing to simplified (non-logical) writing, it has lost its cultural meaning within each character. Under its ruling, it turned divine loving people into atheists. Destroying traditional philosophies both the Confucianism and Taoism, and replacing them with horrible communism. Sadly, in the present time, the essence of traditional Chinese could hardly be found in the mainland China. But fortunately, there are many traditions still being kept by the overseas Chinese people.

The Shen Yun Performing Arts, a New York based performing group, is truly a god send from divine. Its mission is to restore the essence of the traditional Chinese arts through the most fundamental but profound form of arts. From its simple gestures to magnificent color on the Tang customs, every moment, every show brings back the tradition piece by piece. There is nothing to translate since its dance performances transcend its divine message and convey deeper meaning that all human beings share across the culture and time. It is a truly a Chinese Renaissance. Touring 220 cities globally and it is absolutely no language or culture barrier, and many have learned to appreciate the true ancient Chinese culture. Have you watched it? Check out for the tour near you.

Shen Yun on FOX 5

On FOX 5 at Atlanta, "Good Day Xtra"