Knowing the True Nature of Shenyun Performances () Trujth Magasine Shenyun Editor of the Asian Edition of American and Dances
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Wwww.chinesepress.com Knowing the true nature of Shenyun performances () Trujth Magasine Shenyun editor of the Asian edition of American and dances. In some of the shows, they ar t cr it ic Jo rd an Be th Vin ce nt art group is an affiliated cult group Foreign Policy Magazine Isaac Stone have claimed themselves to be greater commented on the Shenyun gala on directly led by the leader of Falungong Fish wrote an article on the foreign than Buddha and are God reincarnated the website of the Times in Australia Li Hongzhi. Shenyun art group has policy website criticizing the Shenyun leaders or prophets, who teach on May 28th, 2010 and pointed out staged numerous performances around performance of falungong as a political fol low ers to acquir e eterna l life that Shenyun performacnce conceals the world in the disguise of spreading display. through fanatic behaviours. the purpose and content of the show in traditional Chinese culture, and its advertising materials. boasted that such performance implies On March, 18th, 2014, the According to the article in (Martha Schabas) the sacred beauty of the five thousand American paper LA Weekly publishes Telegraph of February 25th, 2008, Yelp and Tirpadvisor are the reminding readers that Shenyun years Chinese history, and is a an a rti cle of t he f amo us As ian Shenyun, making propaganda by the most well-known review websites in performance has something to do with lifetime wonder that can t be missed, American cultural critics Ada Tseng, na me of en te rt ai nm en t, al l t he Europe and America. Many foreign the cult Falungong . The viewers deluding ignorant audiences to come which pointed out that Falungong and acrobatics, singing and dancing and viewers who watched the Shenyun need to understand in advance the and watch. Li Hongzhi himself made a Shenyun performances are pure other performances at the party serve gala left messages on the website, inflammatory political subtext buried public announcement that Shenyun propaganda dressed up as traditional to propagandize Falungong. saying that the performance is inferior inside the performance. performances are held by different Chinese dance shows. and is simply a blasphemy of art. It Shenyun performance tarnishes is more like spending money on a Falungong groups around the world, A New York Times article titled The article the political Chinese culture with its low quality and that the performances are not show presented by neighbor s intentions of Falungong new year s a Chinese cultural performance that meant to entertain the ordinary people, daughter. gala questioned by Americans on On January 2nd, 2015, Canadian viewers can t bear to finish watching but to present the capabilities of Falun January, 9th , 2008 said that the gala visual artist and curator Ingrid A professional folk artist and mentions that many people are going worshippers, which focus on saving spr ead a cl ear -cu t me ssa ge t hat Meyerhofer, posted article on traditional magician in Tokyo, Japan for dancing, singing and acrobatics. the people and revealing the truths. undermines the Chinese government thespec.com and described her s p e n t a l o t t o s e e S h e n y u n However they do not know the The fact is, the so-called Shenyun and boasts Falungong. experience from booking to being performances, saying that it was very differences between evening gala and performance is not some art show at all, forced to watch Falungong Shenyun rough, and that he himself fell asleep Falungong. When the cult belief and its true nature is for cult and anti-China Shenyun performance is pure performances. From her point of view, after watching for 30 minutes. political intentions of "Falungong" publicity, expanding influence and propaganda for Falungong there is fraud with the ticket sales on started to be blended into the gathering money. Shenyun tarnishes Shenyun s website, and although More and more people see performance, some people began to and twists the traditional Chinese On February 7th, 2013, Shenyun claims to be propagating through the true nature of Shenyun feel deceived and chose to leave. culture, while deceiving, fooling and Washington Times published an article Chinese traditional culture, the gala China, which has entered a new poisoning the people. by Terry Ponick, an independent performances actually focus on era, is gradually heading toward the journalist, named Shenyun: promoting Falungong, and telling lies Venn Viggs, chief technology Political intentions are hidden center of the world. Under the Conflicts of Art, Truth and Politics at about being persecuted by the Chinese of fi ce r an d vi ce pr es id en t of behind those Shenyun Performances spotlight of the world stage, the the Kennedy Center, saying that government. Amazon.com, commented on his Falungong is anti-science, and the p e r s o n a l Tw i t t e r a c c o u n t , world s attention for China and for March, 3rd, 2017, Canadian Communist Party's persecution of The British Evening Banner did Unfortunately, Shenyun is an out- Chinese history and culture are newspaper the Globe and Mail She nyu n gr oup or i ts p rai se o f a report named Shenyun tarnished and-out propaganda tool of Falungong, increasing. With its profound essence publishes an commentary by woman Falungong is propaganda of itself. Chinese culture. It is a pity that the spreading the idea that revolution is and rich and colorful forms, Chinese author, dance commentator and artist Some viewers said directly that evening gala is so old-fashioned and e v i l , d e f i n i t e l y n o t f o r culture has provided a gluttonous feast Martha Schabas. The writer describes Shenyun is propagating cult. sad. The host is awkward and absurd. recommendation. for all countries in the world. We hope her feelings before and after watching The projection on the back of the that, people from all over the world Shenyun performances by Falungong On December 25th, 2010, a screen is dumbfounding and the dance Th e w eb si te of th e U .S . will know how to identify true culture group in Toronto, criticizing the group critic of performing art John Fleming performance shames the dance Constitution of Atlanta published a while enjoying this feast, and try not to for publicizing Falungong for indecent of St. Petersburg Times posted a blog directors. news report titled The Return of be deceived by fake cultural political motives in the disguise of art. saying th at Shenyu n perform ances Shenyun, seemingly splendid mixed performances such as Shenyun gala, conveys political messages with songs A famous Australian dancer and with sedit ious polit ical lines , and miss authentic Chinese culture. On April, 29th, 2015, the chief Wwww.chinesepress.com.