Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier Chinese dance and music company. Its
productions are unmatched in their color, movement, depth, and poignancy. A collaboration of leading
artists, Shen Yun seeks to breathe new life into traditional Chinese culture and to provide an
experience of sublime beauty. Its works are unique in being not only tremendously enjoyable, but
also
educational, enriching, and inspiring.
Based in New York, Shen Yun is a nonprofit organization that is independent of China’s communist
regime.
It seeks to revive the true, five-millennia-old artistic tradition of China that thrived before
decades
of suppression in China. The company’s rich repertory is drawn from the pages of history,
literature,
and universal themes. Each year, Shen Yun produces an entirely new program of dances, songs, and
musical
scores.
CLASSICAL CHINESE DANCE is one way in which 5,000 years of Chinese culture have been passed down and retained. It is a dance form built on profound traditional aesthetics. In its early days, it was conveyed primarily among the common people, in imperial courts, and through ancient plays. Over thousands of years, this art was continually organized and refined, eventually developing into the vast, systematic, and distinctly Chinese dance form we know today.
Classical Chinese dance has its own set of training methods in basic skills and has strict training in both physical expression and specific postures. It also involves combinations of leaps, turns, flips, spins, and other aerial and tumbling techniques. It is an extensive and independent system of dance.
Within classical Chinese dance lie China’s rich cultural traditions, which allow its movements to be deeply expressive, such that the personalities and feelings of characters can be portrayed with unparalleled clarity. It is therefore capable of depicting scenes from any time period, whether ancient or modern, Eastern or Western, in a strikingly vivid way.
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