World’s premier classical Chinese dance company
Shen Yun Performing Arts concluded its 2025 world tour on May 11, wrapping up an extraordinary season that reached over a million audience members across more than 760 performances. The final shows took place in Philadelphia, Providence, Nashville, and Paris. This year’s tour spanned major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A highlight came in Rome, where
Shen Yun returned for the first time in nearly seven years and was honored with a special welcome reception hosted by Italian senators.
“You represent beauty. You represent the divinity of the human being. And the dance is exactly the expression of all this,” said Sen. Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, the Senate’s EU Affairs Committee president and former Italian foreign minister. “
Shen Yun represents values, which are values of peace, solidarity, [and] human understanding.”
Former Argentine Vice President Carlos Ruckauf attended
Shen Yun’s performance in Buenos Aires on April 17.
“I think this show is artistically excellent. I highly recommend watching it due to the level of the music, the soloists, and the dancing. And also due to its spiritual message, which is very important,” said Carlos Ruckauf, the former vice president of Argentina.
Hermann Tertsch, a member of the European Parliament from the Vox party, felt that even eight
Shen Yun companies are not enough to meet the global demand.
“I'm told there's eight already, eight [groups] on stage all over the world, I wish there were eighty, and I hope soon there will be eight hundred,” said Hermann Tertsch, a European parliament member “Beautiful show, magnificent, and also it's very inspiring to recover this magnificent effort to really bring back the authentic China, the spiritual China, the China of a 5000 year old culture.”
Some cities welcomed
Shen Yun for the first time this season, including Riga, the capital of Latvia, marking the company’s historic debut in a former Soviet Union country. Meanwhile, Paris hosted
Shen Yun’s longest run, spanning from April through May.
“Today, I came to see the remarkable
Shen Yun Show. It is extraordinary. It’s part dream, part enchantment. The color, the dance, the dreams, the sets, everything is absolutely remarkable,” said Thierry Frappé, a French parliament member.
New York City’s Lincoln Center hosted 18 sold-out
Shen Yun performances, with audiences praising the production’s beauty and hopeful message.
“You're doing wonderful work, and I think it should be much appreciated and will be much appreciated around the world. People don't realize the contribution that has been there in the past, what is now, and what will be the future. The future of the world is in our hands, and we won't outlive it, but it will outlive us. And the good work that's being done like this will transcend time,” said Frederick Newcomb, an investment banker and president of a financial service.
“You can't watch this and not be happy. There is such happiness, even though there is repression from communist China, there is an evolution through it. Humanity evolves beyond such dreadfulness. It's just happiness throughout,” said Michael Cogdill, an award-winning journalist and anchor.
Archbishop Makarios, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia, attended
Shen Yun’s performance in Sydney and later sent a letter praising the artists for their “brilliant artistic revival” of a divinely inspired culture.
As
Shen Yun’s popularity grows, performers and staff have faced increasing threats and harassment from the Chinese communist regime. The company cannot perform in China, as its mission is to show the world 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture before communism. In February, a bomb threat forced the evacuation of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the morning of
Shen Yun’s opening performance.
“I found
Shen Yun was really a testimony to the true nature of what China could be if they were given an opportunity to be free, an opportunity to have a true Chinese culture that goes back thousands and thousands of years,” said Michael Flynn, a retired Lt. general.
Despite such threats, audience enthusiasm for
Shen Yun remains strong, as the company now prepares an all-new production for 2026.
NTD News, New York
