Shen Yun Performing Arts has been delighting Japanese audiences since 2007, with its stunning portrayal of traditional Chinese culture. As the company prepares to launch its 2025 global tour, two Japanese dignitaries share their reflections on the show and what makes it so impactful. Hirosato Nakatsugawa is a former member of the Japanese Parliament and […]
Commentary The New York Times plans to continue publishing articles that undermine Shen Yun Performing Arts, with its latest focus being on the group’s financial operations, sources reveal. Shen Yun is a U.S.-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, which discloses its financial status to the public as required by laws and regulations. Nonetheless, The New York Times […]
A senior investigative reporter at The Epoch Times says Shen Yun Performing Arts’ latest warning about Beijing’s ability to spread false news stories and narratives in the United States is well founded. Joshua Philipp is an expert on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) efforts to influence American society. In a recent statement, New York-based Shen […]
An elite dancer must master many skills; and a whole lot more goes into being a good person—Shindy Cai believes there’s a strong connection between the two. Cai and half a dozen other dancers and musicians with Shen Yun Performing Arts recently shared with The Epoch Times their journey on the path toward virtue and […]
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has taken Europe by storm in recent years, performing for full houses at top venues across the continent. Months in advance of its 2025 performances, several cities are already out of tickets. Leipzig, Germany, which welcomed Shen Yun for the very first time last season, has already sold out […]
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts says a recent U.S. lawsuit filed against it appears to be part of a broader campaign to malign the company and shut it down. Shen Yun is an elite dance company that aims to revive traditional Chinese Culture. The company has been targeted by the Chinese regime for almost […]
Three and a half months before Shen Yun Performing Arts is set to grace the stage of the Leipzig Opera again, tickets are already sold out. Leipzig, Germany—once home to Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and briefly Friedrich Schiller as he wrote his famous poem “Ode to Joy”—remains home to major cultural institutions such as the […]
A civil complaint filed last month against Shen Yun Performing Arts is “undoubtedly part of a coordinated offensive against our company being orchestrated by the Chinese regime,” the arts company said in a statement on Dec. 3. The woman who filed the lawsuit has been linked to a Chinese government entity and has contributed interviews […]
With an exquisite, all-new production, the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company is about to kick off its annual global tour just before Christmas. After nearly two decades of mesmerizing audiences with stunning dance, music, and visual effects, Shen Yun is set to continue its mission of reviving traditional Chinese culture with its 2025 tour. With a […]
The head of China’s Ministry of State Security, Chen Yixin, is personally driving a smear campaign in the United States against Shen Yun Performing Arts, a whistleblower within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) security apparatus recently revealed. Shen Yun, a premier classical Chinese dance and music company, has been a prime target of the CCP […]
Lillian Parker is a rising star at Shen Yun Performing Arts and one of the company’s few non-Chinese performers. She has toured with the company multiple times over the last seven years as part of a special practicum training program for promising young dancers at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts and Fei Tian College. […]
The New York Times is relying on sources with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). NTD has been reporting on the dance company Shen Yun Performing Arts, founded by Falun Gong practitioners in the United States, that is now being targeted by The New York Times. How does a once-respected news outlet fall […]
The New York Times has once again attacked Shen Yun Performing Arts in another hit piece. The article targets Shen Yun’s practicum program, which is approved by the New York State Department of Education. Levi Browde, executive director of Falun Dafa Information Center, said the Times’ narrative parrots Chinese Communist Party propaganda against a Chinese […]
An American dance company has become a victim of a string of hit pieces by The New York Times. Since its inception, New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has been on the receiving end of a relentless sabotage campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Through classical Chinese dance, ancient Chinese myths and legends are […]
The latest in a string of attacks by The New York Times against Shen Yun Performing Arts—the world’s premiere classical Chinese dance company—is not only factually inaccurate, but misrepresents the company’s culture, according to current and former staff members. In its latest article, published on Nov. 17, The New York Times misrepresents a practicum arrangement […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—A Chinese agent who tried to bribe the IRS and manipulate the agency into advancing Beijing’s transnational repression against a U.S. nonprofit has received a 20-month prison sentence. U.S. citizen John Chen, 72, was a principal actor in a $50,000 bribery scheme under the direction of a Chinese intelligence official to revoke the […]
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world’s premiere classical Chinese dance company, says that the latest in a string of articles by The New York Times attacking the group is “riddled with inaccuracies.” “The recent Times articles that have appeared over the past several months are precisely an attack on the faith that drives […]
The New York Times is preparing to again attack New York-based performing arts company Shen Yun and the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, The Epoch Times has learned. For nearly two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has targeted Shen Yun, whose mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture. The company was founded in 2006 by […]
If you are curious about Shen Yun, the world-touring and globally acclaimed performing arts troupe, but aren’t quite sure what it’s all about—here’s a special opportunity! Shen Yun specializes in classical Chinese dance. In this rare event, which was recorded on September 17th, the Chinese mid-Autumn festival, at Shen Yun’s headquarters north of New York […]
Commentary When Simone Biles warmed up for the preliminaries in the Paris Olympic Games, she injured her calf and limped, at times crawled, off the deck. But because she is Simone Biles, the best athlete in the history of gymnastics, she fought through the pain, and two weeks later she returned with three gold and […]
