Chinese students attempted to have a Shen Yun performance canceled at a top Texas university in 2018 by sending requests to the university’s president and the theater tickets office, according to emails recently provided to The Epoch Times. Before Shen Yun’s performance at Texas A&M University (TAMU), a Chinese student named Tian Su, sent an…

Shen Yun Performing Arts has faced challenges in securing top-flight venues in South Korea, sparking concerns over Beijing’s interference in South Korea’s internal affairs and cultural sovereignty. New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and since its inception in 2006, it has become a global phenomenon. Using the universal language…

DEERPARK—Kenneth Porada of Cuddebackville, New York, was arrested for crimes related to repeated harassment of staff at the Dragon Springs campus. Porada, 62, was arrested by officers from the Deerpark Police Department on May 25 for throwing screws—which caused flat tires—in the driveways of Dragon Springs and about a dozen locals associated with Dragon Springs,…

In this episode of “American Thought Leaders:NOW,” we sit down with Shen Yun Performing Arts principal dancer Steven Wang. His mother was recently sentenced to four years in prison in China for practicing the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong. Since the Chinese Communist Party first launched a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Wang’s…

In this episode of “American Thought Leaders:NOW,” we sit down with Shen Yun Performing Arts principal dancer Steven Wang. His mother was recently sentenced to four years in prison in China for practicing the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong. Since the Chinese Communist Party first launched a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Wang’s…

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GUADALAJARA, Mexico—On May 10, Shen Yun Performing Arts concluded its last show of the 2023 season at Conjunto Santander Artes Escenicas in Mexico. From December 2022 to May 2023, Shen Yun’s eight equally-sized companies traveled across five continents to deliver the beauty of traditional Chinese culture worldwide. The artists were met with overwhelming welcome and…

GUADALAJARA, Mexico—Leticia Valencia, business owner, enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts with her family at the Conjunto Santander Artes Escénicas, Universidad de Guadalajara on May 9. “It’s a beautiful, beautiful show. A lot of discipline, professionalism, it is once in a lifetime. It is a beautiful show, it is precious, 100 percent recommendable,” she said. “I…

DETROIT—Dennis Murphy had long wanted to see Shen Yun Performing Arts, and learning that the New York-based company presented a China “before communism” made him all the more interested. “I learned that this is one of the things that the Chinese, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) considers its biggest threat. So that kind of put…

MEXICO CITY—Gabriel Martell, the director of GMartell School of Music Production, experienced Shen Yun Performing Arts for the first time on May 7, catching one of the last performances of the 2023 season, and the last one at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. He left inspired. “This is precisely what music is, like the…