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For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2CNew York City's Lincoln Center is playing host to a five show run of Shen Yun Performing Arts. The classical Chinese dance and music company aims to revive China's ancient culture... and NTD is an official media sponsor for the show in New York. We caught up with one Chinese who said he's waited for years to see the show in person... having recently arrived from the Mainland. [Wang Beiji, University Executive Director]:"Song to the dance, to the music, to the clothing, to the background, is perfect."Mr. Wang arrived in the US six months ago. After waiting more than six years, he finally saw Shen Yun Performing Arts in New York last night.[Wang Beiji, University Executive Director]:"There is pure feeling, the feeling is very simple, it is just a completely different performance."He says one of the lead male dancers left the biggest impression on him.[Wang Beiji, University Executive Director]:"Seeing Mr. Chen Yungchia dance, I was stunned! I had seen a short online introduction, but today I was lucky, really very lucky, to be so close—in the first row, to see him dance. It was very, very stunning—it's very, very perfect. Personally I think that Chen Yungchia's performance, the energy is very, very powerful."In mainland China, Shen Yun's performance is banned by the Communist authorities. Shen Yun fans, however, circulate DVDs of the performance at their own risk, allowing Chinese people to view their own traditional culture.NTD News, New York.reporter

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2CAnd the classical Chinese dance and music company Shen Yun Performing Arts is now in the middle of a five show run at New York City's Lincoln Center. NTD Television is an official media sponsor of Shen Yun in New York. Our reporter caught up with one member of the arts community who said the ancient origins of Chinese culture were fascinating to learn about.Shen Yun Performing Arts started a run of performances at New York's Lincoln Center last night.[David Rodriguez, Executive Producer, New Jersey Performing Arts Center]:"Absolutely wonderful. It's wonderful how it shows many views of Chinese culture."The first performance opened to a full house.[David Rodriguez, Executive Producer, New Jersey Performing Arts Center]:"The audience seems very appreciative and very enthusiastic and it looks as though their Lincoln Center run is almost sold out, so that's a great sign."Classical Chinese dance has a history dating back thousands of years.[David Rodriguez, Executive Producer, New Jersey Performing Arts Center]:"I thought the quality of the dance was very good. Certainly the audiences were very enthusiastic and certainly it was a gateway for people to learn more about the Chinese culture."Shen Yun draws inspiration from Chinese history and literature, as well as from China's diverse ethnic groups.[David Rodriguez, Executive Producer, New Jersey Performing Arts Center]:"It certainly looks at a number of different genres and a number of different types of dance and types of culture in China -- so it's refreshing."He plans to come back again.[David Rodriguez, Executive Producer, New Jersey Performing Arts Center]:"I certainly enjoyed coming and I brought a member of my family and I certainly look forward to seeing it again."NTD News, New York.

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2CAnd we bring you continuing coverage of Shen Yun Performing Arts' global tour. The classical Chinese dance and music show's performances are partially sponsored by NTD Television at some venues. We travel to the US city of San Fransisco where a seven show run recently wrapped up. Here's that report.Shen Yun Performing Arts concluded its seventh performance over the weekend in San Francisco, California. It was an eye-opening experience for audience members at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House.[Arthur Giacalone, Psychologist]:"Personally, I'm very impressed with the physical nature of what the performers can do. The fact that they are so flexible and maintained a sense of beauty and fluidity while they're being flexible and using their bodies—to me that's the art of peak performance."[Robin Frost, Real Estate Broker]:"They're so synchronized in what they do. And I admire the training. It's not like an overnight thing—you can tell... It's the mental. That's the discipline. It's amazing."Shen Yun is New York-based. Its mission is to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture.[Beena Raj, Lawyer]:"It is amazing to come here and see in a short time, an hour-and-a-half to two, a 5,000 year culture. It's not just the artistic part of it but it's also the cultural part of it. It's the traditional heritage part of it. It all seems to come out in one thing."One audience member who had wanted to see the performance for years finally got her opportunity.NTD News, San Francisco.

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2CAnd yesterday, NTD reporter Ben Hedges sat down with the hosts of Shen Yun Performing Arts. Their classical Chinese dance and music performance is coming up later this month in New York--a show for which NTD is a media sponsor. Here's more from Ben Hedges.[Ben Hedges, NTD News]:"Well, I'm here in the studio with Leeshai Lemish and Kelly Wen from Shen Yun Performing Arts, they are the hosts for the North American leg of the tour. First of all thank you very much for being here in the studio with us today."[Kelly Wen, Shen Yun Host]:"Thanks for having us."[Leeshai Lemish, Shen Yun Host]:"Thank You."[Ben Hedges, NTD News]:"Now, Leeshai, could you just, for our audiences at home, who might not be so familiar with Shen Yun, could you give us a little introduction, what is Shen Yun?"[Leeshai Lemish, Shen Yun Host]:"Well Shen Yun is really a celebration of 5000 years of Chinese civilization, the audience is taken on a journey through different legends and stories, and fairy tales, and regions, it's really about bringing back an ancient culture to life. And, this is done through classical Chinese dance, through music, we have an orchestra that combines both classical Western and Chinese instruments, gorgeous costumes and a digital backdrop that is projected behind the stage extending it and transporting the audience to a different time and space."[Ben Hedges, NTD News]:"So Leeshai, I'm going to test your Chinese now, could you just tell us, what does the name Shen Yun mean?"[Leeshai Lemish, Shen Yun Host]:"Well, Shen Yun is a pretty deep term that is pretty hard to translate, I would say it roughly translates as the beauty of divine beings dancing."[Kelly Wen, Shen Yun Host]:"That's perfect!"

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://me.lt/9P8MUn New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts is currently performing in both Houston, Texas and Ottawa, Canada. Our correspondent in Houston yesterday spoke with a former ballerina who really enjoyed her encounter with Chinese classical dance.Sasha Davis trained at the Royal Ballet School in London. She now lives in Houston, Texas. On Wednesday night she saw Shen Yun Performing Arts for the first time. [Sasha Davis, Former Ballerina]:"They're amazing. Technically their amazing, in their precision but also in their artistry."Ms. Davis says Shen Yun's female dancers are very feminine, but very strong. [Sasha Davis, Former Ballerina]:"And the male dancers are very strong indeed. But everyone is so light on their feet."One dance student was also impressed by Chinese classical dance.[Madison Calicchia, Dance Student]:"It was incredible. I couldn't even understand how—they were so technically perfect, with everything that they did. And it was just unbelievable."Shen Yun takes the audience on a journey from the founding of Chinese civilization 5000 years ago to the present day. [Madison Calicchia, Dance Student]:"In school I have studied Chinese history, but I didn't understand as well as just watching this show."She says Shen Yun's dancers were "amazing."[Madison Calicchia, Dance Student]:"I imagine a lot of people in the audience were probably like, 'Oh this is so great, they're amazingly flexible.' And I'm sitting there as a dancer going, 'How is that physically possible. I could never do that.' It was just amazing."NTD News, Houston

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://me.lt/9P8MUn On Friday, the classical Chinese dance company Shen Yun Performing Arts held a special show at the State Theatre in New Jersey. Shen Yun brings to life stories from ancient China's past... and present. Audience members gave the performance a standing ovation. Here's what some of them had to say.On Friday, October 28th, Shen Yun Performing Arts performed at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The show featured the company's best performances from the past five years.[Allen Davis, Retired Military Officer]:"It's the best show I think I've ever seen in my life. I'm 80-years-old, and I've never seen a show this good."Many audience members were from the arts community. William Grosso was in New York for NTD's International Chinese Vocal Competition. He also came to see Shen Yun.[William Grosso, President, Sicily Opera Academy]:"All the music, singers, dancers, everything was perfect."Musician Frank Angruloi says the dedication of the performers is evident.[Frank Angruloi, Musician]:"Well it's a very dedicated group of talented artists, and they travel the world, and they must dedicate their life to doing this as well as they do."Natalia Stepanova is a dance teacher with 20 years of experience across the world. She took her students and their parents to the show.[Natalia Stepanova, Dance Teacher]:"I was watching the reaction of my students. They couldn't bring their eyes from the stage, because it's such a unique mix of computer graphics, which attract children and help them better understand the idea of choreography and give them the beautiful historical lessons, of course five thousand years, and you can sense it. You can feel it in every move."Shen Yun's new 2012 tour will start off with shows in Dallas, Texas, December 16 through 18.

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAmong the audience at Shen Yun Performing Arts' first show at Lincoln Center in New York, fashion designer Donna Karan.[Donna Karan, Fashion Designer]:"What I loved about the show was the authenticity of it. It was taking me on a journey, to the many aspects of China. It was not just a singular performance but there were so many aspects, from the women's point of view, from the male point of view, from a history point of view, from lands that I was going to, but most of all from a spiritual level. That it was connecting the spirit and the calling of the spirit into ourselves, and realizing that's so important. It was so beautiful to see that." She enjoyed Shen Yun's bel canto style vocalists. [Donna Karan, Fashion Designer]:"I was so happy that I was able to read, the voice. The voices were extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary."Classical Chinese dance left a strong impression on her.[Donna Karan, Fashion Designer]:"And the beauty of the synergy and the movement. There was not a singular person, it moved in unison, which was so beautiful. It was a tremendous collaboration you know of a force, and each piece had it's own message. So it really did have a unique individual statement and took you to so many places. It was like going on a journey to China here in New York."Shen Yun has four more performances at Lincoln Center. The final, a matinee on Sunday.NTD News, New York

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionGranddaughter of the late Charlie Chaplin and great-granddaughter of Eugene O'Neill, actress and model Kiera Chaplin saw Shen Yun Performing Arts in New York City on Thursday night. [Kiera Chaplin, Model and Actress]:"I really enjoyed it. I thought the dancers were amazing. I loved the colors and the sets, the screen. I liked the soprano singer as well, she sang so beautifully."For her, Shen Yun was an experience to be remembered.[Kiera Chaplin, Model and Actress]:"The techniques of dancing is really incredible. And you get to travel, you are sitting in New York but you feel like you have traveled and you learn things as well so it was good."One former figure skating world champion was also at the show.[Alena Vrzáňová, Former Figure Skating World Champion]:"I've never seen anything like it. I've been waiting for it for a long time, and the unison. I used to dance and ice-skate, and this was absolutely something fantastic." NTD News, New York

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionShen Yun Performing Arts is nearing the end of its world tour, and will return to New York's Lincoln Center next month for a five-show run, with a new "best of the best" special program. The company gave a performance at the State Theater in New Jersey over the weekend.An anchor from one of the world's largest financial media agencies took her sons to see Shen Yun Performing Arts in New Jersey over the weekend.[Betty Liu, Bloomberg News Anchor]:"The costumes are beautiful. The colors. The way it's all choreographed. It's just all so well put together. I expected that anyway, but just the visual element of all of this is beautiful."[Betty Liu, Bloomberg News Anchor]:"My motivation for bringing my two children is I wanted them to learn more about Chinese culture. My family is from Shanghai and growing up in the United States I knew that I always wanted to stay close to my culture, so I wanted to bring my children here so they would learn more about China and Chinese history."[Larry Bagley, Investment Broker]:"Very thoughtful too, very mindful. It makes you think, it makes you understand, that there is a higher power that we need to be cognizant of."[Betty Liu, Bloomberg News Anchor]:"I know there's a big performance at Lincoln Center, and I think a lot of my friends who live in New York City would really appreciate it. I was telling them a bit about the performance today."[Steve Sexton, Senior Police Officer]:"All the participants in Shen Yun are the perfect ambassadors for our two cultures."In a little over a month's time, Shen Yun will return to Lincoln Center in New York City for five shows.NTD News, New Jersey

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionThe New York-based Chinese Classical dance Shen Yun Performing Arts is drawing near the end of their 2011 World Tour. Over the weekend they returned to the State Theater in New Jersey.Shen Yun Performing Arts held four shows at the New Jersey State Theatre over the weekend.[Elizan Morales, Project Manager]:"To say wow it belittles it."[Sudhanshu Prasad, Councilman of City of Edison, NJ]:"The movements, the artistry, the stage. Everything was just first-rate."[Joan Kennedy, Retired Legal Assistant]:"It brought tears to my eyes, because it was so beautiful."[Rohit Baxi, Owner, Satrangi Fusion School of Dance]:"Absolutely flawless execution of dance, beautiful formations, costumes. It gave me goose bumps a couple of times when I saw it. And I dance for a living. It was an amazing show, very, very, very well put together."[Natasha Baez, Bank Staffer]:"It made me smile the entire time."[Praveena Vijayan, Dancer]:"Each and every person do very perfect."[Phree Perkins, Dancer]:"It's amazing, and all the colors are so beautiful, and the costuming is amazing. It's incredible how they can move their bodies."NTD News, New Jersey

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionThe world's premier classical Chinese dance company, Shen Yun Performing Arts, is currently performing in Vienna, Austria. As our correspondents report, the performance made a lasting impression on the city's art community.More than 100 well known VIPs from Vienna saw Shen Yun Performing Arts premiere at Vienna's Wiener Stadthalle over the weekend.Among them, Dr. Schäfer-Elmayer, the owner of the renowned Elmayer Dance School which choreographs the Vienna Opera Ball every year.[Dr. Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer, Owner, Elmayer Dance School]:"These wonderful, expressive choreographies on one side, and then danced by really enchanting people, they can move themselves, as you can see it quite, quite rarely."The president of the Ballet Club of the Vienna State Opera was impressed by the interaction between the digital backdrops and the dancers.[Ingeborg Tichy-Luger, President, Ballet Club Vienna State Opera]:"Really, the dancers are flying from heaven, coming down on the stage. Well, it is professional, elaborate, and of course highly professionally danced."[Christa Dukor Mayrhofer, Patron, Friends of Vienna State Opera]:"I have expected a beautiful evening, but this is magnificent, which I'd have never expect. May I say why I'm this enthusiastic. The ladies' manner of movements with those little steps, I thought they were standing on a band-conveyor, like the way they moved. Then the absolute choreography, this is wonderful. It's not like a brunette, a blonde, a red, a green with their hair, but all the same cute heads. And it's like there is harmony in the movements, just adorable. And the for example when it comes to the backdrop, this wonderful backdrop, the landscape, is just stunning, so big. Due to such bliss, my eyes couldn't believe it."

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionShen Yun Performing Arts began a four-show run in Vienna starting on Sunday. The 6:00 P.M. performance evoked praise and admiration from audience members. Let's hear what some of them had to say.Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world's first Chinese classical dance and music company, presented their new 2011 program in the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna on Sunday.Joseph Reuben Silverbird is a native Apache indian from the U.S. He is an author, spiritual leader, musician and actor and is known for holding seminars around the globe.[Joseph Reuben Silverbird, Ambassador For Peace]:"I think it is wonderful, that I was invited to come, because I saw, something that is very important, the culture, the Chinese culture becoming live again. And it is important to keep it alive."[Joseph Reuben Silverbird, Ambassador For Peace]:"You do so many beautiful things during the show, talk about the old Chinese culture, and this is so important. ... Sometimes it is referred, that our culture comes from the orient someplace, Asia. So, in your Shen Yun you've done such beautiful things. I love the costumes, they are so special, but I love the dancing the precision the music, the backdrops, everything is so alive and you know, it brings back the culture in a very modern way."Board member of the Institute for Cultural Management (IKM) and board member of the Vienna University for Music, Professor Franz-Otto Hofecker says:[Dr. Hofecker, Board Member IKM]:"What the show strongly transmits, is the grand and unbelievable long tradition of culture in China, 5,000 years."The former chief of the Austrian state television archive and now honorary professor for contemporary history, Dr. Dusek, liked the historical aspect of the show.

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionShen Yun Performing Arts played its second show at the Cirkus Theatre Stockholm. We asked audience members what they thought of the performance.[Krystyna Muszynska, Restaurant Owner]:"It's a fairytale, it's a fairytale. Their costumes... their dance skills... It's fantastic. It was really worthwhile coming here to see this show."[Lars Gunnar Kjellberg, Electronic Designer]:"It's so beautiful. There is perfect timing between the artists and they move in a very artistic way. Beautiful costumes. And the stories are so interesting that my whole body was filled with joy."Shen Yun will perform two more shows at the Swedish capital.NTD News, Stockholm, Sweden

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAnd Shen Yun Performing Arts finished a four-show run in Pasadena, California on Saturday evening. Among the audience at the show were several dancers, a former soprano, and a man whose family was persecuted under Hitler's regime. Here's a look at their impressions of the performance.The final cities for this tour season are Escondido and Costa Mesa, California; as well as New Brunswick, New Jersey and Bratislava, Slovakia.Shen Yun Performing Arts impressed audience members at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium over the weekend.[Natalia Baulich, Dancer]:"I was just in awe. There were tricks, there was everything. It was outstanding, I loved it."Stefan Vogel, an award-winning Latin dancer, enjoyed seeing Chinese classical dance.[Stefan Vogel, Professional Dancer]:"That kind of dancing has the lightness from ballet, but then the energy almost from martial arts. And it was a completely new experience for us."[Betty Jean Divall, Former Dancer]:"I've been to China, but I've never seen anything like this. This is outstanding."Jill Johnson has seen the show before. This was her fourth time.[Jill Johnson, Retired Soprano]:"Beautiful. The scenery is beautiful and the costumes are wonderful and of course the dancers are marvelous. I enjoyed every bit of it."Aaron Goldhammer commented on the performance "Our Story" about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China today.[Aaron Goldhammer, Audience Member]:"My family was in Auschwitz in the 2nd World War. I found the scene where the teacher was taken by the security forces very, very telling from the story that I was taught. In 1944 my grandparents and family were also taken away for believing in certain beliefs. I found that very, very touching that a lot of that was still going on today in modern China."NTD News, Pasadena

For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionAdd us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionShen Yun Performing Arts gave its first performance in Vienna, Austria over the weekend. The audience of Vienna is known to have very high expectations when it comes to culture and performing arts. Here's more.Shen Yun Performing Arts received a heartfelt welcome at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna on Sunday. Vienna is known for its heritage of high-class cultural performances. The secretary general of the Friends of Vienna State Opera was enthusiastic about the show.[Dr. Thomas Dänemark, Secretary General, Friends of Vienna State Opera]:"Well I have to say, as I'm used to Opera and also to ballet, classical ballet, I was very, very, very enthusiastic about the performance today."He hopes his friends can see Shen Yun in the future.[Dr. Thomas Dänemark, Friends of Vienna State Opera]:"I say go and see it if you still have time, of course this week. If they come back next year again, what I hope very strongly, it will be more known and I really want to recommend it warmly to everybody."The Vienna audience is known for being demanding and critical.[Oliver H. Stadlbauer, Editor, nurKULTUR Cultural Magazine]:"For sure, the audience in Vienna - as I have observed, heard and seen - puts a especially high standard on quality and the performance and capability of expression of the singers and musicians. And the resonance was absolutely amazing, so much that one really can speak of a high level [performance]."Shen Yun has its own unique live orchestra, which combines both Western and Eastern music traditions.[Oliver H. Stadlbauer, Editor, nurKULTUR Cultural Magazine]:"A fantastic combination regarding the music, the singers, the soloists -- a really great cultural evening."Shen Yun will perform in Vienna through May 4th.NTD News, Vienna, Austria.