Shen Yun Tickets

The performance is beautiful and uplifting, as well as touching your soul. I have never seen any other performance like this. I recommend everyone to go. It helps you understand the true value of traditional oriental culture. The performance purifies one's heart.

If you like live performance, incredible athleticism, beauty, as well as deep content, you will enjoy Shen Yun. I've taken my parents to see the show as a treat for the past few years.

The show could have lasted 10 minutes and I would have thought that I got more value than the almost 3 hours of repetitive uninspired, unoriginal poor excuse for Chinese dance. Although the show is promoted as a traditional display of Chinese dance and arts, it really is a fund raiser for a political movement. Not only did the skip on the production value to raise more money for their cause, they failed to mention their cause in any of their advertising. The show was terrible. The message was one sided. I would not recommend this to anyone.

I didn't know what to expect exactly from this peformance so I was wonderfully surprised at such a moving performance. From the costumes, to the precision and graceful movements, to the beautiful music, this show is definitely one the entire family can enjoy. Plus a little trip into Chinese legends and culture told through the storytelling of the dances makes this show one of the most unique around.

I took my 14 yr old to see the performance; not knowing what to expect. I was thrilled that they had two MCs to narrate each scene in english and chinese. The music, dance, and costumes were beautiful. I highly recommend this to anyone.

Shen yun was uplifting for the soul and inspiring to all the senses. It touched my heart. The performers were amazing. The costumes were out of this world. I would highly recommend the Shen Yun Show for young and old.

This event was misrepresented as as a premier revue of Chinese classical arts numbers. Shen Yun had an ulterior motive that was not made clear to me in the promotional information. What began as a supposed showcase of Chinese culture slowly transitioned into a pointed political critique of the Chinese governments efforts to silence their parent organization, the Falun Gong. Though I am indifferent to their practices I was thoroughly disappointed by their deception. I have emailed them asking for a full refund.

I'm born in China, grew up in France and now work in Canada. I've been traveling a lot around the world and watched a lot of different world class shows in Shanghai, Paris, New York, Las Vegas, etc, etc... But Shen Yun is definitely the TOP of the top, the BEST show I've ever seen! So pure, so uplifting, so stunning. I've been travelling with Shen Yun from the ancient China to the present. What a magical and unforgettable journey! If you want to experience it as well, just go watch it!

I trust that my perfectly horrid dinner at the NAC's LeCafe prior to Shen Yun did not contribute to this dyspeptic review . To say the least the performance itself was disappointing : going by the advertising it turned out to be all sizzle and no steak. I cannot judge the whole performance because we left at the intermission; however what we did witness, in essence, was a series of disjointed mise-en-scenes depictlng, in historical time, the evolution of Chinese history. Any kind of narrative flow was interrupted by Barbie and her date interjecting themselves stage right a half-dozen times in order to inform the audience about what would be viewed next. There was a lot of colour, dancing in circles, pretty costumes, humdrum backdrops but nothing approaching the kind of Cirque de Soleil spectacle I had been expecting. While I support the Falun Gong in their struggle for freedom against the Chinese Communist Party, I could not abide the hackneyed, mawkish death scene of the young female teacher played out just prior to Intermission; apparently her assassination by the Chinese Communist police was because she had wanted to teach her young female students "truth" much like Socrates had wanted to teach his students two and a half millennia before her. Glaring political statements have their place but not during an evening supposedly dedicated to what was marketed as an entertaining divertissement.

"The music was fantastic, the costumes breath taking and the dance was astonishing." ---these are from two of my friends, who watched the show in Kitchener, Center In the Square on Jan 2, 2011. Then, I watched the show on the following Jan 4. I totally agree what my friends said. All the ethnic dances and folk dances derive from genuine Chinese traditional culture. the stories about Falun Dafa practitioners are also from the realities of current China, which are the source of art. The most impressive scene for me is the song that said "the sage of Legend has arrived". I believe it is something that many people in the world are looking for.

Our family of four (two parents, one six year old and a grandpa) caught this show in Toronto last spring. I had high expectations because their website makes it sound like a wonderfully informative event that sounded great fro someone who does not know much of traditional Chinese culture but would love to learn more. After buying the tickets (my bad, should have done first) I read previous reviews so I got a bit skeptical but still went in hopeful. A few of the dances were nice - my son loved the one with the twirling umbrellas in particular. Some of them were just barely average. Costumes are cheap and chintzy and it shows. If you are looking for a Broadway style and quality show, save your money. The absolute worst, most cringing moments though were - you guessed it, the contrived and syrupy odes to Falun Gong and the horrible projections of souls flying to the happy afterlife. The few opera arias were more of the same and I can only hope they don't sound as stupid in the original as they do in English. The presenters were corny and unpolished and overall I should have skipped this show. I have no problem with Falun Gong traveling the world to spread their message - whatever - but to disguise a preachy show like that as a traditional Chinese song and dance tribute is misleading. The only reason I gave it two stars is because a few of the early dances were pretty and energetic.

I took my mother and my Chinese wife to the Shen Yun show as a holiday gift and we were all very impressed with the beauty and talent in the show. The backdrops were spectacular as well. As an Asian Studies Scholar, I have seen a few Chinese shows brought here from China but this was the only show where I have seen performances respecting other cultures and regions in China. Other Chinese shows were quite nationalistic in tone. The Falun Gong pieces in the show were powerful and very well done and tasteful, but at the same time disturbing because they remind viewers that today in China anyone who does not swear allegiance to the current regime over their chosen faith, like the Falun Gong or the Christians or the Tibetans, are persecuted and slandered. Amongst paying tribute to many ethnic and ancient areas in China the show also gave a strong message that China today has lost the once cherished belief in spirituality as it once had before the communist take over. All in all the show was educational, inspirational and just plain beautiful to watch and to listen to. We all truly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone.

This is NOT a show about Chinese Culture or Art. It's a thinly disguised propaganda show put on by the Fa-Lung Gong sect to promote their brand of religion. What dancing and art we saw was mediocre at best. As for the songs they were horrible. All their so called cultural songs were merely Fa-Lung Gong hymns, performed by extremely loud third rate singers. My wife and I both left feeling used and abused. To think we paid good money to be preached to was totally unacceptable. I can now see why the Chinese Government would want to persecute these fanatical zealots. Listen, I don't mind anyone having religious freedom, there's nothing wrong with free thinking and different beliefs. But PLEASE don't charge me MONEY to PREACH to me. NOBODY likes being preached to and LIED to. We did not pay good money for a Fa-Lung Dafa SERMON. Frankly this FRAUD needs to be put out of business but judging from the countless EMPTY SEATS, this will happen in due course. If you want to be entertained, watch something else, you will not find it here.

Watched Shen Yun Show in New Year Day - very good show and the positive energy brings a piece of mind.

I saw the show with my parents in law and my daughter ,who is 12 years old,they were stunned and said that have not seen such a beautiful show in their whole live.

It is really a wonderful Chinese Traditional Show - Shenyun year-round, world-round New Year Show. Divine Performing Arts’ Chinese New Year Spectacular, a 2 1/2 -hour extravaganza featuring 21 acts, nearly 100 performers, elaborate backdrops and computerized visual elements. It is really worthwhile to find a time for going to watch it. As you know, no play only work makes you a dull ... :) I watched the Show last year which has deeply impressed me, having given me the reminiscence of the real elite part of 5000 year long Chinese Culture and Tradition. It is wondeful and superb by embodying the deeper and insightful connotation of Chinese Culture and Tradition via the very basic everyday life elements like Chopsticks, Wide Sleeves, Rice Bowls, Drums, Hand Fans, etc. It also shows how a real Classic Chinese Lady be so femininely graceful and Superior Gentleman be so chivalrously masculine. Watching the shows have given me the feel of the spiritual sublimation and the feel of the inner enlightenment to be good and kind to oneself and others in all my life, and what is the more why we shall do so; it has got me me ponder on my meaning of life, searching in my inner consicence ...

I went to Hamilton to watch Shen Yun with my daughter and a friend just before the New Year. Shen Yun is really amazing. The three of us like it so much that we look forward to watching it again on January 13 to 16, 2011 at Sony Center. The costumes, the colors and back-drop, and the live orchestra! They are all great! It is indeed like a journey taking us back to 5000 ancient Chinese Culture. The MCs speak both English and Mandarin. It is perfectly understandable for everyone.

My family went to Centre in the Square of Kitchener to watch the Shenyun show. It turned out to be such a beautiful experience. My five-year-old daughter kept clapping her hands throughout the show. We were totally carried away by the beautiful costumes, the magical backdrops and the pleasing music. It's the best New Year celebration for my family. This is the fourth time we went for Shenyun show. We will absolutely go again when Shenyun is back. I rated five stars for every program in the show. Watching Shenyun show will remain our family tradition.

My friends recommand me to see this show. At first, I doubted the value of the ticket. After last night's experience, I quickly book 4 tickets for my best friends in Toronto. I love the music. My seat was at the O row and I feel the energy from the music. Next time, I will sit more closer. The color of the screen and the costume areamazing.

Shen Yun Performing Arts puts on a superb variety show consisting of 20 numbers, 10 in each half (8 dance numbers and 2 musical performances). The numbers are all new compositions, allegedly in the style of traditional Chinese cultures extending as far back as 5,000 years. The choreography, costumes, orchestral music and scenery on the back screen (with special effects) are absolutely spectacular. The company claims to have three troupes who tour the world each year with a new show. The company is based in New York City, and is a creation of the religious group Falun Dafa. Each half includes two numbers that explicitly propagandize against the government of China, showing for example policemen coming in to arrest a teacher for putting on her classroom's blackboard a slogan of Falun Dafa. I believe that this religious group is being persecuted in China, and I am inclined to accept their portrayal of its persecution as accurate. The advertising and program for this event states that one cannot see this traditional Chinese dance in China--a claim that I doubt. The understanding of what is Chinese is quite imperial, including as it does both Mongol and Manchurian dance forms as well as dance forms of Han Chinese. It also completely lacking in any suggestion of romance or eroticism. I do not know whether the asexuality of the production is typical of the Chinese dance tradition or peculiar to Falun Dafa's interpretation of it.