Shen Yun Performing Arts Returns to Orlando

Shen Yun Performing Arts returns to Orlando

Shen Yun Performing Arts are back in Orlando. This group of talented performers is a United States-based non-profit performing arts and entertainment company that tours internationally, producing dance performances and symphony concerts.

What is Shen Yun?

Shen Yun Performing Arts are the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Shen Yun was established in New York in 2006 by elite Chinese artists. They came together with a shared vision and passion—to revive the lost world of traditional Chinese culture and share it with everyone.

What Does Shen Yun Mean?

The name Shen Yun means the beauty of divine beings dancing, and that is what the audience experiences. Shen Yun now has seven equally large companies that tour the world simultaneously, bringing an all-new performance of dance, costumes, animated backdrops, singing, and music to over 150 theaters every year.

The Founding of Shen Yun

Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by Chinese expatriate adherents of Falun Gong and is based at Falun Gong’s 427-acre (1.7 km2) Dragon Springs compound in Deerpark, New York, northwest of New York City, near where the new religious group’s leader and founder, Li Hongzhi, and many of his followers also reside. Falun Gong adherents pay to rent the performance venue, promote the show, and sell tickets, with the profit going to Shen Yun. The finances of Shen Yun and Falun Gong appear to be linked, with technically separate corporations sharing funds, executives, and the same mission. Li Hongzhi describes the Shen Yun performance as a means of “saving” audiences.

Artists Of Shen Yun

Angelina Wang

Born in: Xi’an, China
With Shen Yun Since: 2007
Angelia Wang won first place (junior female division) in New Tang Dynasty Television’s 2009 and 2010 International Classical Chinese Dance Competitions. She won first place (adult female division) in the same competition in 2012. She studied classical Chinese dance at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Classical Chinese Dance from Fei Tian College in New York.

Chinese Name: Wang Chen (王琛).
Meaning of Chinese given name: Chēn (琛) means precious treasure.
Nickname: Chao-Chao. My grandpa gave it to me. It means to excel.

Melody Qin

Born in: Liaoning, China
With Shen Yun Since: 2008
Melody Qin won first place in New Tang Dynasty Television’s 2012 International Classical Chinese Dance Competition (adult female division) and won third place in the competition’s junior division in 2010. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Classical Chinese Dance from Fei Tian College after studying classical Chinese dance at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts, both in New York.

Chinese Name: Qin Ge (秦歌).
Born in: Liaoning, China.
Favorite prop: Silk fans.
Favorite tour country: Japan.

Hsiao-Hung Lin

Born in: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
With Shen Yun Since: 2009
Hsiao-Hung Lin won first place in New Tang Dynasty Television’s 2014 Classical Chinese Dance Competition (adult female division), and first place in the same competition’s junior division in 2012. She studied classical Chinese dance at the New York-based Fei Tian Academy of the Arts and Fei Tian College.

  1. Repertoire Highlights
  2. Abetting the Wicked (2020)
  3. Goodness in the Face of Evil (2019)
  4. Lost in a Painting (2019)
  5. Unprecedented Crime (2018)
  6. Awakening (2018)
  7. Fairies of the Sea (2016)
  8. Dance of the Li (2015)
  9. The Steadfast Lotus (2014)
  10. Sand Monk is Blessed (2013)

Evangeline Zhu

Born in: China
With Shen Yun Since: 2013
Evangeline Zhu won first place in New Tang Dynasty Television’s 2016 International Classical Chinese Dance Competition (adult female division), after having won first place in the same competition’s junior female division in 2014. She studied classical Chinese dance at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts and Fei Tian College in New York.

More Dancers Include:

Michelle Lian

Piotr Huang

Jay Huang

Victoria Li

Albert Yang

Carol Huang

Victor Li

Elsie Shi

Angela Xiao

William Li

Miranda Zhou-Galati

Daoyong Zheng

Chad Chen

Kaidi Wu

Choreographers

 

Yungchia Chen

Born in: China
With Shen Yun Since: 2007
Yungchia Chen is currently an instructor at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts in New York and was formerly a lecturer in dance at Central University for Nationalities in Beijing. Before coming to the United States, he was a council member of the Dance Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Trained in Chinese classical and folk dance, along with ballet, he won first place in New Tang Dynasty Television’s 2007 International Classical Chinese Dance Competition, the International Cultural Exchange Award (top honor), and the Silver Medal in choreography at Japan’s Kitakyushu International Dance Competition, as well as both the Silver Medal (performance) and the Gardener Award (pedagogy) in China’s National Peach and Plum Cup Dance Competition.

Michelle Ren

Born in: China
With Shen Yun Since: 2006
Michelle Ren began training in artistic gymnastics at age 6. At China’s National Artistic Gymnastics Competition she took fourth place, and at Liaoning province’s Peach and Plum Cup Dance Competition she took first place in her division (youth). She was later second runner-up in the national Popular Culture Award Competition of China. In 2007, she won first place in the adult female division of New Tang Dynasty Television’s International Classical Chinese Dance Competition.

Composers

Jing Xian

Born in: China
With Shen Yun Since: 2006

Jing Xian became a professional pipa (Chinese lute) player at the remarkable young age of 15. During her four years at the China Conservatory, she pursued studies in composition, music literature, and ethnomusicology. Many musical pieces written by her have won composition prizes. Later, Jing Xian was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University to pursue a master’s and a doctorate in ethnomusicology. She has also studied computer-based composition and music technology at Britain’s Reading University.

Born in: China
With Shen Yun Since: 2006
Junyi Tan studied music at the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and formerly served as a pianist and accordionist with China Opera and Dance Theater. An active member of the community in his new home of the U.S., he served as director of the San Francisco Silicon Valley Choir and as a committee member on the San Pablo City Arts Committee.

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