A cult is one that is not accountable to its members, the government and the public. Its main objective is to serve the material and spiritual interests of leadership / personality without regard for public health and order.
Now, while it goes without saying that the dancing in this show was both elegant and beautiful, I always feel a little hoodwinked when people over-politicize performances that aren’t advertised as such.
And then Xu Xinmei gave birth to a girl named Xu Xiaoying. This baby girl brought joy and pleasure to her family: sounds of happy laughter were heard in the house, and every thing was getting better and better thanks to the good housekeeper, the baby’s mother. However, the good times didn’t last for...
According to the Globe and Mail and the Metro of Canada, Alberta's culture ministry has barred a Chinese performance group from venues in both Calgary and Edmonton after their hosts took complaints of alleged unprofessional conduct to the media.
You've probably seen its postcards and promoters around town for the past month. But the classical Chinese dance and music troupe Shen Yun Performing Arts abruptly has canceled the Richmond stop on its tour, which was scheduled for May 5 at CenterStage.
The London Evening Standard reviewer who described Shen Yun as “an American-produced variety show” was right on target. After seeing the touring production at the Lila Cockrell Theater on Wednesday, we can report that that's pretty much what it is — a variety-song-and-dance show with some banter and...
Bi Daihong, one of the Falun Gong practitioners in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, was obsessed with the heretical idea of Karma elimination and totally rejecting medical help, and died of uterus cancer at a young age of 37. Astoundingly, after Bi Daihong’s death, her husband Wang Chenyang and other...
A member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who had proclaimed himself God and set himself on fire in Moscow region on Monday has died, local Investigative Committee reported on Thursday.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I attended a Shen Yun performance in Vancouver with my wife. I bought the tickets just before Christmas from sellers at a Bay store in Surrey; it seemed like it would be a fun date for us. I didn't look for reviews; it was a splurge-gift.
Wu Baoxia, who was born in October 1966, and once lived in Xuzhuang Village, Jingzhou Town, Jingxian County, Hebei Province, was crazy about Falun Gong heresy of going up to a higher level and Consummation, so she committed suicide by drinking agricultural chemicals on October 17, 1999, at the young...
When looking at this group it combines elements of balance between the physical and spiritual planes as defined within the concepts of exercise and karma. These concepts supposedly offer the practitioner a remedy of hope by obtaining a fountain of youth along with achieving the path of enlightenmen...
Shen Yun Performing Arts has canceled its May 5 performance at Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage, according to Times-Dispatch on April 28, 2012.
Having been around for a while, I sometimes lose sight of how oblique China can be for people newer to the landscape. Last week a friend asked if I might like to go to Radio City Music Hall to see Shen Yun. It s a Chinese music and dance extravaganza that plays in many major cities in America, espec...
I’m Zhang Yun, from Jiangxi Province, and now working at Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province. I had practiced Falun Gong for a period in the university. I broke away from Falun Gong soon after the government banned it, in which “a miracle of dispelling itch” intentionally made by practitioners played a...
We expected to revel in the "reviving of 5,000 years of civilization" promoted through newspaper, mall kiosks and brochures. We saw some beautiful dancing, but overall, we were given a two-hour propaganda message promoting the Falun Gong religious sect. The introductions, many of the interpretive da...