Shen Yun Performing Arts Tickets
Eccles Theater | Salt Lake City, Utah
The amazing dance company that is Shen Yun Performing Arts comes to Eccles Theater on Tuesday, February, 21st, 2023. Based in the United States, this non-profit performing arts and entertainment company is an entertaining dance touring company, founded in 2006. They tour internationally, performing symphonic concerts and dance routines, based on old Chinese culture and traditions, drawn from the time before Communist rule. Seven performing arts companies comprise the make-up of Shen Yun, with nearly a total of 480 performers. The outfit has toured more than 130 cities internationally and the best part of 10 million viewers had watched the performances of this performing and touring company.
Shen Yun was founded in 2006. It is a non-profit performing arts and entertainment company, based in the United States. The company tours the States widely, and also internationally, performing old and traditional dance routines and acrobatic along-side symphony concerts. Shen Yun comprises seven generally identical performing arts companies, totaling 480 musicians and performers.
Since 2010, Shen Yun has performed in front of almost 10 million viewers and has toured more than 130 cities across Europe, North America, and Asia. Each touring company boasts about 40 male and female dancers, performing mainly old traditional and classical Chinese dance routines, making extensive use of tumbling and acrobatic techniques. The company stated its purpose as being to try to revive some Chinese culture and traditions from the time before Communist rule.
The performances of 2018 and 2019 became quite controversial after including lyrics and digital displays, attracting audience and critic criticism as the promoting sectarian doctrines. Negative views toward evolution, atheism, and homosexuality. The Chinese government has banned Shen Yun from performing in China and considers the group to be an "anti-society cult". Quite a few viewers commented and complained that the show was misrepresented and of being advertised as a show that, in the end, "felt more like propaganda rather than straightforwardly presentation of a cultural heritage".
