Shen Yun Performing Arts brings classical Chinese dance to Hub City
The world-famous Shen Yun Performing Arts is coming to The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences on Tuesday.
Shen Yun Performing Arts is a classical Chinese dance company. Its mission aims to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture — much of which was lost when communism took over the nation, according to a news release.
In Chinese, Shen Yun means “the beauty of heavenly beings dancing.”
Shen Yun is a performance of classical Chinese dance as its hallmark, along with a range of traditional Chinese ethnic and folk dance, of bel canto solos, and of an orchestra blending Eastern and Western traditions.
It presents a cultural heritage with thousands of years of history, brings heartwarming stories that will uplift, and wholesome, positive role models onstage with 3D digital backdrops that extend the stage and transport us to a world where heaven and earth are one, the release states.
Classical Chinese dance training includes three main components — technical skill, form, and bearing. The high-level techniques of classical Chinese dance like flips, spins, and tumbling are incredibly demanding.
In the West, people are familiar with ballet, but Chinese classical dance is another dance form with a long history that has only recently burst onto the world scene. Shen Yun dancers and musicians are trained at New York-based FeiTian College.
"Alongside ballet, it is also one of the most comprehensive dance systems known to humankind," according to the news release.
“The movements of classical Chinese dance are rich in their ability to express a variety of feelings, be it happiness, sorrow, joy, anger, grief, delight, the emotions that come with parting and reuniting, insanity, infatuation, sickness, tipsiness, solemnity, ignobility, majesty, as well as civil, military, and other personalities and stories," reads the website www.shenyun.org
Tickets for this performance range from $80 to $150 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating, and are available online at www.buddyhollyhall.com
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Shen Yun Performing Arts brings classical Chinese dance to Hub City
