Shen Yun Performing Arts Reviews

Kellye from Little Rock, Arkansas

THIS IS A JOKE OF A PRODUCTION

Exactly where was this "amazing, life-changing, it made me cry" performance everyone raves about? I'm still in shock at what I saw. I've watched school plays that were 10 times better. Seriously. I think it's shameful a family pays that much money and then is offered this. No set, no designs, not one prop. A movie screen with the quality of an early nintendo. Horribly bland, boring and not loud enough music, cheap costumes, the same few dances over and over. Such cringeworthy narrators. Every act was exactly the same. Same sound, same dances, same music. Only the costumes were different. Left at intermission. As did many, many others. What a bait and switch. You pay for the experience you see in the ads and the performance everyone raves of in the reviews. That is NOT what you will experience. You should be able to make an INFORMED decision if you purchase tickets. How are they getting away with this?! I'm not embellishing one whit. It really was shockingly awful.

By the way I a Chinese. from Los Angeles, California

ITS INTERESTING THAT ALL OF THE BAD REVIEWS ARE WAY IN THE BACK.

Click beyond 6,7,8,9 etc. Seems these are the real reviews. Buyer beware! I was planning on going myself but I don't think I will waste my money after finding out what this show is really about and the lack of creativity.

Holly from Logan from Salt Lake City, Utah

SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS

If Eccles Theater continues to offer Shen Yun to Utah audiences, the performance should be marketed for what it is--a political performance by a disenfranchised ex-pat political group.

Stephanie Schmidt from Saint Paul, Minnesota

I WOULD GIVE IT ZERO STARS IF I COULD

This is nothing more than a propaganda performance by Falun Gong. I was deeply disappointed that the Ordway allowed such false advertising. Multiple people walked out and in the end our family felt robbed of $700. Do NOT waste your time or money on this performance.

John from Bucks County, Pennsylvania

MISLEADING PROMOTION - SAVE YOUR MONEY

Like some other reviewers - I am posting because it is only fair to present the facts - then you make the decision. We did not read any reviews in advance or would not have wasted our time. Beyond the overt propaganda that is not advertised in advance - the performances were colorful, sometimes artistic, but uninspiring and boringly repetitive. The on-screen animations were primitive to say the least. After 10 minutes you have seen it all. And then there is the Falun Gong propaganda - this is a pseudo-artistic front for political fundraising

Jane from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

NOT WORTH THE MONEY

I would not recommend this show. It is way overpriced. The tickets should be around $30 or $20. The show is not historical but political. You feel like you have been ripped off after that show. Perfect example of how a good marketing can sell anything. I deeply regret getting tickets for it because they were so expensive.

Derek from Toronto, Ontario

IRONIC

First of all, the so called "traditional" dances in the performance are actually the reinvented and modernized folk dances that the Communist Part led to produce since the cultural revolution. And even the small shreds of authenticity left in these dances were lost due to the lack of production value in this particular show. And of course after a few numbers the show launches into a over-the-top vilification, even if well deserved, of the Chinese government. The eerie part is that the show resembled the kind of propaganda the aforementioned government fond of utilize, in all aspects other than, again, production values. So unfortunately, to a Chinese, watching this show is like seeing a badly made vampire film where the newly bitten tries to attack its master, with cheap blood and gore o'plenty. I would highly recommend this show if that's your thing.

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