Boston, Massachusetts warmly welcomed Shen Yun Performing Arts on its 2011 global tour. (Courtesy New Wikimedia Commons)

Welcome to the Shen Yun Review brought to you by the SOH Network. I’m Grace Mann. Today I’m bringing you audience comments from recent Shen Yun performances around the world, as well as letting you know about upcoming dates.

In case you hadn’t heard, Shen Yun performs story-based dances including stories of bravery and courage in modern-day China; and in which people of faith are ultimately rewarded for their conviction. But what do global audiences think about Shen Yun? Let’s take a listen to audience members tell the delight and wonder of their Shen Yun experiences.

Firstly we visit the Citi Performing Arts Center, Wang Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts where, Loretta Sanford environmental safety consultant and owner of 7 Generations Inc., shares her heart-felt feelings after seeing Shen Yun for the first time (audio).

Next we visit Fort Lauderdale, Florida where we hear from Victor Mendelson and his teenage daughter Nicole. They attended one of the Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company’s three-show run at the Broward Center. Mr Mendelson wanted his daughter to learn about Chinese culture. By all accounts, they were both thrilled by the display of China’s 5,000-year-old traditional culture (audio).

Staying at the Broward Center for Performing Arts we now hear from South African attorney and company director Dr Carnie Matisonn (audio).

As with other audience members, our interviewees were deeply inspired by the rich spirit of ancient culture brought forth in the Shen Yun performances they’d attended. Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to life classical Chinese dance and music in a gloriously colourful and exhilarating show.

Upcoming Shen Yun performances will be in Philadelphia, PA,  22nd to 23rd Feb and Memphis, TN on the 26th Feb. Frankfurt, Germany will host Shen Yun shows on 26th to 27th Feb with Little Rock, Arkansas welcoming Shen Yun on 28th Feb. Sydney, Australia concludes its epic two-and-a-half week Shen Yun season with two performance on 23rd Feb, before travelling onto Australia’s Victorian capital Melbourne.

SOH Network is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. For all information and ticket enquires please visit www.shenyunperformingarts.org.

The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Orlando, Florida, where Shen Yun warmed the hearts of its capacity audience. (Image courtesy Wikipedia Commons)

Shen Yun with its live orchestra presented a one  only grand performance at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Orlando, Florida on Wednesday evening 30^th June.  Each act, from the first to the finale, was spontaneously acknowledged by its audience members with gracious applause, warm smiles, and sometimes tears.  Hello this is Grace Mann, welcome back to the SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts.

Before crossing to Orlando to speak with our inverviewees, let’s take a quick look at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre.

The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre is a major performing arts auditorium in Orlando, Florida, seating just over 2,500 people. It is part of the larger Orlando Centroplex organization which manages several facilities.

The original Orlando Municipal Auditorium has been utilised for performing arts since 1926 and was then extensively modernized and enlarged between 1975 and 1977. It was then renamed Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in honour of former Orlando Mayor Bob Carr. Further modernization was also done in 1991, though the original Municipal Auditorium frontage remains intact in the interior of the building.

It is home to the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the former Orlando Opera.  As well it is host to a variety of other shows, exhibitions, and events.

The Bob Carr Centre is said to be replaced in 2012, and it is unknown what its fate will be thereafter.

Our first interview from this evening performance comes from Artist Mariola Nowicki. Let’s now cross to hear  about Mrs Nowicki’s evening at this one and only Shen Yun performance in Orlando.     [audio]

Our SOH reporter also caught up with Former Mayor of Altamonte Springs.  Here’s what the Former Mayor felt about his Shen Yun experience. [audio]

Next ports of call in the Shen Yun 2010 Global Tour is in Houston, TXS on Friday and Saturday the 2^nd and 3^rd July.  Los Angeles. CA will be graced with Shen Yun’s presence from Thursday 8^th July – Sunday 11^th July – and – San Diego, CA, is hosting Shen Yun performances on Saturday and Sunday 17^th and 18^th July.

Experience the gift of a life-time.  Go see the show that leaves divine footprints on its every audience member’s heart.

You can find all Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries on: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org

Continue to visit our Shen Yun Blog on the SOH Radio Network, to get update reports of the 2010 Shen Yun  Global Tour.

Shen Yun bids farewell to Providence, RI, US. after two wonderful heart-warming performances . Providence skyline seen looking north over the Providence River / Flickr

Welcome back to the SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of The Shen Yun Performing Arts. Hello again this is Grace Mann.   Our report today comes from The Providence Performing Arts Center, on Sunday 27^th June, where Shen Yun with its live orchestra staged the final of its two performances in Providence, USA.

Shen Yun Performing Arts is an independent non-profit organization based in New York, reviving the true, five-millennia-old artistic tradition of China that thrived pre the Cultural Revolution. The three Shen Yun Companies, which are known as The Shen Yun International Company,  Shen Yun New York Company and The Shen Yun Touring Company, with their live orchestras seek to breathe new life into traditional Chinese culture, while providing audiences everywhere with an experience of sublime beauty.  Before concluding this their 2010 Global Tour, Shen Yun will have touched all corner of our world.

Our first interviewee in our interview mix from this Shen Yun performance is from Insurance Company Owner Mr Richard Bllaid, who thought the show was wonderful.

Mr. Matthew Corbishley, Financial Company Owner, was very much taken with the female soprano.

Writer Ms. Regina Andrews now tells us her thoughts about her evening with Shen Yun.     and

Finally, Mr. Bob Martin who works in Emergency Medicine and his wife, a Nurse felt that Shen Yun was very good and they enjoyed the performance.  [audio]

Next  Shen Yun performances will all be in the USA .  These shows will be in Orlando, Florida on Wednesday 30^th June, Houston, Texas on Friday 2^nd and Saturday 3^rd July, with Los Angles, California performances from Tuesday13th – Thursday 15^th July.

Be sure to sieze the opportunity to experience ‘the show that is leaving millions in awe,’ when it comes to a venue close to you.

For all Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries please visit: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

Thank you for visiting our Shen Yun Blog.  We here at the SOH Radio Network are privileged to keep you posted with update reports from performances from the 2010 Shen Yun Performing Arts Global Tour.

Tango dance teacher, Oliga Golobokoya enjoys her evening at Shen Yun's final performance in Athens.

Shen Yun Touring Company staged its final performance at the Badminton Theater in Athens, Greece on Friday 4^th June, where once again, with its live orchestra left Divine footprints on its every audience member’s heart.

Our SOH reporter spoke with Dance Teacher Oliga Golobokoya at this evening’s performance.  Let’s now listen to Olgia’s Shen Yun experience. [audio]

Next ports of call for the Shen Yun companies are Torino, Italy on Tuesday and Wednesday 8^th and 9^th June, Lodz, Poland, Monday June 14th  – Wednesday 16^th June  and New Brunswick, NJ, US  Sunday Jun 20^th.

For tickets enquiries and information please visit Shen Yun’s website at www.shenyunperformingarts.org

Ambassador Raul Gangotena, Canberra's Ambassador for Ecuador enjoys Shen Yun's premiere performance at the Canberra Theatre. Ambassador Gangotena expressed that Shen Yun is 'a great level of art at its best.'

Australia’s national capital, wholeheartedly greets Shen Yun New York Company on Friday evening 21^st May, for the first of its four performances at the Canberra Theatre, Canberra City.  Hi, this is Grace Mann from the SOH Radio Network bringing you the next Shen Yun update report from this performance.

Shen Yun New York Company is one of the three Shen Yun Performing Arts Companies touring the world simultaneously in their 2010 Global Tour.

Shen Yun with its live orchestra presents classical Chinese dance and music in every gloriously colourful and exhilarating performance.

State-of-the-art backdrops transports you to scenes beyond your imagination, while groundbreaking music combines the best of both Chinese and Western composition.

Each song and dance in a Shen Yun show is newly created for every year’s global tour, immersing theatregoers into a world of extraordinary beauty, spirit and majesty.

Our SOH reporter was fortunate to speak with Canberra’s Ambassador for Ecuador, Mr Raul Gangotena.  Ambassador Gangotena was very impressed with the Shen Yun performance.    [audio]

Project Manager with Canberra’s Australian Government Department of Health, Mr John Connors also enjoyed his evening at this premiere show,  was pleasantly surprised, and felt the show was very different.   [audio]

Upcoming global Shen Yun performances will be in Instanbul, Turkey on Friday and Saturday 21^st and 22^nd May, with US city Newark, NJ, welcoming Shen Yun on Saturday 22^nd and Sunday 23^rd May.  Canberra will continue to host performances until Sunday 23^rd May, and Australia’s next city to host Shen Yun shows will be the Victorian capital Melbourne, from Tuesday 25^th May – Sunday 30^th May.

For all Shen Yun information and ticketing enquires please visit: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org

We here at SOH Radio Network are truly proud to bring you these continuing update reports from the 2010 Shen Yun Global Tour.

Shen Yun bids Sydneysiders farewell after 11 outstanding performances at Sydney ‘s Big Top Theatre, Luna Park. (Courtesy The Epoch Times)

Shen Yun New York Company bids farewell to the NSW capital, Sydney. Hello, welcome back to the SOH Radio Network. This is Grace Mann bringing you today’s report from the eleventh and final Shen Yun performance staged on Wednesday evening 11^th May at Sydney’s Big Top Theatre, Luna Park.  Once again Shen Yun with its live orchestra gave rise to its every audience member’s heart and mind, and in return audience members responded with an enthusiastic standing ovation for several curtain calls.

Our first interview this evening is with Graham and Louise.  Let’s cross straight to them now to hear about their evening with Shen Yun.  [audio]

Our SOH reporter also spoke with Plant Machinery Manager, Barry Kelly and his wife Kathleen. Barry and Kathleen said  they felt the show was a nice change and very good.  [audio]

Mr Stanley Tonkins, Writer and Tafe Teacher at Sydney Institute shared a lovely evening together at this Sydney final Shen Yun performance with his daughter Laura who is a Student Nurse.  Here’s what this dad and daughter team felt about their experience of Shen Yun.  [audio]

Australia’s national capital Canberra is the next Australian city to welcome Shen Yun with its live orchestra on Friday 21^st – Sunday 23^rd May.  Instanbul, Turkey will host Shen Yun shows on Friday and Saturday 21^st and 22^nd May and Newark NJ, US, on Saturday 22^nd and Sunday 23^rdMay.

Seize the opportunity of a lifetime, take yourself, family and friends to see ‘a beautiful culture reborn.’

You can find all Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries at: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

Thank you for visiting our Shen Yun Blog.  Stay tuned to the SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts for continuing update reports from their 2010 Global Tour.

Cruising Sydney Harbour at Night (Courtesy tastybit/Flickr)

SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of The Shen Yun Performing Arts again welcomes you all to this our next update report of the Shen Yun 2010 global tour. Hi, everyone this is Grace Mann.   Our report today incorporates interviews  from  Shen Yun performances on Thursday and Friday evenings the 13th and 14th May at the Big Top Theatre at Sydney’s Luna Park.

Our first interview in this report is from Anton Chapman who is in finance.  Anton thought the show was quite magical. Let us now listen to what else he thought about the show. [audio]

Our next interviews are from Ms. Louise Gardner, Owner of a Children’s Drama Franchise and Retired Teacher Ms. Dorothy Green.  Without further ado we’ll now cross back to the show, to hear to what these two delightful ladies shared about their evening with Shen Yun.  [audio]

Shen Yun will continue to perform in Sydney until Wednesday 19^th May, with other global performances in Neuchatel, Switzerland from Thursday 13^th – Sunday 16^th May.  The national capital of Australia, Canberra welcomes Shen Yun from Friday 21^st – Sunday 23^rd May.

Be sure to act quickly and confirm your seats. Experience the show that touches the heart and mind of its every audience member, in untold ways.

Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries can be viewed at: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

Thank you for visiting our Shen Yun Blog.  We here at the SOH Radio Network are privileged to keep you posted with regular update reports of the 2010 Shen Yun Performing Arts Global Tour.

An across the river view of Luna Park, the home of Sydney's Big Top Theatre - where Shen Yun has again captivated the hearts and minds of this evening's theatregoers. (Courtesy ricardo pereira/Flickr)

Shen Yun presents another grand performance at Sydney’s Big Top Theatre at Luna Park.  Each act, from the first to the finale , was spontaneously acknowledged by its audience members with gracious applause, warm smiles, and sometimes tears.  Hello everyone, this is Grace Mann, welcome back to the SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts.  Today’s report is from the 3^rd performance staged on Wednesday evening 12^th May.

The three touring companies of Shen Yun are known as the Shen Yun International Company, Shen Yun New York Company and Shen Yun Touring Company, Each of these Companies tours with its own orchestra. Shen Yun is now into the twenty-second week its 2010 Global Tour, with each company performing simultaneously in different countries throughout the world.  To date, Shen Yun has performed in eighteen countries, around the world.

Our first interview from this evening performance comes from Denise who is an Education Consultant, and has also studied Performing and Visual arts. Denise felt the Shen Yun performance was very well put together. Let’s now cross to Denise’s interview.  [audio]

Our SOH reporter also caught up with Retired Architect, Mr. William Phillips, who also enjoyed his evening with Shen Yun.  Here’s what else Mr Williams felt about his Shen Yun experience.  [audio]

Shen Yun New York Company continues to perform in Sydney until Wednesday 19^th May.  Other global performances will be in Neuchatel, Switzerland from Thursday 13^th – Sunday 16^th May and Toledo, Ohio, US, will stage a Shen Yun performance on Friday 14^th May.  The next Australian city to welcome Shen Yun will be the national capital Canberra, with shows from Friday 21^st – Sunday 23^rd May.

Experience the gift of a life-time.  Go see the show that leaves divine footprints on its every audience member’s heart.

You can find all Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries on: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org

Please continue to visit our Shen Yun Blog on the SOH Radio Network, to get up to the minute reports of the 2010 Shen Yun  Global Tour.

The Big Top Theatre, Luna Park, where Sydneysiders are flocking to see “the show that’s leaving millions in awe” – Shen Yun. (Image courtesy Phillie Casablanca/Flickr)

SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of The Shen Yun Performing Arts again welcomes you all to this our next update report of the Shen Yun 2010 global tour. Hi, everyone this is Grace Mann.   Our report today comes from the 2nd Shen Yun performance at the Big Top Theatre at Sydney’s Luna Park on Tuesday 11th May.

Our SOH reporter spoke with Sir Joseph Stanisler, who was so impressed with the show that not only will he be recommending  Shen Yun to friends here in Australia, but also to highly influential acquaintances overseas. Let’s now cross to Sir Joseph telling us all of his heart felt Shen Yun experience.  [audio]

Shen Yun will continue to perform in Sydney until Wednesday 19^th May, with other global performances in Neuchatel, Switzerland from Thursday 13^th – Sunday 16^th May and Toledo, Ohio, US, on Friday 14^th May.  The national capital of Australia, Canberra welcomes Shen Yun from Friday 21^st – Sunday 23^rd May.

Be sure to act quickly and confirm your seats. Experience the show that touches the heart and mind of its every audience member, in untold ways.

Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries can be viewed at: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

Thank you for visiting our Shen Yun Blog.  We here at the SOH Radio Network are privileged to keep you posted with regular update reports of the 2010 Shen Yun Performing Arts Global Tour.

Irene and Vladimer Velgush attend the second Shen Yun performance at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

Hello everyone, this is Grace Mann back with you to share another Shen Yun report from Adelaide’s Entertainment Centre.  This report comes from the second Shen Yun performance staged on Friday afternoon the 7^th May. Audience members once again basked in the warmth and humility of Shen Yun’s rendition of ancient Chinese culture through the songs, dance, costumes and music.

Today our in-house reporter spoke with Irene a semi-retired music teacher and marketing consultant  and her business partner  husband Vladimer Velgush.  Both Mr and Mrs Velgush very much enjoyed their interlude with Shen Yun at this afternoon’s performance.  Let’s now listen to their words of praise for Shen Yun.   [audio]

Next Shen Yun’s performances will be Toronto, Canada, on Saturday 8^th May – Sunday 9^th May.  Louvain-La-Neuve continues to host shows through to Tuesday 11^th May.  With Sydney, NSW being the next Australian city to welcome Shen Yun  from Sunday 9^th – Wednesday 19^th May.

Be sure to see “the show that’s leaving millions in awe” when it comes to a venue close to you.

For all Shen Yun information and ticket enquiries please visit: http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

Thank you for visiting our Shen Yun Blog.  Stay tuned to the SOH Radio Network, a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts for continuing update reports from their 2010 Global Tour.