Truth Sets Us Free…Sydney

Welcome, this is Corinne Malaske from SOH Radio Network, with an interview from Sydney, Australia. Shen Yun has touched the hearts of many throughout their global tour.  There is a spiritual principal that runs through the performance that is felt. The theme brings a very positive message for audiences. Marie could see that the older chinese members of the audience recognized and found encouragement in each performance. They saw that these good principals from the past have not been lost.

A formidable lady with wise eyes and heart is Marie. Let see whatelse she saw in tonight’s performance. Give a Listen.

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This has been Corinne Malaske from SOH Radio Network with continuing coverage of the Shen Yun Global Tour. Information on upcoming performance locations and times are available at www.shenyunperformingarts.com and www.ticketmaster.com
Good Evening and Have Great Days!

Welcome, I’m Corinne Malaske for Soh Radio Network. Shen Yun is in Sydney, Australia. The scenery is spectacular and the cities very busy. Mayor Charles Matthews and Carole found time in their busy days to catch a performance of Shen Yun and very glad that they did.  The best of performances take us out of our lives for a short time and allow us to just enjoy what is before us.  Shen Yun has met that level of performance.

Charles and Carole shared with our reporter on the scene, how much they really liked the show. There did not seem to be a favorite. Let us listen…

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This has been Corinne Malaske for SOH Radio Network. If you are looking for listings of global locations and times, please visit http://www.shenyunperformingarts.com. As always – Have Great Days!

Welcome to the Sound Of Hope Radio network, my name is Daniel Teng and in this program we will be covering the Divine Performing Arts in Brooklyn New York at the Howard Gilman Opera House on Sunday the 4th January.

The Divine Performing Arts have, as of January 8th, completed tours in Kitchener-Waterloo and is still touring San Francisco and Toronto. Attending the afternoon performance in Brooklyn was Senator Eric Adams of New York’s 20th Senate District in Brooklyn.

Senator Adams had many good things to say about the Divine Performing Arts.

Most of the performers in the Divine Performing Arts are practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. Falun Gong abides by three tenets, Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Subsequently, many of these themes would feature prominently in the dance performances. Further, Mr Adams stated that the promotion of these themes and the re-emergence of Chinese culture walk hand in hand.

Producing the Divine Performing Arts requires meticulous effort and the dance performances much preparation. Mr Adams recognises the excellent synergy of music and dance in the show and sees the educational value of the production.

Lastly, Senator Adams had one last message for Chinese people around the world.

The three companies of the Divine Performing Arts are scheduled to tour three further locations: Toronto Canada’s John Bassett Theatre and the Toronto Convention Centre from the 8th – 14th; San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House from the 7th – 11th January; and Boston’s Boston Opera House from the 10th – 11th January.

Tickets can be purchased from www.ticketmaster.com and for more information please visit www.divineperformingarts.com

Welcome to the Sound Of Hope Radio network, This is Catherine Hennessy and in this program we will be covering the Divine Performing Arts in Chicago’s Civic Opera House on December the 27th at 7PM.

The Divine Performing Arts have, as of the 31st of December, completed tours in Florida’s Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Jacksonville, Georgia’s Atlanta, Texas’s Houston, North Carolina’s Duhram, Pansylvania’s Philadelphia, Ohio’s Cincinnati, Michigan’s Detroit, Illinois’s Chicago, and California’s San Diego.

Attending the Chicago evening performance were Katerina and Liyana. Katerina is a real estate agent, Liyana is a flower designer. Katerina is impressed by the stories in all dances. Liyana is a Russian ballet lover and thinks that Classical Chinese Dance is more than just Ballet, it also has gymnastic-like skills and extremely demanding aerial techniques.

Katerina and Liyana both were delighted to share their thoughts and experineces with SOH reporter.

We’ll now listen to their feelings and insights about the show.

Classical Chinese dance is a unique dance heritage. In its early stages it was mainly passed down among the common people, through members of the imperial court, and as part of ancient theater. Over the years, dancers refined, experimented with, and reworked it to arrive at the extraordinary system of Chinese classical dance known today. It is pat of the divinely inspired heritage that is China’s five-mellennia-old culture, and one means by which that culture lives on.

Classical Chinese dance has as its foundation China’s divinely inspired culture of five thousand years. The unique art of Chinese dance that we know today, with its impressive scale and system, is the product of generations of dancers’ many years of artistic experience combined with their refining, reorganizing and reworking of the art form.

Classical Chinese dance has its own complete set of training methods in foundational skills, strict regimen for perfecting bearing and form and means of training for skill sets such as jumps, turns, and flips, as well as extremely demanding aerial techniques, culminating in an enormous dance system. The aerial movements of classical Chinese dance contain a wealth of high-flying dives, dexterous leaps, and diverse spins.

It is the deeper resonances of traditional Chinese culture, however, that imbue a dancer’s movements with such rich expressive power. The dancer is thus capable of not only portraying a given figure’s disposition or mood, but even the vivid expressions unique to a certain age, whatever the land or time.

The Divine Performing Arts three troupe are currently scheduled to tour in Los Angeles’ Pasadena Civic Auditorium from the 1st – 8th January; San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House from the 9th – 13th January, California’s Cupertino’s Flint Center for the Performing Arts from the 14th – 15th January, Boston’s Boston Opera House from the 10th – 11th January, New Jersy’s New Brunswick’s State Theater from the 24th – 25th January, Newark’s New Jersy’s Performing Arts Center from the 26th – 27th January, New York City’s Brooklyn in the Howard Gilman Opera House from the 3rd – 4th January, New York City’s Westchester’s The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College on the 23th of January, and New York City”s Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall from the 24th – 25th January, Seattle’s The Paramount Theater on the 18th of January, and Oragon’s Portland’s Keller Auditorium on the 20th of January, Indiana’s Indianapolis’s Murat Theater on the 31st of January, and Collarado’s Denver’s Buell Theater at the Denver Performing Arts Center from the 30th – 31st of January.

Tickets can be purchased from www.ticketmaster.com and for more information please visit
www.divineperformingarts.com

Thank you for joining us for this special coverage of the Divine Performing Arts; I’m Catherine Hennessy for the Sound Of Hope Radio Network.

On behalf of the Canadian government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently sent out a greeting letter to wish the New York based company, Divine Performing Arts’ 2009 world tour success.

Mr. Harper stated: ‘I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the Divine Performing Arts 2009 world tour.’

‘Tonight’s event is a celebration of Chinese Heritage, and the rich customs and classic tales that go with it. I am certain that the intricate costumes, brilliant choreography and outstanding musical compositions that you will be treated to this evening will be a wonderful reflection of the beauty and grandeur of 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture.’

Mr. Harper went on to say, ‘On behalf of the Government of Canada, please accept my best wishes for a memorable performance.’

Since Mr. Harper have been elected as the Prime Minister in 2006, he has sent consecutive greetings to the Divine Performing Arts for five years.

On December 19, three troupes of the Divine Performing Arts, the New York Company, International Company, and Touring Company began the 2009 world tour in Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale, and Atlanta.

For more information on the Divine Performing Arts world tour please visit www.divineperformingarts.org

thanks for joining us for our special coverage of the DPA, I’m Ben Smith for the SOH radio network.