In a news report as of December 22, 2024, the internationally acclaimed Shen Yun Performing Arts will soon embark on its world tour in 2025. The journey will kick off on December 26 in Northern California, followed by a return to Southern California in January 2025, where Shen Yun will grace the Great Los Angeles area with performances in at least 27 shows across 9 theaters. Many eager audience members have already purchased tickets, eagerly anticipating the splendor of Shen Yun.
Ticket sales representative Ms. Qu from the Greater Los Angeles area shared that last month, Shen Yun set up booths in malls, where one customer expressed excitement upon seeing their booth, exclaiming, “Wow, Shen Yun! Last year I couldn’t get tickets; when I went to buy, they were already sold out.” He promptly bought tickets for the March end performance next year.
“Many people pass by our booth and mention they have seen the show two or three times,” Ms. Qu said. Many repeat viewers even choose different theaters for subsequent viewings.
Based in New York, the mission of Shen Yun Performing Arts is to revive and promote the five thousand years of traditional Chinese divine culture, enchanting audiences worldwide with a new program each year, gaining popularity across the globe and captivating mainstream audiences from all walks of life. Prior to each year’s performances and during tours, various heads of states worldwide have issued commendations and congratulations.
Through word of mouth, the number of performances and audience attendance in the Greater Los Angeles area has been increasing yearly.
Entering the new year’s performance season, Shen Yun will perform from January to May 2025 in nine theaters in the Greater Los Angeles area: Downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, Thousand Oaks, Claremont, Northridge, Costa Mesa, Riverside, San Luis Obispo, and Hollywood.
Ms. Qu mentioned, “Shen Yun is a show that brings benefits to both adults and children in the family. Through classical Chinese dance, Shen Yun showcases the essence of traditional Chinese values of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith on stage, complemented by costumes, backdrops, and lighting. As soon as the curtain rises, we hear the audience exclaim ‘Wow,’ completely absorbed in the colors on stage and the pure goodness and beauty of the dancers.”
During ticket sales, she often encounters people lamenting, “I’ve wanted to see Shen Yun for years now,” while purchasing tickets.
“There was a family of four, with parents at one end of the booth handling business, and two teenagers watching the trailers on our TV display,” she said. “After a while, once their parents were done, they came over and said, ‘We’ve wanted to see this performance for a long time, for years.'”
From 2006 to 2024, Shen Yun expanded from a single performing arts group to eight equally sized groups, touring all five continents annually and performing in top theaters globally, bringing a unique cultural and artistic feast to millions of audiences.
However, since its inception, the Chinese Communist regime, known for its destruction of traditional culture, has never ceased its harassment of Shen Yun. More than 130 documented incidents have occurred, including attempts to pressure theaters to cancel performance contracts, harassment of Shen Yun artists’ relatives in China, creating false bomb threats, and even slashing the tires of Shen Yun tour buses, employing various means to obstruct Shen Yun’s performances.
Starting this year, the Chinese Communist Party has intensified its suppression of Shen Yun by leveraging threats and blackmail, even using infiltrated major American newspapers and influencers to tarnish Shen Yun’s reputation.
Nevertheless, in a global performing arts market downturn, Shen Yun has continued to create one box office miracle after another wherever it goes, earning recognition and love from audiences worldwide: from political and celebrity figures to prominent business tycoons, experts, scholars, cultural elites, and arts celebrities, they have been pouring in to witness Shen Yun.
They wholeheartedly praise Shen Yun as a “must-see performance of a lifetime,” a sentiment that can only be understood by experiencing it firsthand.
Actor Adam Croasdell, after attending the 2024 performance, described his experience of watching Shen Yun as “captivating, stunningly beautiful; delighted to see Shen Yun concentratedly depicting the utmost goodness and beauty of humanity.”
Jessica Marie Rogers, Chair of the Property Management Association, said, “Shen Yun conveys messages of kindness and great love, always standing firm in faith and delivering love, even amidst persecution; such a wonderful message.”
Senior Business Advisor Johnny Walker added, “Shen Yun reminds us that our secular views hinder the elevation of our spirits; we need to let go of these secular views to elevate our minds.”
With the arrival of the Christmas holiday and New Year celebrations, many audience members are gifting Shen Yun tickets as holiday presents to their loved ones. The organizers of Shen Yun Los Angeles have specifically provided an “early bird” ticket discount for the evening performance on January 17, waiving processing fees for each ticket. For more booking details, please visit the official Shen Yun website at:
https://www.shenyun.com/la