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Good evening. I just got back from a production of Shenyun. And unfortunately, we wound up walking out about three quarters of the way through, because unbe noticed us what was been promoted as a Chinese acrobatic dance troupe and production. What we found out to our dismay was it was basically a front for Falun Dafa. Ok, as the production itself got to be quite boring, after you’ve seen the third dance, you have seen the whole production. People within the production, they were quite good, quite limber. They did great jumps, like I said they are very limber. So that wasn’t the problem. The costuming was quite fine. The songs were very cheesy. The choreography left a lot to be desired, but the absolute worst thing was basically tantamount to been stocked in a commercial propaganda for Falun Dafa for a number of hours at a high cost. The tickets were not cheap, the tickets were up to 90 or 80 dollars a piece.And when we got to the second dance, that was where Falun Dafa were holdin

Shen Yun, one of the most brazen pieces of religious propaganda currently touring North America, is back in town and stranger than ever. After yet another blitzkrieg marketing campaign complete with misleading commercials, posters in countless shop windows, print ads, billboards and door-hangers, the religious infomercial for the Chinese sect known as Falun Gong is running for two performances in Shea's Performing Arts Center. It's difficult to describe the technicolor oddities of the Shen Yun experience to someone who's never set eyes on it. Think of it as a combination of a QVC show, the Mormon pageant at Hill Cumorah, an episode of "The 700 Club," a tripped-out game of "Mario Kart" and a Scientologist reunion. Does this make any sense? Not really. Though it bills itself as a display of 5,000 years of "classical Chinese dance," the production is an awkward attempt to proselytize to unsuspecting ticket-buyers about a rogue spiritual