Category: artist profile

Shen Yun Principal Angelia Wang on the Virtues That Make a Dancer

Angelia Wang is iconic. Despite the fact that society at large has long had little working knowledge of the intricacies of classical Chinese dance, within the first decade of New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts’s creation, Shen Yun became a household name. And Wang, having been with the classical Chinese dance company since 2008, was…


Artist Profile: Beauty Through Tradition: Shen Yun

Evangeline Zhu was at Lincoln Center in New York, hours away from stepping on stage, when she got the news: The show would not go on. In the 14 years Shen Yun Performing Arts had been performing, seldom had there been a canceled show—though the Chinese Communist Party has certainly tried to have Shen Yun…