I want nothing more than to go to the one in Cheyenne and see who goes to an anticommunist Chinese ballet in Wyoming. I even have my “I lost my virginity at Shen Yun 2022” shirt for a thumbs up photo with the cast.
China before communism
Illiteracy!
Feudalism!
Foot binding!
Japanese invasion and occupation!
Partitioning the country to European imperial powers!
If it helps to convince you not to go, remember that the workers are super exploited.
Ethically it’s on par with a normal ballet, but it’s also charging $80 for the cheapest seat while the Colorado Symphony charges like $55. Those are the lord deterring me. I shouldn’t be charged a premium for a hogwatch when I’m already not getting a good performance.
Just watch the Spring Festival Gala from like a week ago instead, CCTV has a highlights reel with some english along the bottom explaining stuff (45m) and CGTN has a stream VOD of the whole thing (5h15)
I was watching this live and when One Republic showed up I actually soyfaced. Did not expect that one.
Edit: putting the link here
XHS said it’s cos the lead singer came out in support of Wuhan during the early days of the pandemic, he even got a tattoo of the Wuhan dish hot dry noodles
Yeah, that’s kind of a jumpscare tbh
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I genuinely can’t believe they expect you to pay money to go there. When they were here I was also, sure for free I’ll gladly take some chinese facist cult propaganda, but to have to pay 80 bucks for that experience is just ridiculous
Sneak in
I was working with someone who was wearing this shirt last year.
Shirts that go Hard have put out some quality shirts, but this is their finest.
My guy is out here triple collared up
I kinda want to see the giant Marx head red tidal wave scene, but I’d probably leave after that.
Whenever I play as communists in Hearts of Iron 4 and create custom marine divisions, I always name them Red Tide
Wait that is a thing?
giant Marx head red tidal wave scene
I felt my forehead. The dances continued, sleeves swirling, skirts rippling. A man came onstage to sing a song in Chinese, which was translated on the screen behind him. “We follow Dafa, the Great Way,” he began, singing about a Creator who saved mankind and made the world anew. “Atheism and evolution are deadly ideas. Modern trends destroy what makes us human,” he sang. At the end of the song, the row of older white people sitting behind me clapped fervently. In the final dance number, a group of Falun Dafa followers, who wore blue and yellow and clutched books of religious teachings, battled for space in a public square with corrupt youth. (Their corruption was evident because they were wearing black, looking at their cell phones, and, in the case of two men, holding hands.) Chairman Mao appeared, and the sky turned black; the city in the digital backdrop was obliterated by an earthquake, then finished off by a Communist tsunami. A red hammer and sickle glowed in the center of the wave. Dazed, I rubbed my eyes and saw a huge, bearded face disappearing in the water.
“Was that . . . ?” I said to my brother, wondering if I needed to go to the hospital.
“Karl Marx?” he said. “Yeah, I think that was a tsunami with the face of Karl Marx.”
did everyone clapped?
I honestly would if I went to go see it.
Apparently they removed it later out of fear someone would do that?
It’ll probably be boring as hell
I really like ballet and I’d like to see a Chinese ballet, but I’ve heard this is shitty.
If you’re a ballet head, I get the greater appeal. I don’t quite enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew.
Ballet is probably the most athletic form of dance, but it’s just super cool outside of the cliche ones: https://vimeo.com/455396674
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Will CEO Rachel Jake be there?
I feel like I could convince him to go a second time if I stress that it’s in Wyoming. Ever since I saw a billboard for it a few years ago I’ve wondered what kind of Guy goes to it there. It’s going to be entirely new species of goobers.
I’ve been told its not even fun to watch ironically
Presumably Cheyenne still has the same brand of upper-middle-class clueless white people that every city in the US has?
afaik the Trump cult hasn’t embraced Shen Yun/Falun Gong the way that they’ve embraced Trump
Potentially it’s just generic white people who think it’s any other ballet, but that in itself would be the baseline for fun people-watching. That’s a four page booklet where the entire last page is dedicated to anticommunism, so I’m hopeful it’s going to be motivated anticommunists of some kind even if I don’t anticipate it being a Trump rally.
it’s going to be a lot of church groups
That split the lady is doing looks unreal, very impressive.
Get on stage and shoutout our Boi
I feel like there is some link between shenanigans youn being a right wing cult and them over charging for tickets. I can’t explain it but I feel like those two facts correlate
what the hell are they doing? i thought this cult only came out of hibernation from Dec to Jan
Lost that USAID money, gotta grind out more shows?
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