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Shen Yun’s Mission Is ‘Absolutely Necessary, Essential,’ Says Spanish City Councilor

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Shen Yun’s Mission Is ‘Absolutely Necessary, Essential,’ Says Spanish City Councilor
Councilman Carlos García attended Shen Yun's sold-out performance at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, in Spain, on Jan. 29, 2023. NTD
BILBAO, Spain—Carlos García is a councilman and the deputy spokesman of the Popular Party in the Bilbao City Council. Stepping out of Shen Yun’s sold-out performance at the Palacio Euskalduna on the evening of Jan. 29, Mr. García exclaimed that he is very grateful and pleased to have these artists visit his city.

“I want to welcome [Shen Yun] to my city,” Mr. García said. “I think it’s a pride for the many hundreds of thousands of Bilbao people to host such an artistically and culturally wonderful show. The whole show was magnificent.”

He added enthusiastically that other audience members in the theater have already told him that they, too, enjoyed the performance very much.

The New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts was founded by leading Chinese artists who had fled persecution in their homeland by the Chinese Communist Party. In the decades since the regime’s takeover, traditional Chinese culture faced near-complete destruction.

Now in America, Shen Yun artists have made it their goal to revive this lost culture and bring it back to the world through a series of dance pieces and solo performances, the beauty of pre-communist China.

In the years since its establishment, Shen Yun has grown to become the world’s top classical Chinese dance and music company. Currently, its eight equally-sized companies are touring simultaneously around the world.

The artists are scheduled to perform in 180 cities across five continents in 2023.
Mr. García was especially touched by Shen Yun’s “[commitment] to the freedom and democracy of a people as noble as the Chinese,” and deeply sympathized with their story.

Reflecting on the suffering of the Spanish people at the hands of the “criminal and totalitarian ideology that is communism,” Mr. García expressed that for half a century, the “murderous, terrorist organization” had also tried to curtail the freedom, culture, and cultural expressions of Spain that it did not agree with.

He felt that it’s “absolutely necessary and essential” for Shen Yun to talk about what is going on in China today because “it serves as a warning, the sword of Damocles, that no country and no culture in the world is [safe] from falling into a misfortune like [what] has befallen the Chinese people.”
“There is no better immunity from these totalitarian regimes than to rely on culture, as [exemplified by what Shen Yun] is doing today,” Mr. García said.
Reporting by NTD and Jennifer Tseng. 
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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