SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Shen Yun Tickets Selling Fast in Europe

Dec 06, 2024

New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has taken Europe by storm in recent years, performing for full houses at top venues across the continent. Months in advance of its 2025 performances, several cities are already out of tickets.

Leipzig, Germany, which welcomed Shen Yun for the very first time last season, has already sold out all four performances, more than three months in advance.

Performance organizers in France say the first of their performances sold out at the end of November, and tickets are going fast at around 2,000 sold per day. As of Dec. 5, 115,000 seats for Shen Yun 2025 performances in France are already sold.

Shen Yun, the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, currently has performances scheduled for 13 cities in France. Some performances in Aix-En-Provence, Toulouse, Nantes, and Lyon cities are already sold out; new performances were added to the schedule in some cities, but not all.

Shen Yun has grown significantly since its inception in 2006, and today, eight Shen Yun companies tour simultaneously around the world.

Last season, Shen Yun performed more than 800 shows in more than 200 cities across five continents, with almost a third of those shows in Europe.

Seventy-two of those were in France, up from 50 the previous season.

Claude-Louis Collomb, the retired CEO of Cofitex, saw the performance last year in Lyon, France, and said it must be experienced with not just the senses, but the heart.

“This show has a lot of spirituality if you look at it with your heart and not with your eyes. As Saint-Exupéry said so well, you can’t see well with your eyes, you can only see with your heart,” said Collomb.

Marina Collomb, a retired hospital director, said the performance was absolutely magical.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen this performance, and it was a real moment of beauty, of magic. There’s something that lifts the soul in a way; something divine, pure,” she said.

She commented on Shen Yun’s mission—reviving 5,000 years of Chinese civilization—and how she was moved that artists from around the world had come together to do something that could not be done in China today.

“It’s courageous, admirable that these people are keeping ancestral traditions alive. It’s something that should be possible in every country. It’s sad when you can’t stay in your own country to express these values and have to express them outside your own borders,” said Ms. Collomb.

She also said that seeing Shen Yun brought her “joy—like an opening of the heart.”

Marie-Christine Bonnin, a lawyer, also praised the performance at the Amphitheatre 3000 in Lyon last season.

“The show is really fabulous! I feel like I’m three centimeters taller and my soul has risen. I had a wonderful time!” Bonnin said. “I think I can say that it would be great if all the laboratories would meet here to tap into the infinite beauty of Shen Yun to create a vaccine for all the ugliness in the world ... That would be great!”

In Tours, France, retired army colonel Alain Noury said the spirit of Shen Yun’s artists had inspired him to make seeing the performance a tradition.

“The dancers are working with their soul, they’re dancing with their spirit—they’re not just dancing with their bodies. There’s something in them that transcends themselves on stage. They’re there for the enjoyment, the well-being of others. On the outside they are professionals, but on the inside, there’s a simple soul made up of blissfulness and spirit,” said Noury.

“It was a beautiful, magnificent show, one where you’re transported to another place, where you let yourself be carried away. We want to get to know these people. We’ve glimpsed into something that is certainly good, so we want to get to know them better. We want to come back one more time.”