SAN LORENZO DE EL ESCORIAL, Spain—Shen Yun Performing Arts has eight companies touring the world simultaneously but Hermann Tertsch said he feels that eight companies are not nearly enough.
“I think it’s magnificent. I think it’s very successful. I think it’s just to be applauded, and the thing to do is to multiply it. I’m told there’s eight [groups] on stage all over the world. I wish there were eighty, and I hope soon there will be eight hundred,” he said.
Shen Yun’s artists are trained in classical Chinese dance, one of the most comprehensive dance systems in the world.
“Marvelous finesse, those dance steps, those figures, that marvelous stylization of the dance, is part of that which [the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)] wants to destroy,” Mr. Tertsch said.
For the last century, the CCP has been systematically trying to distort and destroy Chinese culture. Mr. Tertsch feels that Chinese culture “has been brutally and criminally erased by a crude China, militarized. It has brought out the worst in human beings, the greatest cruelty, and that’s the China that’s been presented to us for 70 years.”
Mr. Tertsch remarked that while the CCP is based on lies and deceit, Shen Yun is the opposite.
With Shen Yun sharing the truth of the CCP with the world, it is unable to perform in China.
“I hope that in the not-too-distant future, this will really all come back to China, and we get China back, and all the rest of the world will get it back. So that human beings can really evolve in freedom and with the desire for happiness, for personal growth, of fraternity among all, and in freedom,” Mr. Tertsch said.
“All my deepest respect to Falun Gong, for all their work, for all their heroism, for all this immense, colossal school of spirituality, that works despite all the monstrosities and difficulties,” Mr. Tertsch said.
He believes that this persecution is a lesson that every human should learn.
“My regards to all the victims of the Chinese repression, of the forced organ transplants, of that infinite cruelty displayed by Chinese communism. This is a huge lesson in sensitivity and introspection,” Mr. Tertsch said.
“Of course, [the CCP] tries here in Spain, it tries everywhere, and the Chinese Communist Party thinks it can do everything everywhere, and we have to show them that it’s not like that, and the more of us who teach them that it is not so, the better,” he said.
Mr. Tertsch said the CCP has reached too far into many foreign institutions.
“The bad thing is that [the CCP] has a lot of accomplices here because it buys the people and it buys the institutions. We have to denounce those who are bought,” he said.
