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Photos of the week: 3/14-20

Photos of the week: 3/14-20 (Preview)

This week, we take a break from Europe and take in some scenes from the U.S. Southwest, where Shen Yun International Company is touring. Principal Dancer Chelsea Cai enjoys sunshine at the Grand Canyon.

Inside the cool lobby of the Phoenix Orpheum Theatre, Liang Yu practices her pipa, or four-stringed Chinese “lute.” (Photo by projectionist Annie Li)

The pipa is a dynamic instrument that requires dexterous fingers for its plucking and strumming techniques. (Photo by Annie Li)

The Orpheum Theatre, built in the 1920s during the height of the Vaudeville circuit, is highly ornate. (Photo by Annie Li)

Violinist Karen Chen in focused preparation. Performers like Ms. Chen — even as she closes in on 100 performances this year alone and with 11 such Shen Yun seasons under her belt — are always striving to further perfect their art. (Photo by Annie Li)

Principal Dancer Chelsea Cai poses with a Shen Yun Shop scarf amidst the Spanish Baroque motifs at the Orpheum in Phoenix. (Photo by Annie Li)

Principal Dancer Elsie Shi in Phoenix. If you think this is flexible, you’re right. But also keep clicking. (Photo by Annie Li)

Outside, the Orpheum is quiet at night. That’s because everyone is indoors...

… where the weeklong run of eight sold-out performances just concluded. Thank you, Phoenix!

Not to be outdone by Elsie Shi, dancer Yuqin Xin performs a ban pangtui, or side-leg stretch. To fluidly and “effortlessly

Chinese dance movements and postures often have metaphorical meanings. This one is called the yáng zhǎng pose. The word yang also means sun, and in its honor dancers Angie Lin (left) and Kaidi Wu simulate cradling sunshine. This photo was taken at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester, MA, where Shen Yun North America Company performed.(Photo by dancer Yuqin Xin)

Back in the Wild West, Shen Yun International Company had a day off in Sedona, Arizona. (Photo by violinist Hirofumi Kobayashi)

After a long week packed with performances, dancer Edwin Fu was ready for some open spaces and fresh air. (Photo by Hirofumi Kobayashi)

Edwin Fu at Arizona’s Red Rock State Park. (Photo by Hirofumi Kobayashi)

From left to right: dancers Madeline Lobjois, sisters Huang Yuting and Huang Fenti, and Emily Cai.

Can you tell they were ready for a day off?

Principal Dancer Alvin Song, who performs the role of the young man who takes a “trip” to another world in this year’s <i>A Passage in Time</i>, replicates the hazardous move of trying to pick perilously perched flowers for his sweetheart. (Photo by Hirofumi Kobayashi)

March 24, 2017

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Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world's premier classical Chinese dance and music company, established in New York in 2006. It performs classical Chinese dance, ethnic and folk dance, and story-based dance, with orchestral accompaniment and solo performers. For 5,000 years, divine culture flourished in the land of China. Through breathtaking music and dance, Shen Yun is reviving this glorious culture. Shen Yun, or 神韻, can be translated as: “The beauty of divine beings dancing.”

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