American Dance Company Launches Culture Counterstrike at CCP from Lincoln Center
Shen Yun isn’t just a performing arts company—at this point, it’s an act of defiance. It’s a cultural force standing against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), an oppressive regime that has spent decades trying to erase China’s spiritual heritage. And right now, this American company, based in New York, is bringing its most powerful production yet to the Lincoln Center, just blocks away from the headquarters of The New York Times—the very outlet that has smeared and undermined it time and time again.
In fact, the Grey Lady is behaving exactly as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda arm would if it had an outpost in NYC.
Let’s be clear: Shen Yun is not backing down. The same mainstream media that claims to champion diversity and free expression has relentlessly targeted Shen Yun, publishing hit pieces that serve as nothing more than veiled propaganda. These attacks aren’t just dishonest—they’re dangerous. Just recently, Shen Yun received bomb threats, attempts to silence the very voices that refuse to bow to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) narrative. But Shen Yun refuses to be intimidated.
This is about more than dance. More than music. More than performance. This is about the soul of a civilization that the CCP has tried to destroy—one that Shen Yun is resurrecting on stage for the world to see. It is a battle of values, a clash between artistic truth and authoritarian control. While Beijing wages war on faith, Shen Yun brings faith to life—through breathtaking classical Chinese dance, live orchestration, and storytelling that revives 5,000 years of civilization before communism ravaged it.
And now, in the cultural capital of the world, Shen Yun is making its stand. Night after night at the Lincoln Center, audiences are witnessing the beauty and spiritual depth of a China the CCP wants erased. Meanwhile, the New York Times sits just blocks away, complicit in its silence on the real threat: a totalitarian regime exporting its censorship and intimidation tactics onto American soil.
Shen Yun is on offense. The CCP, its apologists, and their mouthpieces in the media cannot silence the truth. The question is—who will stand with them?
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OPTIONAL Q&A:
- Shen Yun has faced repeated hit pieces from the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets. Why do you think they are so determined to discredit an American performing arts company that celebrates Chinese culture?
- Shen Yun recently received bomb threats. Do you believe these threats are connected to the ongoing media smears and the CCP’s broader efforts to silence you?
- What do you say to critics who claim Shen Yun has a political agenda, when in reality, you are reviving classical Chinese culture that the CCP has worked so hard to erase?
- The CCP spends billions on global influence, including media infiltration and cultural suppression. How have you seen their tactics play out here in the U.S., and do you think American institutions like the New York Times are playing into their hands?
- Shen Yun is based in New York, yet many Americans still don’t realize it is an American company. Why is it important to emphasize that distinction, especially as the CCP tries to paint you as an ‘outside’ force?
- What has audience response been like in New York, especially in light of the media attacks? Have you seen growing public support for what Shen Yun is doing?
- With Shen Yun performing at the Lincoln Center, just blocks from the New York Times headquarters, do you see this as a direct cultural counterstrike against those who have tried to silence or misrepresent you?
- For those who may not be familiar with Shen Yun’s mission, why is it so crucial that audiences see this performance—especially now, when cultural and ideological battles are being fought not just in China, but right here in America?
- Where can we learn more about the beautiful art of Shen Yun, and how it motivates others?
- The official website can be found here. Tickets to shows are also available there for purchase.
ABOUT LEESHAI LEMISH…
Leeshai Lemish has been with Shen Yun for 18 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chinese history and language from Pomona College, California, and his master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics. He has spent extended periods studying, working, and conducting research throughout East Asia, and has authored articles on Chinese current affairs in both English and Chinese. He joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as an MC when the company was founded in 2006 and has since emceed close to two thousand performances with the company, taking the stage with Shen Yun at prestigious theaters such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, the London Coliseum, Tokyo Opera City, and many others worldwide. In addition to his performance role, he has tracked and documented on his website over 100 cases of the Chinese Communist Party and its agents trying to sabotage Shen Yun internationally. He has testified on transnational repression in front of Congress, has been a featured guest on television and radio shows around the world, and is the host of the podcast Shen Yun Voices.
ABOUT LEVI BROWDE…
Levi Browde serves as the Executive Director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center – an organization dedicated to ending the human rights abuses against people who practice Falun Gong in China.
A career software entrepreneur, Levi’s life changed dramatically in 1999 when his best friend came to the office one morning and announced the Chinese Communist Party had taken away his mother in Beijing to be tortured and “brainwashed.” This marked the beginning of his volunteer work to defend human rights in China. Two years later, Levi himself was detained in a Chinese jail outside Beijing for secretly meeting with Western reporters and protesting on Tiananmen Square.
Over the past 20 years, Browde has been interviewed and quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Associated Press, TIME Magazine, BBC, AFP, and other media outlets. He has spoken about Falun Gong and human rights in China at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, at the United Nations human rights sessions in Geneva, Switzerland.
Browde studied East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and is an avid supporter of traditional Chinese culture. He founded several software start-ups, and lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
Samples of Levi on camera:
https://tv.faluninfo.net/unmasking-chinas-gestapo-610-office/
https://tv.faluninfo.net/levi-browde-exposes-the-new-york-times-distorted-coverage-of-human-rights/
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