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Why Would the Chinese Regime Interfere With a Dance Competition?
Miranda Zhou-Galati performs in the finals of NTDTV'S Classical Dance Competition (Bing Dai/The Epoch Times)
The Epoch Times recently reported that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued a secret order that opposes the Fifth International Classical Chinese Dance Competition hosted by New Tang Dynasty TV. In recent years, the CCP has adopted many methods to try to sabotage and interfere with NTD TV’s global competitions. They have all been done in devious ways, as the CCP would never dare to fight against the global competitions openly.
Chinese dance, in this case classical Chinese dance in particular. Audiences who have watched classical Chinese dance during the NTD TV competitions all highly praise the skill, dedication, and pure beauty presented in it.
I own the video collections of two International Classical Chinese Dance Competitions. Every time I watch them my soul is uplifted. I was thrilled by the beautiful performances and the positive message presented through the dancers’ movements. I believe that everyone who has watched classical Chinese dance may share the same feeling.
Classical Chinese dance has also been presented by Shen Yun Performing Arts over the last few years, and it is recognized as one of the top dance performances worldwide. Audience feedback from the shows has been astounding, and the performances have been critically acclaimed by people from nearly all ethnic backgrounds and social strata. The DVDs of Shen Yun shows are spreading in mainland China, and are highly esteemed by Chinese people living in the mainland.
The Chinese regime has tried to sabotage performances by Shen Yun Performing Arts, much like it tries with the NTD TV Classical Chinese Dance Competitions—attempting to convince the venue to cancel the shows, for example.
Why does the CCP put so much money and manpower to sabotage and threaten these beautiful Chinese dance performances? And why don’t they dare to do so publicly?
The answer will become clear if we make a comparison with what is presented in classical Chinese dance with what is presented in the CCP’s propaganda dance shows.
Classical Chinese dance is deeply rooted in the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization. What it represents are the essential values of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. The core value of Confucianism is forbearance. The principles of benevolence, justice, appropriateness, wisdom, and trustworthiness in that school are all derived from it. The essence of Buddha’s school is compassion, which displays the spirits of kindness and altruism to all. The core value of the Dao school is truthfulness, which presents the characters of pure serenity, non-action, honesty, and frankness.
Classical Chinese dance’s ability of powerful presentation—such as telling a story while portraying the depth of various characters in each dance—not only provides the audience with artistic enjoyment and amusement, but also purifies their souls and brings a spiritual transcendence to them. The essential values of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance presented in the dances imperceptibly rectify people’s minds and uplift their spirits.
CCP dance shows, however, blend art with the idea of using “Literature and Art to Serve Politics,” which manifests the CCP’s pernicious values of “deceit, viciousness, and violence” as its core ideology, which in turn seriously poisons people’s bodies and minds.
The CCP’s musical dance “The East Is Red” is described as a revolutionary epic. With only the single color of red seen on the stage, and with young men and women with looks of hatred twisting their bodies while waving knives and guns, it appears like a host of demons dancing. The message from the dance to the audience is violence, blood, and hatred. This kind of dance releases negativity.
Other CCP dances like “The White-Haired Girl” and “Red Detachment of Women” use the dance styles of ballet to depict the culture of CCP that is full of violence, blood, and hatred.
It is obvious that the origin, expression, and content of Chinese classical dance and the CCP dances are totally different.
It is for this reason that NTD TV’s International Classical Chinese Dance Competition, which aims to promote the core values of truthfulness, tompassion and tolerance, has been targeted by the CCP as a thorn in its side, and it will only feel content when the NTD TV Chinese Classical Dance Competition has been destroyed. But full of timidity, it has to use crafty means by issuing a secret internal order threatening Chinese dancers not to sign up for the competitions, and it also adopts gangster-like tricks to scare theaters in foreign countries to reject rental applications.
But things have gone contrary to CCP’s wishes, despite its great efforts in the past years in attempting to interfere with the NTD TV Chinese Classical Dance Competition. For the past five years, NTD TV’s Classical Chinese Dance Competition has become the most authoritative international Chinese dance competition there is. This year, Joffrey Ballet School in New York is the sponsor of the competition. As the NTD TV International Chinese Classical Dance Competition attracts talented dancers from across the world to participate in the competition, it has also become a pilgrimage for young dancers aspiring to become the best.
Read the original Chinese article.
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