DIVINE PERFORMING ARTS
CHINESE SPECTACULAR
Presenting Divinely Inspired Culture
Improving Mind and Body Health
About the Shows
Inspired by 5,000 years of Chinese
history and traditional culture, the
productions of Divine Performing Arts
bring to life Chinese classical performing
arts in gloriously colorful and exhilarating
shows. Always presented in both English
and Chinese, these critically acclaimed
productions feature seasoned companies
of dancers, singers, musicians, and a full
orchestra. (The orchestra will not be
coming to Australia this time.)
About NTDTV
New Tang Dynasty TV is an
independent, nonprofit Chinese language
TV broadcaster established by overseas
Chinese. NTDTV began broadcasting via
satellite in North America in February
2002 and extended its 24/7 programming
to cover Asia, Europe, and Australia in
July 2003. Headquartered in New York
City, NTDTV currently has reporters and
correspondents in over sixty cities
worldwide.
Mission
Dancers
Divine Performing Arts
It is the main force behind NTDTV’s
Holiday Wonders and Chinese New Year
Spectacular shows since their inception.
It creates and performs pieces that center
primarily around classical themes and
divinely-inspired culture. It aims to present
to audiences works that express pure
goodness and beauty.
DPA's performances are reviving the
long-lost treasures of China with
unprecedented success and a phenomenal
growth with 220 shows in over 65 cities
across the globe in 2008.
The Chinese Spectacular combines
ancient technique with modern technology.
Involving dozens of talented dancers and
masterful choreography, gorgeous
costumes, and custom-designed digital
backdrops.
China was once known as "Land of the
Divine", as people once believed Chinese
culture to be a gift from the heavens. Virtue
and piety were emphasized in daily life.
Growth
Orchestra
The Language of Chinese Dance
Chinese dance is a comprehensive
system, strict in its sense of precision and
unity yet unrestricted in its visual
language and capable of depicting all
forms of beings and emotional expression
through bodily and facial movement.
Chinese dance can be generally divided
into two categories, classical dance and
folk dance. Chinese classical dance is
particularly comprehensive and abundant
in its vocabulary. Taking different forms
in each historical dynasty, Chinese
classical dance has absorbed elements
from all areas of Chinese culture including
Chinese opera, martial arts and
spirituality.
The bodily expression can be
understood by a speaker of any language,
yet its accurate interpretation and
performance is one that cannot be
separated from its cultural, ethnic or
historical roots.
 Canberra Review:
"Myths and legends –
Chinese New Year Spectacular"
Presented by New Tang Dynasty
Television. Canberra Theatre
The NTDTV Chinese New Year
Spectacular provided a fascinating
opportunity to view some relatively rare
traditional Chinese classical dance and
song. The program was presented, not as
you might expect, by a troupe from China,
but by a large company of Chinese dancers
and singers gathered from all over the
United States and Canada, and including
two who have worked with the Sydney
Dance Company in Australia, Vina Lee and
Xuejun Wang.
Sponsored by a New York based
television station, the company, which was
formed in America four years ago, travels
the world performing programs of dance
and music inspired by the traditions of
China's 5,000 year cultural history, with
the aim of reviving interest in traditional
Chinese culture. Meticulously researched,
the dances are based on ancient Chinese
religious myths and legends relating to
Taoism, Buddhism and Confucian
teachings.
It was not necessary to be familiar with
these elements, however, to enjoy the
spectacle of dozens of gorgeously
costumed dancers performing relatively
simple steps while moving around the
stage in unison. With the emphasis of the
choreography being more on the ensemble
than the lead dancers, the most striking
features of the company are the tightly
choreographed mass movement, superb
costumes and arresting backdrops, which,
although based on traditional scenes of
China, include some intriguing digitally
animated effects.
How accurately the dances reflect the
dynasties represented is of course open to
conjecture, however, at the performance I
attended, they were excellently performed
by a well-trained company of beautifully
costumed and superbly groomed dancers.
It would appear that Chinese classical
dance has much in common with Western
classical ballet, because evidence of
classical ballet training was obvious in the
supple backs and graceful arms of the
female dancers, and in the "pulled up"
bearing of the men.
Typical of the routines was a
"Mongolian Bowl Dance" which involved
rows of graceful female dancers
performing an elegant gliding dance, each
balancing three small bowls on their head.
"Ladies of the Manchu Court" had
gorgeously costumed women moving
elegantly on raised shoes, while "Herding
on the Mongolian Plains" allowed the male
dancers to display their prowess imitating
energetic horsemen galloping across the
stage.
Inserted between the dances were an
Erhu (Chinese violin) player and four
"classical" singers, who presented their
items in a curiously stilted formal manner,
the tenor wearing western "tails" and the
two sopranos in Chinese versions of
Western recital gowns. Interest was added
for the non-Chinese members of the
audience by having the lyrics of the songs
projected onto the backdrop, and by having
two pleasant American "Ken and Barbie"
comperes introduce all the items and
explain their significance in both English
and Chinese.
The heady combination of ancient dress
and landscapes, digitally mastered sets,
admirable themes extolling loyalty,
goodness, honesty, and swirling energetic
dancing provided a memorable and
satisfying evening of ancient Chinese
spectacle.
www.canberrareview.com.au/ed2096.htm;
Original article date: 4/1/2007

Miraculous Phenomena
By reporter Song Shi Yun (renminbao.com Tue 15 Jan 2008) In atrophy of his trachea and can't eat or drink normally. He coughed
the evening of 13 Jan, after the first show of the Divine every few minutes and had to use a whole box of tissue every day.
Performing Arts in the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada, Because of his liquid diet, he often had to use the restroom. Every
physiotherapist Patrician Cohen said to reporter, when soprano night, he had to go to the restroom seven or eight times. Ms. Li
Jiang Min was singing, “You can feel the divine energy coming bought him a ticket for a seat in the last row to keep from
down from above, penetrating through down from the top of your bothering others in the audience.
head, going through every part of your whole body. In the all With wonder in her voice, she said, "My father sat there and
night show, you may all the time feel that kind of righteous watched the three-hour show without coughing or using the
energy.” He said, “Actually, I felt that such energy came from the restroom even once. He watched the show quietly. It was a
divine realm in other dimension, which enriched the whole miracle! He said he felt very comfortable. After getting home, he
spectacular, very powerful and shocking, and made my total body went to the restroom once around 3 o'clock. He woke up the next
feel very comfortable.” morning saying he had a great sleep. He saw the show all night in
11 Jan was the second day of the Global Chinese New Year his dreams. It is truly miraculous!"
Spectacular performed by the DPA Touring Troupe in the Boston A Woman with a Heart Pump Sat in the Front Row
Opera House. A mechanic engineer Matthew Peace and his wife Ms. Zhen came to Ottawa from Beijing to visit her daughter.
Neiel Irsrael came together to watch the afternoon show. In the She needs a heart pump because of her heart disease. Her
interview after watching, he said: “I knew your energy circles daughter bought tickets to the show for the whole family. Ms.
were ceaselessly moving and spread growing. I could feel such Zhen's seat was moved to the first row due to some technical
strength that is kindness. Now I want to learn Falun Gong.” reason. Her daughter was worried that Ms. Zhen wouldn't be able
On 5 Jan, the DPA Touring Troupe performed the NTDTV”s to stand the loud music because her heart couldn't even stand it
GCNYS in the Marian Theatre in Philadelphia. A chiropractor when her granddaughter played the piano at home.
Peter Redmond from Philadelphia told a reporter prior to the Ms. Zhen's daughter said, "I was very worried because the
show that his arrival was to search the energy field of the DPA. drum was very loud. But Mom didn't have any discomfort. On the
He said the DPA’s promotion materials and program brochure all contrary, she got more and more absorbed and felt more and more
had unusual energy within. What exactly the energy was, he could comfortable."
not clarify. The reason he came to watch was just to further Ms. Zhen said, "Tears came to my eyes as soon as the curtain
experience and learn about this energy. After the show, Peter went up. I was so moved and was in tears throughout the show. I
particularly told the reporter that in the performance he saw the felt very good, though. It was miraculous!"
huge energy was so obvious, as if existing in the air and you "If the Show Could Go to China, How Blessed the Chinese
could touch it at any time. He described the energy he felt during Would Be!"
the performance as “the universe's life force!” Ms. Xin, who came to visit family in Canada, told a reporter
three days after attending the show, "My legs are cured!" She
Some Amazing Experiences stressed the word "cured," and her face beamed. Half of her body
By Ying Zi, Clearwisdom.net Reporter in Ottawa. During the was paralyzed after a stroke five years ago. She had to drag her
Chinese New Year Spectacular shows by the Divine Performing right leg along. After watching the show, she could lift her leg.
Arts in Ottawa on January 13 and 14, 2008, some Chinese She said, "I felt almost weightless after entering the theater. It was
Canadians in the audience experienced amazing mental and such a peaceful atmosphere. I felt relaxed from head to toe. I
physical changes. didn't feel tired until 3 a.m. that night, but I usually feel tired at
A Man in His Seventies 11. I am so lucky! If the show could go to China, how blessed the
Ms. Li is from Kanata. Her father, 78 years old, is originally Chinese would be!”
from Beijing. He has trouble swallowing because of muscular www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/1/21/
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