Copy pasting a fantastic comment from the reddit thread.
I tried to explain to my mom why I don't want to go to Shen Yun with her the next time I visited but she agreed with all their insane ideas about evolution being a lie and science being a communist plot. Luckily she thinks yoga is also sacrilegious so explaining Qigong finally got her to turn on it.
That's like giving the CIA free money to be bored out of your skull for two hours
if a bunch of us showed up in Maoist outfits it would be far more fun
but yeah joking aside how did they make a show with a Karl Marx Tsunami boring how is it so shit??!!
like the chapos said in the recent episode on Harlan Crow in far clearer terms than I can remember, reactionary art aspires to a flat representation of its subject that doesn't evoke more than familiar recognition. "hotel art"
From what I've seen and read online, there are like 10 minutes is weird anti-communism stuff in Shen Yun. The rest of the 2 hours is just a shitty version of Chinese song and dance.
Like Chinese song and dance shows are amazing, the numbers on the yearly new year's gala are great and basically do the same thing Shen Yun does and tell traditional stories and myths. Also there are a lot of Communist specific shows which have been produced which are insanely good.
Not only that, but the musicians on the live orchestra have it pretty bad, because of course Shen Yun would treat workers like shit. All the dancers have to be members of the Falun Gong, but the musicians don't, so they get mistreated and overworked.