New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) is delighted to bring DIVINE PERFORMING ARTS, the world’s premier Chinese dance and music company, to New York City, on Sunday, August 24. The performance will be the last one by the company this summer. Show time is 7:30 PM, at the Hammerstein Ballroom of Manhattan Center, with tickets starting at $35.

Divine Performing Arts (DPA) brings to life classical Chinese dance and music in a gloriously colorful and exhilarating show. Its masterful choreography and graceful routines light up the stage, with gorgeously costumed dancers moving in stunning patterns. State-of-the-art backdrops conjure up heavenly landscapes, while a live orchestra combines the best of Chinese and Western music. Based on ancient heroic legends and modern courageous tales, the charm of a DPA show is not to be missed.

“We’re thrilled to be able to bring entertainment of this caliber to the community,” says NTDTV’s president Mr. Zhong
Lee. “The show promises to be as educational as entertaining, and should appeal to the whole family as well as a wide range of people. A cultural event like this only comes along once in a great while.”

An unprecedented collaboration of leading Chinese dancers, choreographers, and musicians, Divine Performing Arts seeks to breathe new life into traditional Chinese culture and provide an experience of sublime beauty. Based in New York, the
company is a nonprofit entity that is consciously independent of China’s political regime, under which the traditional arts have long suffered; included among DPA’s members are those who practice Falun Gong. The company’s rich repertory draws from the pages of history, classical themes, and today’s world.

Last year DPA performed for some 600,000 live audience members as it toured 66 cities around the world. The company has previously sold out Radio City Music Hall. Its shows have been called by critics “superb,” “resplendent,” “inspired,” and “wonderfully positive.”

The event also comes during the summer Olympics in Beijing, China. While the Olympics are seen by many as a publicity coup for China’s ruling elite, who hope to foster national unity through the Games and project a certain image, the artists of Divine Performing Arts tell a different story. The company has broken ground by giving artistic treatment in its shows to not only classical themes and tales, but also important social issues in contemporary China, many of which the communist party there suppresses.

“The performances by DPA not only tell us a great deal about the values and ideals of China’s past,” says Mr. Zhong Lee. “but also about what is happening in China today. That’s very important to our organization. Often we don’t hear about the challenges which that society is facing, or of the very real, and significant injustices there. To have a performance like this is tremendously valuable.”

For more information: http://www.DivinePerformingArts.org