UK Media Labels Falun Gong Show "Propaganda"

"Shen Yun: Propaganda as entertainment"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/25/btshen125.xml

This show is advertised as a Chinese spectacular - a kind of Eastern version of Cirque du Soleil. It is nothing of the kind.

Acrobatics, singing and dancing skills are used in the service of a propaganda exercise on the part of Falun Gong

the teachings of a man who believes that aliens live among us and that homosexuality and mixed-raced marriages are degenerate... seems a long way from the "truthfulness, compassion and forbearance" presented

politically motivated performance is being smuggled on to stages around Europe in the name of family entertainment