World-famous performing-arts troupe Shen Yun summons an ancient Chinese world to vibrant life at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center via traditional music, classical dance and daring acrobatics, along with spectacular animated backdrops, historically authentic costumes and thunderous orchestral sound. Shen Yun's latest exciting stage extravaganza, all new for 2018, stars a bilingual emcee and a cast of 80 in a wildly colorful, exhilarating and heartfelt journey through 5,000 years of glorious civilization, now on the verge of disappearing completely. You'll see more than a dozen dance pieces, each with its own story and accompanied by a live orchestra, as well as several solo vocal and instrumental performances, as part of the show Broadway World calls "extravagantly beautiful."