Germany: Magnificent Performances of Oriental Art and Falun Gong Exercises

The German Gymnastic Festival activities were held from May 14th to 20th in Berlin, which attracted hundreds of thousands of athletics lovers from various countries around the world. At the invitation of the organisers, German Falun Gong practitioners offered various programmes including demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises, dance performances and a forum on May the 15th and 16th.

Among the practitioners choreographing the dance and participating in the performances were experienced professional dancing instructors, students, housewives and company managers. They practised and rehearsed the performances, aiming to show Falun Gong practitioners’ gracefulness and goodness to the public to help them understand Falun Gong.

It was a rare opportunity for many Europeans to see such a wonderful oriental artistic performance. Many people were so touched by the performance that they applauded wildly from time to time. Though the performance of the “Lotus Dance” lasted just about one minute, it attracted two rounds of tumultuous applause.

The MC was eloquent and humorous, and he always attracted the audience’s attention. He has practised Falun Gong for many years and had participated in a peaceful petition in Tiananmen Square to call on the Chinese Communist regime to stop the persecution. When he introduced Falun Gong exercises to the audience, many people could not help standing up to imitate the exercises along with the demonstration on the stage. Some even went up to the stage to learn the exercises from the practitioners directly. A six-or-seven-year-old girl in a pink dress learned the five sets of exercises very seriously. A man who acted as a bear symbolizing Berlin’s mascot even went up to the stage to imitate the practitioners practising the exercises.

In a forum, Xiong Wei, a practitioner in Germany who was imprisoned in China for two years because of practising Falun Gong, was interviewed by the host. After watching the wonderful artistic performances and the demonstration of the peaceful exercises, knowing that people who practice them in China are subjected to such a cruel persecution, the audience was shocked and sad. They took the initiative to ask for more information about the persecution one after another and exchanged their views on the situation.