Shaolin Kungfu Performance

Shaolin Kung Fu Troupe for Traditional Shaolin Kungfu Performance

Founded in 1988, the Shaolin Kung Fu Troupe is a professional organization dedicated to exploring, promoting, and disseminating Shaolin Kung Fu culture.
As a window for showcasing Shaolin Kung Fu culture and conducting foreign affairs and tourism reception, the Troupe provides 5-7 martial arts performances daily for Chinese and foreign tourists in the Shaolin Scenic Area. Over the past 35 years, it has staged more than 67,230 performances, receiving over 38.6 million domestic and international tourists. It has also given special performances for numerous Party and state leaders, as well as foreign dignitaries including Lee Kuan Yew (Senior Minister of Singapore), Kim Young-sam (President of South Korea), and Choummaly Sayasone (President of Laos), along with more than 500 government delegations and diplomatic missions abroad.
Internationally, the performance team of the Shaolin Kung Fu Troupe was the first domestic performance group to bring Shaolin Kung Fu to the world. It has organized 156 performance groups with a total of 1,748 participants to conduct martial arts cultural exchange activities in over 80 countries and regions worldwide, and has traveled to more than 80 countries and regions for cultural exchanges and tourism promotion. It is the first domestic cultural group to perform in world-class performing arts venues such as the Royal Albert Hall (UK), the Golden Hall (Austria), the Kremlin (Russia), Broadway (USA), and the Teatro La Fenice (Italy). Its members have been cordially received by foreign dignitaries including Jacques Chirac (President of France), Lee Kuan Yew (Singaporean statesman), and the Prime Minister of Polynesia.
The Shaolin Kung Fu Troupe pioneered the new performance form of “Kung Fu Drama” in China, and has successively created Kung Fu dramas such as Shaolin Heroic Spirit, Thirteen Monk Warriors, Chan and Wu as One, Shaolin Soul, Rhythm of Martial Arts, and Shaolin Kids, which have shone brilliantly on the world stage.
In 2007, Shaolin Soul had a 5-and-a-half-month residency in the United States, staging over 150 performances, and was awarded the “Outstanding Export Cultural Product and Service Project Award” by the Ministry of Culture.
In 2009, the drama premiered on New York’s mainstream Broadway stage, with 24 consecutive performances. The Governor of New York State and the Mayor of New York City jointly designated January 15th, the premiere date of the drama, as “Broadway China Day”. In May of the same year, the drama was nominated for both the American “Drama Desk Award” and the Tony Award (the highest honor in the theater industry), becoming the first domestic drama to appear on Broadway and receive nominations for two major international awards.
The Shaolin Kung Fu Troupe has made brilliant appearances in various national-level exchange events, including the China-Japan, China-ROK, China-Hungary, and China-Mauritius diplomatic relations anniversary celebrations, the “China Year” in Russia, the “China-France Culture Year”, the opening ceremony of the China-Europe Tourism Year, the 2024 “Joyful New Year · Meet Henan in Africa” Spring Festival Gala, and the closing ceremony of the 2025 China-Cambodia People-to-People Exchange Year.
It tells Chinese stories to the world through the physical language of Shaolin Kung Fu!we accept invitations of overseas shaolin kung fu performance for theaters, anniversaries and other festival.