With the Jan. 23 start of Chinese New Year just around the corner, world-travelled Shen Yun Performing Arts returns to the Sony Centre tonight with its famously colourful and eye-catching celebration of Chinese culture; but this season it’s not the only troupe purporting to give mainstream Toronto audiences an authentic taste of 5,000 years of rich cultural heritage.

A month from now another show, Chinese New Year Carnival 2012, takes to the same Sony Centre stage with what at first glance might seem a similar mix of song, dance, martial arts and acrobatics, all lavishly produced and dressed to kill.

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