Executive Loves to Understand Different Cultures

Mr. Hemmings is a director with AT&T. (Kevin Peng/The Epoch Times)

ATLANTA—Four seasons after making its 2006 debut in Atlanta, Shen Yun Performing Arts has quadrupled the number of shows it offers the southern capitol. The audience was warm and responsive on opening night. They applauded heartily, laughed and sometimes cried out in response to the beauty on stage.

The audience was diverse: children, old people, young adults, Asian, Western, black, white, trendy and classic dressers.

One executive found it refreshing. Mr. Hemmings is a director with AT&T. He said the performance "was educational, it was entertaining and it was a very refreshing entertainment."

His evaluation of the event was completely positive. "It was very, very good. It was extremely good. We need more of these things to be able to understand different cultures and different people. It would help us to have a better world. Absolutely."

It would help us to have a better world

He felt he learned something new from attending the New York-based Shen Yun. He said, "I love understanding different cultures," and he had at first thought he could go to China to see it. Because the artists were mostly ethnic Chinese people who live outside of China, "the show exposed a lot of things I didn't know."

Mr. Hemmings understood from the content of some of the dances that a show exactly like Shen Yun cannot be seen in China now. "But, it brought up that it may not be, because those cultures are being suppressed. So, it was very good."

With reporting by Kevin Peng.

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