Artist Enjoys the ‘Sense of the divine visiting humanity’

Abstract painter Mrs. Mooslin, attended the performance with her husband Mr. Mooslin. (Jana Bin Li/The Epoch Times )

LOS ANGELES—Shen Yun Performing Arts began its L.A. performances Friday, Feb. 5, at the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

New York-based Shen Yun performs Chinese classical and folk dances, covering the dynasties and ethnic groups that make up the nation’s 5,000-year heritage.

Abstract painter Mrs. Mooslin, attended the performance with her husband Mr. Mooslin, who is the president of an international art franchise. She said she thought the performance was beautiful and the state-of-the-art backdrops were “gorgeous, very, very beautiful—the sets are wonderful.”

She especially liked “the way the music and the dancing worked together.” An orchestra of classical Western and traditional Chinese instruments accompanies Shen Yun’s dance performances.

“The dancers are very well trained,” she said. “And the choreography is gorgeous, really gorgeous.” Large-scale dances make up the core of Shen Yun’s dance performances. According to Shen Yun, the dancers spend “dozens and dozens of hours” working to synchronize their movements “so they appear to be moving as one entity onstage.”

Mr. Mooslin also commented on the skills displayed by the dancers. He said he appreciated the precision and the discipline. He said the dancers: “are doing very difficult things and making it look very easy. They are doing exactly the same thing at the same time, it’s absolutely perfect.

“When you see a real artist they always make it look easy and flowing, you don’t see the motions” he said.

Some of the dances make use of extra-long sleeves. He said that the sleeves “were brought up and then released, you never saw the hands move, you never saw their sleeves come up, it was effortless. And when they moved you couldn’t see their feet move, it was effortless.”

Mr. and Mrs. Mooslin appreciated more than just the aesthetic beauty of the performance. Mrs. Mooslin said she enjoyed the “sense of the divine visiting humanity, that’s very nice to see.”

“Beautiful, and very important,” Mr. Mooslin said of the work of Shen Yun is doing. “Because I think that the company is preserving something that would otherwise be lost.”

With reporting by Jana Bin Li

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