Ms. Novak totally immersed herself in the Shen Yun Performing Arts. (The Epoch Times)
Born in Poland, Ms. Novak totally immersed herself in the Shen Yun Performing Arts presentation of China's divinely-inspired cultural heritage, held on June 29 in the elegant surrounds of Auditorio Belgrano, Buenos Aires.
“I was touched and fascinated by the spectacular,” she said. “The performance moved me completely.
"Not only did I feel the Chinese understanding of who we all are—you see, I come from Europe, but I am also Argentinian—but also, the love, peace, and strength that was emanating from everything.
"I thought it was truly precious, and aesthetically beautiful; the artists were fantastic and the dancers were transcendent, and I was wild about the erhu music.”
Solo musicians and vocalists with piano accompaniment evoke a tremendous sense of spirituality bringing to life Chinese thought and belief before communist rule. The haunting, otherworldly tones of the Chinese two-stringed instrument, erhu, are like nothing heard before.
“I thought the singers ... and, no wait, actually everything including the hosts were delectable. I thought the hostess with her Chinese accent was divine. The male host, well I don't understand Chinese, nonetheless, was a charmer.
"The whole spectacular was utterly beautiful —utterly beautiful and unforgettable.”
In one piece Heaven Awaits Us Despite Persecution oppression is a sad reality in China today leaving in its wake countless numbers of broken families.
This dance shows a father tortured to death for his belief in Falun Gong, banned by the ruling Chinese Communist Party. His wife is left in turmoil and despair, her young daughter racked in pain.
But a message of hope is presented when celestial beings appear to carry him away bespeaking of an ancient Chinese belief that good will be rewarded, even if not in this lifetime.
“I tell you, I was very moved. On several occasions I cried, not from sadness but rather from excitement and with true hopes and desires for the messages that are so new, yet so ancient. Well, for me at the very least, it's all still so new,” Ms. Novak exclaimed.
“I had an idea of what was happening in China, through a dear friend of my son's, and of course it affected me a lot, so in that sense, it seemed horrible to me, right?”
She was born at the end of World War II and then migrated to Argentine and from this Ms. Novak encourages the persecuted and their families not to lose hope.
“This will someday end and we will truly overcome things like this so that they do not happen anymore ... and I know history and it repeats, repeats, repeats itself. The persecutions, the lack of understanding, it continues to occur over and over. Not that I've lost all hope; this has given me hope. This [Shen Yun] has given me hope.
"The messages that they send, from the songs that they sing, from what was said, and from what was shown, from the descending and ascension of the Gods, and that maybe, possibly, we can do that.
"I think the show is so beautiful and gorgeous. I was very emotional and crying throughout.”
When asked about the dances, Ms. Novak replied,
"Each dance had its own style, femininity on one side. Physical force from the men that have always been in charge of defending the country at that time ... I think everything was very beautiful and very different.”
NTDTV contributed to this article.
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