GREENSBORO, N.C.—As a visual artist and professor of art, North Carolina State Rep. Dr. Alma Adams was taken back by the level of artistry presented in the Shen Yun Performing Arts show on Friday night.
“I was just overwhelmed with the sound, with the music, the costumes, it’s just tremendous,” she said after watching the show at the War Memorial Auditorium.
“Haven’t seen anything quite like it; it was absolutely fantastic,” she said.
Dr. Adams has been teaching arts at a local university for 38 years, and continues to do so even now alongside her duties as a State representative.
Speaking at the reception after the show, Dr. Adams thanked all the performers and delivered greetings to Shen Yun on behalf of herself as well as House Speaker Joe Hackney and the Senate.
“I am a visual artist by training, so it was just wonderful for me to be in the audience and to see all of the interaction not only with the visual staging that you have with the costumes and your scenery, I was just trying to figure out how you were able to make those changes and the timing so precise, it was just extraordinary,” she said to the artists.
“It was wonderful to see you integrate the arts and the culture, it was just spectacular. You all are tremendous, you are great performers, the singing was just outstanding, everything was just wonderful.”
Dr. Adams said that she wishes her students could witness this world-class performance and said she would come back to watch the show again if it returns to Greensboro.
“It is really just tremendously rewarding to have experienced this, and I certainly look forward to your coming back. You have graced our community, and you have brought us into your culture and that’s a wonderful thing,” she said to the performers.
“To be able to look at the performance, to listen, and yet to learn from the stories that you told with your imagery and your artistry, it was just absolutely tremendous.”
Speaking with The Epoch Times, Dr. Adams noted the story lines behind the dances and praised the use of state-of-the art animated backdrops with each dance or music performance.
“Just to be able to see the way they change the backdrops so quickly and … animation … was just tremendous. It was my first time seeing this. I also hope to come back again,” she said.
“It helped me appreciate all the visual pieces of it as well as the performances and how they are interrelated. It was good—it was wonderful.”
Shen Yun Performing Arts will next perform two shows on September 19–20 in Portland, Maine.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
