Secretary of Culture: Shen Yun Serves All, Maintains Cultural Integrity

Epoch Times Staff Created: Jul 5, 2009 Last Updated: Jul 5, 2009

Mr. Korin, professor and secretary of culture at the AMIA. (The Epoch Times)

Shen Yun Performing Arts
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Mr. Korin, professor and secretary of culture at the AMIA [Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina Mutual Association], was among the audience at the Auditorio Belgrano in Buenos Aires on July 4th to watch the Shen Yun Performing Arts show.

Mr. Korin felt the show captured thoughts that had been on his mind for a long time and that he had talked about to many people.

Mr. Korin explained that what he saw onstage was a "cultural mosaic," a harmonious meeting of different cultures "in which all cultures do not meet to disintegrate, but each culture retains its identity, through their identity and knowledge of each other, creating a kaleidoscope of colors that makes it more interesting, more beautiful, and a more beautiful life."

Of this stage experience, he said, "I have been really moved."

"It is similar with the orchestra," an orchestra that embraced Chinese and Western instruments and played tunes that pleased all the ears in the audience.

Throughout the show, Mr. Korin could feel the authenticity the artists wanted to share.

"We saw it in the dances, the music, and in the songs. Each individual does his own thing: the tenor, sings tenor, the soprano sings soprano, pianist, plays the piano, the dancer dances. Fragments of the joy of spring, combined with the very sad times of persecution, in that we have much, much in common with the ancient history of the Jewish people too."

Yet, "all of it is serving all people without sacrificing our own identity. [If we accomplish this,] then we manage to assemble a more global harmony where life is more interesting, is more beautiful, more informed, and we must not lose hope that we humans can live together as harmony is achieved in music."

"Perfection, the music, the costumes, the colorful tones, the ideology behind each act, the beauty and professionalism. Also there is a very beautiful message, very interesting, sometimes painful, sometimes joyful, as in life! Life is like this: happiness and sadness. And we have to bet on life."

"Firstly, I think that this has an extraordinary perfection, and I see you have an ideological background very interesting, very interesting."

Mr. Korin said that the folk traditions were maintained and, at the same, time, "there is also a need to seek justice, to ask for human rights, of wanting to live freely in this world to make it more comfortable for everyone."

These "things that you are taking to the world and now South America is a mammoth work, to be able to bring your culture, your way of expressing the cultural wealth of 5,000 years and to be able to show it in the present with a modern beauty, that really touches the heart."

Shen Yun Performing Arts will be performing in Buenos Aires until July 5. Santiago, Chile, will host three shows from July 10 to 12. The show will then return to Argentina on July 16, this time in Cordoba, performing three shows until July 18.

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