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VANCOUVER, Canada—As its four-show run continues at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Shen Yun Performing Arts played to a packed house on both Saturday afternoon and evening.
The special brand of Chinese culture that has been gaining world renown at the hands of New York-based Shen Yun returned to Vancouver for the sixth straight year, playing to new and familiar faces.
Shen Yun has three dance companies that travel worldwide, comprised of internationally acclaimed dancers, musicians, and singers who have dedicated their lives and their talent to reviving China’s lost culture.
Lawyer Vena Stock described the show as “amazing and absolutely breathtaking.”
She pointed to the dance Sleeves of Silk as a standout for her.
She also found the stories from contemporary China to be particularly well done. Falun Dafa, a traditional meditation practice that has been persecuted in China for over a decade is the subject of one of the performances. In this particular performance a young man is forced to make a choice to protect a Falun Dafa practitioner from persecution when he realizes that she is a friend from his past. This theme of good and evil and making a choice to support the righteous is a core component of Chinese traditional values.
“I thought it was important to get that through to the public, so that the public knows what goes on,” Ms. Stock said.
Don Carlson and Debra Sutton enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts at Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday afternoon. (Chen Si/The Epoch Times)
Debra Sutton, Senior Vice President at a convention centre and self confessed “big dance fan” appreciated She Yun’s pure delivery of China’s traditional art forms.
“This is the culture, this is the way they dance and it’s historical, and why should they change it to appeal to modern tastes,” she said.
She attended the show with architect Don Carlson who found the show to be “totally unique,”
“It’s beautiful,” he said. “I loved the costumes and the acting.”
Another attribute of Shen Yun’s beauty is the large, digitally animated backdrops that provide imagery for each performance. Sweeping Chinese landscapes whisk the audience to distant lands throughout the Middle Kingdom.
“There is also this inventiveness with the background,” said Mr. Carlson. “I liked the way they combined the movement.”
Reporting by Chen Si and Ryan Moffatt
Shen Yun’s New York Company will perform one more show in Vancouver before leaving Canada. The production will return in April to perform in Calgary, Edmonton, and Regina.
For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts.
