TAMPERE, Finland—Minna Hyytiainen is a chemist working in the pharmaceutical industry. She attended the first performance of the Shen Yun Chinese Spectacular in Finland on March 30. Ms Hyytiainen said she's travelled to Asia, visiting an acrobatics school in Taiwan, and today she responded to the colours, the costumes, and the drums, as many audience members have. She said "I like it...[the] dance, all the dresses and the colours—it was very colourful, and the drums."
The most striking part of the performance, according to Ms. Hyytiainen was "The Waterfall Dance ['Nymphs of the Sea'], because the movements and the fabrics were so smooth and nice." She also liked the men's dance, Herding on the Mongolian Plains, because "there were a lot of quite difficult movements but they looked so easy."
The emotional or cultural expression in the dance movements interested her, "What I knew before was that the singers have very exact movements, and they are so different than in our culture that they looked amazing… and all those movements that they're doing... it looks so easy and very soft."
Ms. Hyytiainen felt the dance techniques were totally different from those in European traditions, and she was glad to have a chance to see and learn about Chinese dance. "I have been in Taiwan and I have seen these kind of cultural things so you get to know more about the different cultures."
Of all the people she might invite to see the show, she would most like to bring "My mommy! I think she would like the show. We both love dance and all those dresses that were beautiful." Her mother lives in Helsinki, a little too far to have made the performance.
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