EDMONTON—Sandy Helland, a truck driver who lives in Whitehorse, Yukon took a flight to Edmonton specifically to see the Chinese Spectacular on the advice of her acupuncturist.
She came to see the show on Monday night at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium and again tonight. She plans to see it one more time tomorrow night, its last night in Edmonton.
The reason? Helland feels the Spectacular has brought about a miraculous recovery from a spinal injury incurred when she was young.
"I live in Whitehorse, and I came down, I took a flight specifically for this show. I come to work late, but I had to do this show. I heard good things about it, and good things are happening to me," she said.
"When I was four years old, my father drove over me with a bulldozer and a rock pushed my spine out of alignment. I've limped all my life since. And lately, since I'm 52, I've been in more and more pain."
"I've waited all my life to have that healed, and through this show I am getting healed. I can walk and not worry about a limp now."
She went on to describe her spiritual experience during the first two shows.
"I was so excited for the unexpected. I was looking for the mystery, and I sat and I made sure that I did not cross my arms or my legs throughout the first show last night. I allowed the show to greet me and meet me, and do its magic. It started last night."
"I had a tingle in my spine that was saying something was happening back there. Tonight, it finished, it has healed."
"[It's like] a sensation of going upwards. It was building like a snowfall inside of me. This energy, it was very friendly. It was very overwhelming as well, but it got bigger and bigger and bigger, until finally at the end of the show, I thought I was going to kind of jump for joy or burst out of my bubble, it was very exhilarating," said Helland.
"I had a zest for life, and I immediately had to grab on to somebody. It was good. I woke up exhilarated today, filled with life and joy."
Helland was highly impressed by the colours and the costumes, all of which are originally designed and hand made.
"I got more involved with the colors and the flowing. I've been knocked out both evenings on the costumes, I think they are spectacular. I love the silk that it has. [It is] the finest of wardrobes on stage, for sure."
The New York-based Divine Performing Arts is winding up the Canadian leg of its international with three shows Edmonton from May 5-7.
In its 2008 tour, the Divine Performing Arts staged 220 shows in over 14 countries on four continents, reaching a total live audience of about 650,000.
For information about upcoming Divine Performing Arts shows, please visit:
www.BestChineseShows.com.
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