ALBANY, N.Y.—How often do we feel that life is just passing through the motions day after day? Mike Lewis shared that he broke out of this mundane feeling after seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts.
“I think everyone should see it. Everyone should see the show. It‘ll change you,” Mr. Lewis, who has a developing company, said. “When you come out of here, not only will you feel super alive, it gives you a sense of, ’Wow, there’s more to life than just working and making money and getting ahead.' That’s life right there.”
“That is beyond what we do on a daily basis, you can’t put a price on that. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but what it does to your heart is unbelievable,” Mr. Lewis said.
“The music is powerful, your music is unbelievable,” Mr. Lewis shared with the performers. “It just grabs you, and it takes you away. It just lifts you. If you come in here sad, you’re going to go out happy. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Shen Yun’s resident composers work closely with Shen Yun’s choreographers. Each season, an entirely new production greets the audience. Mr. Lewis expressed that he was moved by the music he heard this evening.
“The music will grab you and lift you up and just take you away. It’s powerful. It can make you smile, it can make you cry, it can make you want to dance. It’s absolutely unbelievable,” he said.
“Music just gets inside of you. It gets in your body, it gets in your soul, it gets in your mind and your heart. The music here is stunning. Everything is stunning, but the music is stunning. It’s just perfect,” Mr. Lewis said.
With Mr. Lewis was C.J. Gabrielle, a dental hygienist. She was struck by the grace and athleticism of Shen Yun’s dancers.
“The way they move to the music ... Everybody’s floating. The girls, when they walk across the floor, they look like they’re just floating. It’s magical,” she said.
“It’s just alive and bright. I love how they fly into the screen. It’s like, you’re sitting there going, how do they do that? Like they come out of the screen, they go into the screen and come back out, it’s like, how do they do that?” Ms. Gabrielle remarked.
“When you come out, you feel so uplifted. Absolutely, it makes you feel good about life. It gives me a sense of hope, and it refreshes you from the inside out. It takes you and grabs you and takes you away. You’re flying through the air with it,” Mr. Lewis said.
