REIMS, France—Princess Anne De Ligne of Luxembourg was inspired by Shen Yun Performing Arts, describing it as a performance of depth and beauty.
“I found it extraordinary,” she said. “ I think that for everyone it’s good, a lot of depth, the words they tell us are also very profound.”
“The choreography, the dancers, the colors, and then the spirituality that’s in there is what’s very important to me,” she said. Her feeling when the curtains first rose was “finally!”
Ms. De Ligne said she strongly believes “there really is something more, a much higher, spiritual dimension,” and Shen Yun brings that out.
“I felt it very strongly, and at times there was a lot of emotion too, because I think everything came together: the colors, the light, the music, the magnificent scenography, the constant link with the beyond with what comes from elsewhere for us and vice versa, I found that extraordinary.”She said her takeaway from the performance was hope.
“The hope for a better world, but a better world in each of us first of all, right? That’s a little bit of it, and then in the belief that there are other things out there,” she said. She felt this message beautifully articulated by two tenors who sang original songs in the authentic bel canto style. “It was very beautiful, the depth of it all.”
‘It’s Magic’
Mr. de Fabribeckers said there was much to admire in Shen Yun.“Magnificent. It’s superb, beautiful, poetic, magnificent, it’s magic,” he said. “We of course admire the flexibility, the ingenuity, it’s great art, it’s superb, magnificent, really.”
He said he saw in the audience an enthusiastic public, and believed Shen Yun created “feelings of interest, warmth and desire, to see the Chinese people live differently than they do today under political constraints.”
“It’s a hope that I think a lot of people are taking part in because you’re bringing them to life,” he wanted to tell the artists.
The name “Shen Yun” translates as “the beauty of divine beings dancing,” and Mr. de Fabribeckers said that was so.
“It’s so beautifully evoked that we find ourselves a little transported by what [the artists] are doing,” he said.
“I don’t think everyone has the same vision of the divine, but the one you present can be shared by everyone,” he said. “It’s delicate, it has an eternal character, a majestic character of course, and it’s fundamentally what we dream of experiencing, that’s the divine.”
