MISSISSAUGA, Canada—Grand palaces, temples, and landscapes in the sky: these are just a few of the scenes architect Patrick Saavedra was treated to during a performance by Shen Yun Performing Arts at Mississauga’s Living Arts Center on Jan. 10, 2020. Saavedra is York University’s director of planning and renovations and was thoroughly impressed with what he saw.
“I like the colors—it’s vibrant, it’s energetic,” he added, about New York-based Shen Yun’s unique combination of couture costumes, digital backdrops, and delightful additions such as the extra-long, silky “water sleeves.”
Saavedra lauded each one of Shen Yun’s dances as he tried to pick the one that stood out to him the most.
“All of them. They’re almost equally the same in terms of quality, texture, all. From that perspective, the lighting and all that are pretty much all equally good. Maybe the starting scene, where they have the Creator descending from the heavens.
“The synchronicity is like I’ve never seen before. [The dancers] are exceptionally good. Their timing is impeccable, it’s impeccable. I’ve not seen any show where the quality and timing is so precise. That I appreciate, because being an architect, I like precision. It actually—you can see it—it culminates in this wonderful kind of organized kind of energy, you might say. So, that I like very much,” Saavedra said.
“Today, it gives me some insight into what it might’ve been like for centuries,” he said.
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