SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—Watching Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Proctors Theater, on Thursday, May 9, left a deep impression on long time actress Carole Smith.
“It’s what’s inside of them that’s coming out in their movements,” Ms. Smith said about the Shen Yun dancers.
“And they’re not just movements, they’re movements coming from something, and it has to be coming from inside, that’s the only way that I know that it works.”
Ms. Smith said that she saw “inner life” coming out through the movements, adding that it touched her to see that.
“I just love it, I just love it,” she said.
Ms. Smith, who worked with the New York State Theater Institute for 35 years, said the dancers had superb techniques, and the performance had many aspects that made it a wonderful experience for her.
“The techniques of the dancers, that unison, it’s unbelievable that people can do that; the flexibility of the people, the costuming, the music—it’s just gorgeous, it’s beautiful. It touches my soul,” she said.
The aim of the leading classical Chinese artists who established Shen Yun in New York in 2006, according to Shen Yun’s website, is to revive China’s 5,000 year old divinely inspired culture.
Through the performance, Ms. Smith said, she learned something about China but that it would be hard for her to put into words.
“I feel like … I understand something about the inner life of the people who are following their spiritual paths,” Ms. Smith said.
“The whole thing of the connection to the heavens and the moon, and actually from some of the words that were in one of the songs, that made me think like hey, [I] could start looking at the stars, not just to see the stars and see if I can find a constellation … there’s something more there.”
Reporting by Gary Du and Madalina Hubert
Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, tours the world on a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
The Epoch Times considers Shen Yun Performing Arts the significant cultural event of our time. We have proudly covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
Shen Yun Performing Arts’s last scheduled performances for this season are in Chicago on May 10-12 and Syracuse, May 12.
