TORONTO—For Janet Sherbanowski, Shen Yun Performing Arts, through its colourful and exhilarating performance, portrays China in a way that she hasn’t seen done elsewhere.
Ms. Sherbanowski, executive director of the community group Crime Prevention Association of Toronto, found the show to be unique “from the perspective of seeing parts of China that we don’t see in the media, parts that exist but are not applauded anymore.”
She watched the performance of Shen Yun at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday evening.
“China has a beautiful past culture that is based on all these different groups from the Song dynasty, the Han, all the different parts of China that come together to make an amazing people,” Ms. Sherbanowski said, referring to Shen Yun’s portrayal of dance pieces set in the past and present and from different ethnic groups in China.
“This show portrays the amazing people of China.”
Ms. Sherbanowski, who travelled to China some years ago, said she finds the country to have an “amazing culture” and “warm, beautiful, and wonderful people” who need to “rediscover the soul of their culture.”
And that’s why she appreciates Shen Yun, which she said can help Chinese people to reconnect with their past.
