“[It’s] one of the best shows I think I’ve seen,” the IT consultant said during the performance at the Palace Theatre on Jan 14, 2020.
“Really top of the game, and I think it’s taken me a little by surprise how good everyone’s been,” Babington said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AiD_say5xk
In addition to learning a combination of leaps, turns, flips, spins, as well as other aerial and tumbling techniques, classical Chinese dance has its own dancing system as well as training methods.
“The performers make it look so easy, that it’s difficult to really understand or comprehend the level of effort ... it’s really phenomenal,” Babington said.
“The discipline, and obviously the amount of effort that’s gone into the performance, being able to do what they can—it’s amazing,” he said.
Babington was most impressed with the dances performed by the men, saying, “I think that some of the performances by the men, particularly in the athleticism that the men are displaying and some of the athleticism they’re showing is amazing.”
‘I never thought I would ever see anything like this.’
Another audience member at the Palace Theater who enjoyed the performance, Ann McClean, is a retired beauty therapist and hairdresser. She got tickets to see Shen Yun as a present from her son for Christmas, and for her, it had been an amazing evening so far.“The music, the costumes, the delicacy, the fun—it’s got lots of fun in it as well. Makes you want to be 5 again and start training, and to be like those stunning girls and those magnificent boys, so athletic and the hand movements and the beautiful toes, and posture,” McClean said.
She was especially taken by the way all the dancers performed together as a team, saying that there was team spirit in the performance.
“The background, it just makes you feel like you’re floating—it looks so real. You wait for the next thing to happen, it’s quite magical. So that’s beautiful,” McClean said.
“I think the color—the color does a lot for people. Color is very energizing in itself. Color makes you uplifted,” she said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjB8jYxhe6M
The retired beauty therapist had a resounding recommendation for people to step out of the box and see something different, “see something extraordinary like [Shen Yun].”
“I don’t think people understand what [Shen Yun] can do for them,” McClean said.
