“If I have the chance, I'd like to see it again,” he said. “It’s very good. The performers did an excellent job. The musicians were great—high skill, very high skill.”
He appreciated the performance for including the culture of different parts of China. “China is a vast country with lots of different ethnic backgrounds, so it was good. With my martial arts background, I could see different styles from the different regions of China,” he said.
Mrs. Yee said, “I think the choreography of showing the secular world and how it suppresses the spirituality of heavenliness in humans is a very important thread that runs throughout. … The more people watch Shen Yun, they can get more in touch with the heavenly side of their humanity.”
Shen Yun Performing Arts International Company, one of Shen Yun’s three companies that tour the world, performed at the Mahaffey. It was Shen Yun’s first performance in St. Petersburg since 2010.
Reporting by Victoria Wu and Louise Rothman.
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.
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