“It was awesome to see the storytelling of the different cultures and dances, and definitely, beauty and love and struggle were evoked in me during the show.”
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“The dancing was beautiful and graceful and almost magical. The tenor, his voice was amazing. You could feel his emotion in his songs. … He was singing about how life is precious and any of our earthly things will not follow us into the heavens.”
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“I can see her [the erhu soloist’s] passion for the instrument, so it makes me want to engage with her music more, and I can start to feel her passion myself.”
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“[In the ‘Lotus Fairies’ dance,] when the curtain lifted and they popped out of what looked like a cloud, it really took you there, and they engaged you and really made you feel like you were a part of what they were doing.
“[I felt] just awe—complete awe that people can do that and bring you with them. Such grace and just a feeling of lightheartedness too—a feeling of happiness to … see that beauty and to feel like you were in the heavens with them. You just felt lighthearted.”
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“Reading some of the [artists’] backgrounds and how long these dancers have practised and trained for this—it really is a beautiful and divine way of giving worship to their art.
“[I feel] grateful that they choose to share this with us and to bring us beauty, and excitement that I get to see it and experience it as well.”
