NEW YORK—“It touches the soul,” said Andrea, describing the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts as inspirational. Andrea saw the Jan. 15 evening performance of Shen Yun’s New York Company at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center in New York City.
Andrea, who works in the healing arts, was struck by the spirit that lay behind the music and the dances.
“It is a message, you know. We need more of that in the world to see the higher purpose of everything in the world,” she said.
She said she observed that the “spirit” that she noticed throughout the performance is one that currently suppressed in China. Under the communist regime currently ruling China, a range of forms of expression, as well as beliefs, are suppressed and even persecuted in the country.
Through bringing classical Chinese dance, folk dance, and the traditional Chinese ethos to stage, Shen Yun Performing Arts is bringing back 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture which was systematically destroyed under decades of communist rule in China.
“I think it is all connected. First it is the spirit. It goes down … the mind, the spirit and then the physical,” said Andrea.
“That is the truth—we search for the truth. Unless we hit that reality, we are lost,” she mused.
