FLORENCE, Italy—Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company has arrived in the beautiful ancient city of Florence, Italy, to continue its European 2011 World Tour at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
The New York-based company opened on Tuesday evening, March 1, with a colorful and exhilarating performance of classical Chinese dance and music to a delighted audience.
A performance by Shen Yun is a presentation of traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and the virtues distilled from the five millennia of Chinese civilization.
Two dance teachers, Romoli Marzia and Barbara Montigiani, came to see the presentation with some of their students.
Ms. Marzia, dance teacher, yoga instructor and martial Chinese arts instructor, said the performance was “super, from all points of view. Very gentle, the elegance, the energy, and especially the spiritual message coming through the arts, through the dance” held a “nice positive message of great harmony—harmony and hope,” she reiterated.
From the perspective of a professional dancer, Ms. Marzia thought the world’s premier company of classical Chinese dance was perfect.
“It is the perfection of dance, because beyond balance, lightness and great strength is a concentration of the arts. It’s real perfection.”
She said the male and female dancers were different, and both very beautiful.
“The male dance is a very manly one, powerful, and also the female dance has great characteristics in terms of quality and artistic level.”
She said she would definitely recommend the show, especially to children. “I think it has a message very close to them, to their way of thinking, and I think it is a world that is a little bit different ... the colors, the costumes, the music, the poetry pervades the entire show.
“I think it is very suitable for children, young people—I think it is very, very suited.”
Barbara Montigiani, a modern dance teacher, also enjoyed the show, above all, the elegance of the dancers.”
From the 13th to the 16th century, Florence was a seemingly endless source of creative masterpieces and Italian genius. Both Dante and Michelangelo were born there. Boccaccio wrote his ‘Decameron’ in Florence. The Italian Renaissance, Europe’s richest cultural period, began in Florence when the artist Brunelleschi finished the Duomo, with the huge dome.
Summer seems to be the season as nearly all the squares are open in the summer months providing entertainment every evening along with refreshment and spectacular views of the surrounding buildings.
Reporting by Veronica Melelli and Dana Betlevy.
Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company is one of three companies touring simultaneously in cities in Europe, USA and Australia. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts
The New York-based company opened on Tuesday evening, March 1, with a colorful and exhilarating performance of classical Chinese dance and music to a delighted audience.
A performance by Shen Yun is a presentation of traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and the virtues distilled from the five millennia of Chinese civilization.
Two dance teachers, Romoli Marzia and Barbara Montigiani, came to see the presentation with some of their students.
Ms. Marzia, dance teacher, yoga instructor and martial Chinese arts instructor, said the performance was “super, from all points of view. Very gentle, the elegance, the energy, and especially the spiritual message coming through the arts, through the dance” held a “nice positive message of great harmony—harmony and hope,” she reiterated.
From the perspective of a professional dancer, Ms. Marzia thought the world’s premier company of classical Chinese dance was perfect.
“It is the perfection of dance, because beyond balance, lightness and great strength is a concentration of the arts. It’s real perfection.”
She said the male and female dancers were different, and both very beautiful.
“The male dance is a very manly one, powerful, and also the female dance has great characteristics in terms of quality and artistic level.”
She said she would definitely recommend the show, especially to children. “I think it has a message very close to them, to their way of thinking, and I think it is a world that is a little bit different ... the colors, the costumes, the music, the poetry pervades the entire show.
“I think it is very suitable for children, young people—I think it is very, very suited.”
Barbara Montigiani, a modern dance teacher, also enjoyed the show, above all, the elegance of the dancers.”
From the 13th to the 16th century, Florence was a seemingly endless source of creative masterpieces and Italian genius. Both Dante and Michelangelo were born there. Boccaccio wrote his ‘Decameron’ in Florence. The Italian Renaissance, Europe’s richest cultural period, began in Florence when the artist Brunelleschi finished the Duomo, with the huge dome.
Summer seems to be the season as nearly all the squares are open in the summer months providing entertainment every evening along with refreshment and spectacular views of the surrounding buildings.
Reporting by Veronica Melelli and Dana Betlevy.
Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company is one of three companies touring simultaneously in cities in Europe, USA and Australia. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts
