Shen Yun a ‘Mind-Expanding Cultural Experience’

Saratoga business owner Doug Jonathan: “So there’s a lot to be learned from [traditional Chinese] culture.”

The Jonathans at Shen Yun Performing Arts in San Jose, on April 8. Jan Jekielek/The Epoch Times

SAN JOSE, Calif.—A Saratoga business owner and his wife took in an uplifting, “mind-expanding cultural experience” that stressed the commonality of all humanity, when they saw Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on April 8.

Having heard about Shen Yun via the local media, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan saw the performing arts company in its first San Jose show of 2011. The show concluded with a standing ovation and curtain call, and many enthusiastic cheers.