GEELONG, Australia—The New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts company, travelling the globe and bringing to audiences ancient Chinese folklore and modern tales of courage, performed at Costa Hall on April 3.
Ms. Meryn Lavingdale, a retired business manager, and her husband were in the audience. They hoped that what the flyers and advertisement promised would truly unfold before their eyes.
According to the couple: “The show is absolutely magnificent, it’s totally spectacular—the technical aspects and all of the scenery. The dancers were amazing, and I enjoyed learning about the culture, things I’d never thought of as being connected with China, different sorts of dancing and a lot of different aspects. It was just totally wonderful. And the music, I enjoyed the music,” Ms. Lavingdale said.
The performances The Five Millennia Begin and Knowing the True Picture Offers Ultimate Hope have become favourites for many audience members, just as they were with Ms. Lavingdale.
“It was heavenly. It was inspirational,” she said.
The performances were accompanied by orchestral music embracing Eastern and Western tradition, a genre different from anything so far heard in Geelong. The music was “Quite spiritual, quite enlightening, quite uplifting in lots of ways and very physical, very happy,” she said.
Mr. Livingston said, “I thought it [the show] was fantastic. It was completely different from what I thought. When I read about it, I thought ‘Oh, yes! I’d like to see the dancing.’ That part I was very interested in. But when I came here, it was completely different. It’s very hard to describe it to anybody.
“The opening was completely different from what I thought it would have been, that was—something you think about for a long while, something you’d think about.
“It’s a hard one to really describe. How would you describe it? My way of looking at it would be: It describes China in a much clearer way from what we read about.
“They expressed with their dancing more than I ever thought,” he said.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
