“The color choices for the outfits were amazing,” said Mr. Howard.
“They’re graceful, so graceful,” added Mrs. Howard. “I’ve never seen it before, and I’m absolutely blown away.”
“Everything was just phenomenal,” he said. “You could feel this sort of emotion come off just the way they dance and [the] expressions on their face. They really love what they do, and it’s just absolutely amazing.”
“I could talk to you all day about inspiration, but it’s all running through my head. Just the color theory in general that you see there, it was just on par with what they were doing … it was a perfect match, a perfect match with the colors, with the choreography. Everything was just amazing.”Shen Yun’s program also includes story-based dances, some of which are set in modern-day China and depict the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of followers of Falun Dafa, a spiritual practice that teaches the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
“They can’t even practice their own religion which is just heartbreaking,” said Mr. Howard.
“The emotion they had up there just had me in tears,” said Mrs. Howard. “It’s beautiful in a sense that it has the emotion, but it’s so sad knowing that that goes on.”
Connecting With the Audience
Mr. and Mrs. Howard both found Shen Yun’s performance powerful in its ability to connect to the audience on an emotional level without using any words.“When you can connect with the audience in such a powerful way without saying anything—it’s just motion, color, and theatrics—that’s beautiful,” said Mr. Howard.
When asked what message they got out of the performance, Mr. Howard answered, “Love each other, respect each other, be kind, be thoughtful … [and] togetherness.”
“Compassion, [and to] feel free to believe what you believe,” was Mrs. Howard’s reply. “There’s a spiritual thing there that you can just feel.”
Finally, the couple said that they would be telling their friends to see Shen Yun.
“I’m absolutely going to tell everybody. You have got to see the show,” said Mrs. Howard. “It’s worth every penny. You have got to see it.”
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
