After the opening night of Divine Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and Philadelphia, in the U.S. on Friday Dec. 19, the audience was stunned by the cultural display of the 2009 World Tour.
“I think it’s wonderful; it’s beautiful, very colorful,” said Terri Chio, a nurse who enjoyed the show in Atlanta.
She believed the show can keep the Chinese culture, spirit and old traditions alive.
“Beautiful. You don’t usually get that exposure around here,” said Christine, a college administrator who watched the show in Philadelphia. “It’s done in different formats and different cultures, and you don’t usually get to see the Chinese culture this way in this area.”
“I thought that it was very well done, reflective of the culture of China, obviously pre-Communist,” said Christine’s father.
Denise, who came back from Detroit to her hometown of Philadelphia to see the World Tour, said it was “very interesting” to see that there were so many things left out in the operas and orchestras during pre-Olympics period when she visited China with her students, whereas “here you were able to get the truth.”
“Unfortunately we can’t see this there, where it belongs,” she said.
“We learned about the balance of the dancing, the cloth going back and forth imitating flowers,” said Christine’s father. “It seems that the people are imitating nature. Everything’s a flower or a rosebud or a bird. It’s a delightful way to say that life will always go on, and I hope it will for China.”
Kim Bradley, a nurse from Philadelphia “really enjoyed” the performance of “Persecuted on a Sacred Path”, a story of contemporary persecution of conscience in China, as well as the “Dance of the Snow-Capped Mountain,” a Tibetan dance that celebrates the steppes, with long sleeves, powerful boots, and colorful prayer beads in vibrant physicality.
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