MANHATTAN, NY—As soon as the shimmering golden curtain opened to the Divine Performing Arts' Chinese New Year Spectacular at Radio Music City Hall in New York, Ms. Voos' eyes began to well.
"I loved the opening number. As soon as I saw it, I had tears in my eyes," she said. "The costumes were beautiful, everything is so surreal."
Ms. Voos studied ballet as a child and has a daughter who is a professional dancer and ballet teacher.
"Classical ballet has been in my life, my whole life," Ms. Voos said. "But I never heard of Chinese Classical dance where you can move your core muscles, and it’s so fluid …. You have more use of your body in this type of dance than classical ballet."
Chinese classical dance boasts movements rich in bearing and form. Stunning dives, leaps, and spins with superlative body control create an extraordinarily rich vocabulary of movement which has influenced a range of performing genres, including acrobatics and gymnastics.
"It’s just so beautiful. I felt like getting up and moving a little bit. It was hard to just stay seated. It was just beautiful. Everybody moved all at once – very professional. Everybody looks so young. I don’t know how they are at this level, so young."
The guiding mission of Divine Performing Arts is to rediscover and renew humanity's true, rightful cultural heritage. Thus the New York-based company strives to perform works that center upon the true, divinely bestowed nature of mankind, seeking to provide an experience of consummate beauty and goodness.
"It came across very well, very nicely, just gorgeous," said Ms. Voos who hosts a summer ballet camp for students aged from six to 21 years.
She said she travels to elementary schools and colleges "spreading the cultural world."
Divine Performing Arts will staged its last of four performances at the historic Radio City Music Hall on Sunday. The venue is home to the world's largest stage with an immense arch of glittering elegance that evokes the majesty of the rising sun.
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