PASADENA, Calif.—Professor Nai-Chang Yeh of the Department of Physics, Caltech, commented on Divine Performing Arts in the VIP reception after the show: “[The show] is very, very good, very beautiful ... I have seen the spiritual part of the Chinese culture ... [the show] is conveying the essence of the Chinese culture.”
Jan. 2, 2009, was the fourth day that the Divine Performing Arts International Company presented their show in Southern California.
This is the first time Dr. Yeh has seen the show, which deeply moved her. She thinks that Divine Performing Arts not only has good dances but also “many cultural and belief contents,“ the “music is also very good,” and “the overall performances are very graceful.”
Besides being a well-known physicist, Dr. Yeh is also involved in the arts and literature. She has been very active in orchestras, choirs, and even the producer of the school newspaper when she was in high school. She has also written Chinese classical poems.
“These dances ... are conveying the essence of the Chinese culture, and displaying them to people in the world, in a good way, a way accessible to common people,” Dr. Yeh said.
She said the dances depicting the persecutions of Falun Gong in China were expressed in a good way. “The important thing is [to express it] in an esthetic concept. This way, the messages passed on are positive.”
Dr. Yeh said she was touched by the efforts the DPA artists are making to revive the orthodox Chinese culture. She said it would have a very good effect on promoting the Chinese culture.
Dr. Yeh is recognized as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She graduated from the physics department of Taiwan University when she was only 21 and then earned her PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when she was 25-she was the youngest Taiwanese female to gain a PhD.
She also became the first female Asian professor with tenure in the hundred-year Caltech history.
When responding to the question of how she felt about the DPA show as a scientist, Dr. Yeh said: “I think science, music, arts, religion, etc. are pursuing the truth in different ways.”
She said she enjoys music, art and literature and that “I think ‘all roads lead to Rome’. As long as you hold onto your thought of pursuing the truth, scientists can enjoy the beautiful arts too.”
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