Counselor Says DPA ‘Enlightening’ and ‘Beautiful’

Ms. Rosen stands with a friend during a VIP reception following the performance. (Dai Bing/The Epoch Times)

WASHINGTON—The John F. Kennedy Center Opera House was the perfect venue for the opening show of Divine Performing Arts (DPA) on Feb. 10. The opening night production, an exclusive engagement not open to the public was welcomed in a packed theater and received standing ovations at the show’s end.

Ms. Rosen, a counselor from Pennsylvania was highly impressed with the performance.

“It was overwhelming. It was enthralling, colorful—as everybody else has said—and enjoyable,” she said.

“One thing that occurred to me is actually the sense of camaraderie and community [among the performers]. The performers showed actual joy and seemed to build energy from each other.”

DPA will be touring over 80 cities this year on their world tour. The performance of classical Chinese dance and music pulls from the wealth of China’s 5,000 years of culture. As a nonprofit organization, the award-winning dancers, musicians, singers, and choreographers from DPA have set out to restore much of the divine culture of China that has been lost over the years.

Ms. Rosen said that she enjoyed the positive message of the show. “I think that in our society people are overwhelmed by negativity and mob mentality, and negativity builds on itself, and nobody wants to be nice to each other, and road rage, and everybody’s angry today. And we come to something like this, and it’s enlightening, and it’s light, and it’s beautiful,” she said.

Ms. Rosen commented that the world can use more shows like DPA: “Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! We need things like this in our society. People don’t, you know, people sit in front of the television and they watch negativity, people being hurt, and they watch the news, and it’s just overwhelming ... If you have a light spirit and a smile in your heart, it’s contagious, and I think this does that.”

The performance weaved together a tale dating from the beginning of the Chinese civilization with the Great Yellow Emperor and leading up to China today. Two pieces told of human resilience and the hope in those who are currently suffering under the ruling communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese meditation practice.

Commenting on the elements of endurance, Ms. Rosen said, “Well, I think a lot of ethnic groups have had that though the ages, those that advanced past the people who were trying to persecute, the negativity. They are centered, and they have a belief in something more powerful than themselves. and the Chinese also, in their philosophy, it’s the same thing.”

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