WASHINGTON—After the curtain call of the sixth Divine Performing Arts (DPA) Chinese New Year Spectacular show, Washingtonians said goodbye to the performers on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 15.
Dr. Lee, a dentist, and her daughter Anena, were in the audience at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
Every single show, held over five days, was either packed or sold out, with the theater selling standing tickets to almost 100 people on Saturday night.
Dr. Lee shared her feelings: “We thought it was wonderful. Well, it’s the principles—because we live based on principles of truth, compassion, and love, and we believe that life begins in spring. So, all of the pieces were just lovely.”
The scene Welcoming Spring, a Chinese folk dance, was among the highlights Dr. Lee enjoyed most. She also liked Dignity and Compassion that was about a persecuted prisoner who finds compassion for her captors.
Dr. Lee said: “It [Welcoming Spring] brings life, and everything comes alive in the spring, and we welcome that.”
Regarding Dignity and Compassion, she said, “Just because there is just so much anger and hate in the world, and no matter what the torture that she had and dealt with, she still had compassion for her captors, and that was just wonderful.”
Anena chimed in and spoke of two of her favorite scenes, The Udumbara Bloom, a flower that blooms only every three thousand years, and Welcoming Spring, “It [the show] was good. The flower one, Spring [was my favorite].”
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