HOUSTON—Shawn Goheen, president and founder of Goheen Companies, which manages over $1 billion of premium finance life insurance, was in attendance opening night of Shen Yun Performing Arts at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts.
Given the opportunity to speak to the artists, Mr. Goheen said he would tell them, “Keep it up, keep doing it, keep your faith, keep spreading the word.”
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. It was founded in 2006 by artists pursuing freedom of belief, and many of them had left communist China to do so.
“I think they put a lot of thought into it,” said Mr. Goheen, who surprised his wife with tickets to the performance. “The music was great, symphony was great, I think they’ve done a really good job.”
Equally important to the high production value was the fact that Shen Yun was exposing the truth about China, according to Mr. Goheen.
“I think it’s really good that they’re able to show other people what’s going on in China,” he said.
A Shen Yun performance consists of nearly 20 vignettes, including story-based dances set throughout history, up to the present day. Mr. Goheen referenced a dance story set in modern-day China that showed that the Chinese communist regime is still repressing the Chinese people, persecuting people of faith. He enjoyed the depiction and commended the performers for bringing the topic to the stage.
“I think it just tells a story—what’s really going on in China, they’re imprisoning people for what they do ... no freedoms,” he said. “It was put together really nicely.”
Reporting by Sally Sun.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
