Her company manufactures skincare products that are part of the beauty industry. Rogers said she could experience the inner beauty behind the dancers’ physical movements. “What you see through the performers, their energy, their spirit, you can tell they’re moving the audience with how they interact, how they dance, how they move: It’s technical beauty. It’s absolute perfection.”
Rogers loved the costumes and wanted to know more. “The colors are magical. It is like candy for your eyes. It’s absolutely beautiful. Who does the costumes? Are they professional? Costume designers?”
She noticed how the costumes help to tell the stories. “I think they’re beautiful. They’re bold. They’re exciting. They’re visually stimulating. They help tell the story, [like] the valiant soldier dressed in white and the purple is the Majesty. It’s beautiful.”
“It’s amazing. I’m a former producer, a show producer. This is a magnificent feat of bringing in the projection and telling the story of Chinese culture [that has a history of] thousands of years. It’s just magical the way the story is told through color and costume.”
“The value of the production is incredible. The ability to tell the story without using words and just using your body language and facial expression. And, like I said, the color: it’s magical. It’s a magical experience. Everybody should see the show.”With her professional experience, Rogers noticed the dancers interacted with the backdrops. “Backdrops are incredible. The little technique where they go up to the screen, and they dive down. [How] they perform and they come up on the screen is such an amazing feat. The added element of technology with the 1,000-year-old dance is a wonderful performance for this day and age. I think it keeps the audience engaged. And it’s a surprise.”
She said how impressed she was by Shen Yun’s original music composed by the Director of Shen Yun: “I’m impressed. I’m impressed.”
Rogers has been aware of Chinese culture and saw it on stage. “I saw a beautiful culture. I follow Chinese culture. I collect a lot of artifacts. I just love everything that China represents, or had represented before communism took over. It’s very spiritual and steeped in all the right things,” she said.
“I had no idea coming in what this was going to be about, and I’m so thankful I came and I will come every time you’re in town.”Rogers had positive words for Shen Yun’s director. “I would say this is a magical feast for the eyes. Thank you. Keep going. We want to see them, you know, the next generation. [This] is truly a gift.”
