ADELAIDE, Australia–Having seen Shen Yun Performing Arts’ advertisements for many years, Daniel Stanning, a senior interior designer at Architectus, an architectural firm based in Australia and New Zealand, had always wanted to see the world-class performance.
As an interior designer, Mr. Stanning was impressed by the way Shen Yun used colours and costumes to tell its stories.
“The colours are beautiful. I didn’t expect them to be so vibrant and so beautiful, and I think the integration of both the video behind and all of the costumes works so beautifully together to really create an atmosphere,” he said.
“I think what I loved was how integrated it was into the performance, like how the performers would actually jump into it and jump out of it,” he said.
The animated backdrop, which is invented and patented by Shen Yun, employs state-of-the-art graphics technology to provide striking scenery and allow interaction with the dancers, providing a greater depth to the stories.
“And the timing of it was so perfect, and how they used the backdrop to write the characters [for the audience to see]. It was woven together very, very well.”
While appreciating the history-rich stories depicted by Shen Yun’s dancers, Mr. Stanning believed said he felt Shen Yun’s mission is important: to tell the stories of the past so that they did not disappear.
“A lot of the stories I saw today I haven’t heard before,“ he said. ”So I think it’s wonderful that through performances like this, all the stories can live on. And we can continue to share and learn from them.”
As a dancer who has done ballroom dancing and ballet for a long time, Mr. Stanning said he could tell that all of Shen Yun’s dancers were “dancing from the heart.”
“You could see there was a lot of passion in their storytelling and the way they move. You could see it in their bodies. So I love to see that,” he said.
“I love watching their hands, and their feet and their heads, and how they present themselves. I noticed every little bit of it, and it was beautiful,” he said.
