MISSISSAUGA, Canada—The curtain went up to yet another full house at Shen Yun Performing Arts’ final show at the Living Arts Centre on Saturday night. All three of the popular performing arts company’s shows in Mississauga were sold out.
Angela Del Franco, a yoga and Pilates teacher with a background in dance, was highly impressed with Shen Yun’s unique show.
“It’s beautiful, very colourful, and I really love the last piece with the extended beautiful sash arms. It just brings a lot of dimension with the things that they use, the fans, and they used something else for embroidery; lots of fabric. It’s really beautiful,” Ms. Del Franco said during the intermission.
She also noted the show’s “spiritual element, with the monks and the higher power and the divine. It’s been really beautiful to witness.”
Ms. Del Franco trained as a modern dancer at the Toronto Dance Theatre and then attended the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. She ran her own dance company for a while, teaching dance and putting on creative performances.
“So costumes and theatre have always been an interest,” she said, adding that she particularly liked the classical Chinese dance performed by the Shen Yun artists.
“I thought it was beautiful,” she said. “When they announced the next piece was going to be very classical, it looked very classical, the way they moved their upper body and their legs, and also the way they were coming out with the costumes. So yeah, I thought it was beautiful. I am enjoying it.”
In its efforts to revive the spiritual essence and values of China’s traditional culture, New York-based Shen Yun takes its inspiration from the country’s 5,000-year history.
Ms. Del Franco remarked on the female conductor with the Shen Yun Orchestra.
“The music—it is a live orchestra, how can you not enjoy live music? And it is a woman conductor, and that was a beautiful thing to see.”
She said that considering the show was sold out, she was lucky that she and her mother were able to attend—even though they weren’t able to sit together.
“It’s great that there is such a wonderful turnout,” she said. “I think any kind of cultural thing on that grand scale brings a lot of awareness, not just to their own culture but to us exploring it, being able to view a little bit about the culture.”
For more information, please visit www.shenyunperformingarts.org.
Angela Del Franco, a yoga and Pilates teacher with a background in dance, was highly impressed with Shen Yun’s unique show.
“It’s beautiful, very colourful, and I really love the last piece with the extended beautiful sash arms. It just brings a lot of dimension with the things that they use, the fans, and they used something else for embroidery; lots of fabric. It’s really beautiful,” Ms. Del Franco said during the intermission.
She also noted the show’s “spiritual element, with the monks and the higher power and the divine. It’s been really beautiful to witness.”
Ms. Del Franco trained as a modern dancer at the Toronto Dance Theatre and then attended the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. She ran her own dance company for a while, teaching dance and putting on creative performances.
“So costumes and theatre have always been an interest,” she said, adding that she particularly liked the classical Chinese dance performed by the Shen Yun artists.
“I thought it was beautiful,” she said. “When they announced the next piece was going to be very classical, it looked very classical, the way they moved their upper body and their legs, and also the way they were coming out with the costumes. So yeah, I thought it was beautiful. I am enjoying it.”
In its efforts to revive the spiritual essence and values of China’s traditional culture, New York-based Shen Yun takes its inspiration from the country’s 5,000-year history.
Ms. Del Franco remarked on the female conductor with the Shen Yun Orchestra.
“The music—it is a live orchestra, how can you not enjoy live music? And it is a woman conductor, and that was a beautiful thing to see.”
She said that considering the show was sold out, she was lucky that she and her mother were able to attend—even though they weren’t able to sit together.
“It’s great that there is such a wonderful turnout,” she said. “I think any kind of cultural thing on that grand scale brings a lot of awareness, not just to their own culture but to us exploring it, being able to view a little bit about the culture.”
For more information, please visit www.shenyunperformingarts.org.
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