After watching New York-based Shen Yun at Eventim Apollo, private investment company owner Nicholas Frankopan admired the New York-based performing arts company for its reviving of China’s traditional culture.
“I think it’s absolutely superb. It’s incredibly beautiful and shows the huge tradition that exists, subsists, from Chinese culture,” said Frankopan, who enjoyed the beauty of the performance and the mirroring of nature.
Shen Yun now has seven companies touring around the globe simultaneously and is touching the hearts of many people.
Frankopan said, “Well, the tradition is what makes us what we are, and everyone should be proud of their traditions and it’s nice to see some Chinese traditions preserved for posterity.”
“Well, modern society is looking for answers that they actually already have from the past,” Frankopan added. “Not just Chinese culture, but all, Western culture needs to look within for answers that they already have to solutions for questions they’re posing today.”
Shen Yun Artists Uphold Self-Cultivation
An important aspect of Shen Yun Performing Arts is that the artists not only showcase traditional Chinese culture, but they also live by it every day, in all areas of their life.One prominent traditional Chinese principle that they observe is the principle of self-cultivation or the improvement of oneself.
Frankopan said, “I think it’s really impressive the commitment they’ve made to both their art and to their dancing, but also to the values that underpin that. That’s clearly under threat in their home country and it’s nice that they are making a stand by standing up for what’s right and clearly for freedom of expression and their traditions.”
The results of their cultivating virtue were evident on stage.
“It was amazing. It was totally fluid and calming as well as you saw, an inner grace which is unlike anything else I’ve seen,” Frankopan said.
