Program Director Appreciates Shen Yun’s Presentation of China’s Different Ethnicities

LOS ANGELES—Highly acclaimed Shen Yun Performing Arts performed once again in Los Angeles on the evening of Sunday, Feb 7. The show is being presented at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Music Center. With chandeliers and wide curving stairways, and one of the largest stages in the country, the theater offered the New York-based dance company an excellent venue to showcase a repertoire of ancient Chinese culture in classical dance and music.

Ms. Ko, Director for Asian Pacific Services at a prominent university in Los Angeles was in the audience. She liked the show a lot.

She said she spent a good part of her youth (6 to 21 years of age) actually learning and performing Chinese folk dance and also continued it through college. “So I wanted to come watch an authentic performance,” she said.

“What I liked most is the diversities of the different ethnicities in China. That they’re showing different styles of dance.”

Chinese classical dance, the centerpiece of the Shen Yun shows, is among the most comprehensive dance systems in the world, and included in the show are performances that highlight China’s diverse ethnic groups such as the Tibetans, Miao, Dai and Mongolians.

Ms. Ko said of the dancing, “It’s really beautiful. It’s nice to see … it’s very graceful.”

Ms. Ko felt that the show definitely had a social and spiritual message that was interesting for her. She said, “With a program like this, that capture people who might not think about that, it’s actually a nice platform to expose them to some of the realities going on in China.”

While Shen Yun’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture, it also gives artistic expression to happenings in modern-day China.

“I think the biggest thing is just how vastly different, the different cultures are because they’ve done everything from Mongolia to the Miao and it’s good that people are exposed to the fact, it’s not just one way,” she said.

With reporting by NTDTV.

Shen Yun will perform in Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center through Sunday, Feb. 14.

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