SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic—Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, took to the stage in Santiago, Dominican Republic on Feb. 6.
“One really feels in a different space from what we’re used to,” said Mrs. Santos at the Gran Teatro del Cibao. “It was a fabulous show of colors, of movement, of mastery.”
“And the most important thing is the strength this show has, the feelings it conveys, and the colors that really blend with all this strength,” Mrs. Santos said.
“Music and art are important because sometimes words are not needed for you to convey feelings and ideas, and Chinese culture is a very broad culture, it is a culture that every movement, that each step, it says something and, through those movements, those expressions, you can communicate ideas that perhaps not everyone can ... but one who is part of the culture can do it,” she said.“In other words, we really recommend people who’ve not come yet to come tomorrow to see the show because it transports you,” she said. “It transports you to another dimension.”
“That’s the message the show left me tonight, te message that you have to preserve your traditions, your roots,” she said. “When you lose your essence, that really takes you out of your environment, it makes you lose the horizon. So, I understand that one must always try to maintain their roots to remain firm and to be able to really know who you are.”
What is true does not fade over time, and the values that come and go are not ours, but modern ideas that interrupt our growth, Mrs. Santos further said.
“In other words, traditions must be maintained, all those traditions that allow you to know who you are and where you are going.”
