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Santiago, Dominican Republic Governor, Feels Shen Yun Convey Its Ideas and Feelings in Every Movement, Every Step

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Santiago, Dominican Republic Governor, Feels Shen Yun Convey Its Ideas and Feelings in Every Movement, Every Step
Mrs. Rosa Santos (C), Governor of the province of Santiago de los Caballeros, welcomed Shen Yun to Santiago, Dominican Republic, on the opening night of their performance on Feb. 6. NTD

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.

Mrs. Rosa Santos, Governor of the province of Santiago de los Caballeros, felt transported to another world.

“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.

Mrs. Santos was buoyed by the experience of seeing so many young professionals “who really have a high capacity and a very high discipline” in order to reach the mastery that has become a hallmark of Shen Yun.
“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.”
The feelings and culture that Shen Yun transmitted were that of humanity, said Mrs. Santos. She said there was one dance piece set in the modern day, in which you see how people have become distanced from each other in many respects.
“It is important that these types of feelings and examples are transmitted through music so that people can understand that the most important thing in life is the human aspect,“ she said, ”and that those values make us great—values like honesty make us great, the values like discipline, like love—those are things that have been lost and that must be rescued so that we understand, once again, that we are human beings, that we are not machines.”

“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.

Shen Yun left her with profound thoughts how life should be lived.

“In other words, traditions must be maintained, all those traditions that allow you to know who you are and where you are going.”

Mrs. Rosa Santos (C), Governor of the province of Santiago de los Caballeros, and Ms. Chiqui Checo, the new director of Gran Teatro del Cibao, welcomed Shen Yun Performing Arts to their city on Feb. 6. (NTD)
Mrs. Rosa Santos (C), Governor of the province of Santiago de los Caballeros, and Ms. Chiqui Checo, the new director of Gran Teatro del Cibao, welcomed Shen Yun Performing Arts to their city on Feb. 6. NTD
Reporting by NTD.
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