Regardless of what happened, they were going to attend, she said. “It’s a once in a lifetime experience.”
Shen Yun left Haviv impressed. “It is breathtaking. The costumes. The colors are so vibrant and the choreography is so on point. Regardless of where you’re sitting, you get a great view.”
Haviv, a client services manager for a beauty company, watched the performance at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido.
Haviv felt that Shen Yun had succeeded in keeping China’s traditional culture alive.
Shen Yun Is ‘Really Authentic’
Jim Owens was also in the audience with his daughter Julia. His wife had bought tickets to Shen Yun as a Christmas present, and he decided that despite the pandemic, he was going to attend.“I love it,” said Owens, an aerospace engineer. “I actually had tears in my eyes a couple of times.”
“Just the truth of it. It’s so pure and it’s so natural. And you can tell that there’s some form of divinity coming through it, for sure—we can definitely relate. For me, it’s about the tradition. Even without words, you can see the beauty and the truth of it. It’s really authentic.”
Shen Yun ‘An Opportunity to Finally Get Out’
It was 9-year-old Alexis who had engineered a date with Shen Yun. She was interested in dance and the arts and had come with her family.“It gave us an opportunity to finally get out and enjoy some entertainment,” said Michael Danforth, a family medicine physician. They were accompanied by Sharron Hart, an OB-GYN physician.
“I think, from my perspective, because we’re a capitalist society, my biggest concern is that America is starting to lean towards more of a, like socialism, which is next to communism.
“And I don’t think people really have a good idea or understanding of what they’re getting themselves into. And they don’t understand what a great society that we have with our freedoms.
“And unfortunately, China is not that way. They have a ruling class, and it’s the Communist Party, and the rest of the people are subjugated to their tyranny,” he said.
Having been a dancer, Hart appreciated the classical dance movements.
“So, I’ve got the binoculars to look at their feet … watching their feet, their movements,” she explained. “To see the differences of how expressive they are with their feet. It’s very beautiful and wonderful.”
