ADELAIDE, Australia—Many audience members expressed their appreciation of Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour presentation after it played in Adelaide Entertainment Centre on April 6.
Mr. George, CEO of a well-known insurance brokerage attended the performance.
“It was something that was quite different, I don’t know what I expected, but I have never been to a traditional Chinese show before, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. {There] is a lot of rich culture that comes out of China, and it was expressed very well tonight,” he said.
He added that the “dancing and the singing were fabulous—especially the lady, the contralto lady, she was just amazing. She was wonderful and very colorful and very expressive of the Chinese culture.”
Shen Yun features world-class vocalists that have received many accolades as they have performed on stage.
He added in the Western world these days, you hear very few contraltos. “Years ago, my father talked about contraltos, women with low voices, but they are very rare today so it was very good to hear her.”
He was very impressed with “the lead dancer—she was terrific I think maybe the fourth dance [that she was in,] I think it was just wonderful. It was just amazing”
While watching he “tended to follow [her] all the time ... [the dancing] was very beautiful”
Shen Yun ultimately offers a message of hope that all people can appreciate or understand.
Mr. George agreed the show had strong spiritual content.
“The divine message was pretty strong when they had the family and the husband was killed, and he went up to heaven. I felt that was a fairly strong message,” he said.
One of the performances, Heaven Awaits Us Despite Persecution, depicts the story of a family in modern-day China who is torn apart by police officers, because the father practices Falun Dafa, a spiritual practice that is being persecuted by the Chinese regime. At the end of the dance, there is ultimately a message of hope, drawing from the old Chinese adage that good will ultimately be rewarded with good, and evil with evil.
Mr. George added that things are happening in China today that people are not happy about. “That’s what it [the performance] said to me, and that had quite a bit of impact. ... Obviously [they are] being persecuted [for their beliefs].”
His wife, who works in real estate and is now an olive farmer, also was enthusiastic about Shen Yun.
“I loved it, I loved the color of it. I loved the feeling of the vibrant people and the way they moved. It was just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful!” Mrs. George said.
Of the dances in the performance, she was particularly fond of the Dance of the Yi, which features dancers with very colorful and rainbow-like skirts.
She found the dance “really colourful. The purples, the blues, and the yellows—the way they moved and the way they changed their skirts into ... Its just an [impressive] scene. It’s just superb—just superb.”
The spiritual content of the show touched her as well and “felt enlightened—it was good.”
She said Shen Yun contains “definitely a spiritual feeling right through the whole show, a light spiritual feeling, a feeling of goodness.”
Dance is a part of her background as she performed ballet and tap-danced for many years when she was younger. She said she particularly enjoyed the classical Chinese dancers grace and energy.
“I think you appreciate watching a performance such as this one and just understanding how agile and disciplined they are, and how many hours they have put in to do this work to get to this standard.”
She concluded, “I can guarantee if they like any form of dance and colour, they will appreciate this.”
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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