“One, of course, can see the the effort, the the years of training—has gone into it—the artwork, the sets, the music, the musicians, and so on—but the most important thing was, it touched my soul,” he said at the Eventim Apollo on April 14.
“The world population needs this real good,” Mr. Thompson said. “It makes a big—it makes a difference. The performance may not be aware of it, but it made a lot of happy people tonight. And some of those happy people start to think their own music, their own traditions.”
Shen Yun carried “a touch of the divine,” he said, and he wanted the artists to know that “you are the light. You are sure, sure of the light. You’re bringing light to a dark planet. And for me, sitting there, it really touched my soul.”Mr. Thompson only wished his family members could make it, too; several of them were familiar with the Chinese culture or language, and he wanted to recommend Shen Yun to them. He himself had missed out on it for many years, and said there was only one seat left open by the time he got his ticket this year.
“It certainly must touch the spirit of mankind, because there’s light that’s been shown in this dark world,” he said. “ Shen Yun is the light—a light springing forth.”
It was difficult to, with words, “get across of the experience to realize the beauty of it,” he said. “But the internal beauty of the divine ... comes out.”
“I’m using human words of human language to try and explain something from another universe. It’s a little difficult. But the feeling is there, the feeling is there so that’s where it’s at.”
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