Perfect Blue Skies and a Warm Audience Greet Shen Yun in Belgium

Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company played to an highly appreciative audience at its first show in Bruges, Belgium.
Perfect Blue Skies and a Warm Audience Greet Shen Yun in Belgium
The Shen Yun performing Arts show, seen here closing in New York City, played to an highly appreciative audience at its first show in Bruges, Belgium. (Dai Bing/The Epoch Times)
3/8/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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The Shen Yun performing Arts show, seen here closing in New York City, played to an highly appreciative audience at its first show in Bruges, Belgium. (Dai Bing/The Epoch Times)

BRUGES Belgium—March 9 saw a warm reception of Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company in the Concertgebouw theatre in the city of Bruges, which is sometimes called the “Venice of the North”. The New York-based company brought an air of traditional Chinese culture to the city famous for its old town, which as a whole is a UNESCO-world heritage.

It was impossible to find even one cloud in the Bruges’ sky before night fell and the curtains rose on for the Shen Yun-performers. Sparkling nearly as bright as the sun over Bruges were the eyes of Antonio Cucinelli when he described his feelings about the show during the intermission.

Being a VIP-bodyguard at Cucinelli Security International and born in Italy, he described the show as “Belissimo,” which translates to “most beautiful.”

He was especially thrilled by the choreographies of the dances shown by Shen Yun. “They were very precise”, he said. “And the colours especially touched me. The backdrop was excellent.”

He was accompanied by Ms. Irina Skliar, a Ukranian diplomat working for the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union. “It is the first time I see a real Chinese show. It´s really done very well and inspiring. The combination of all the colours and the music is really impressive.”

Former conductor Michael Groos told us during the intermission that he had came especially for the Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company Orchestra. “I liked it a lot,” he told us. He found it to be “very well coordinated”.

Also among the audience members were the Customer Care Managers of the Opera in Ghent, a city less than an hour´s drive away from Bruges. Marc Hillewaere said about Shen Yun it was an “amazing show on a very high professional level. You can see it from the dances and the movements.”

His colleagues who accompanied him, Anne van Holme and Aki Bolengier, were on the same page with him about Shen Yun. “It was a very good show,” Ms. Van Holme said. Mr. Bolengier stated that he also liked it very much.

Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company will perform in 13 European countries with 34 shows from March 5 to April 28. Shen Yun opened in Amsterdam, Holland, on March 5 and will finish in Cardiff, U.K., on April 28.

  For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org

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