“Oh, it was so beautiful,” she said.
Ms. Fernandez Fraser said she expected to see beauty but did not realize she would have such a profound experience. The songs—performed in Chinese, with the lyrics in Chinese and English projected on a digital backdrop—especially moved her.
“I actually wanted to look them up and find them so I can listen again because they really touch something special in my heart,” she said.
“The songs they sang were so touching because of the backdrop and how the words were so big, and the poetry was so concise and beautiful,” she said.
From the dance to the music to the art direction, Ms. Fernandez Fraser felt it all came together in a beautiful experience punctuated with moments “where it felt like heaven was bursting through and all these amazing flowing movements and costumes.”
Ms. Fernandez Fraser said the performance was “really amazing.”
“And I don’t know how these big systems of oppression change, but I hope that it can change through people’s hearts from just seeing this kind of beauty on a deeper level that they don’t always see, experiencing this poetry and this connection to tradition and to humanity and to the heavens that transcends the sort of material things that people are usually focused on.”New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, with a mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization through the arts.
“Please thank them so much,” she added. “It’s spectacular to be able to turn themselves into these instruments that produce, that communicate this divine beauty that we’re talking about. It’s so, so lovely to watch. Inspiring.”
