LOGROÑO, Spain—Karmele Pascual, dance professor, came to witness classical Chinese dance in its most authentic form at the RiojaForum on March 5, catching New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts’ last performance in Logroño, Spain.
“I found it impressive,” she said. “We know that dance is very hard and that you have to work hard, but you can really see that there is a work [as a group], yes, both in choreography, as in personal work of each one, you see something tremendous. I loved it.”“You can see that it is much more complicated than classical dance ,” she explained, referring to the high-difficulty tumbling techniques that are a part of a classical Chinese dancer’s training. “All these things, the tumbling ... I found this work impressive.”
“I loved it, I really loved it,” she said. “The traditional dances, you can see it has a lot of rooting, it has a lot of rooting with the country, with what it belongs to.”
“I liked the Mongolian one very much, but all of them, the traditional dances, I liked them because you can see that they have roots, a power of the country, it is very noticeable in the movement and expression of the people, of the dancers,” she said.
“It is noticeable, because every dancer has to come from within, and here it is even more noticeable because when everyone coordinates, you can see that they live it,” she said.
“Dancing is living and expressing, so logically this is what you see here, and what you feel here.”
