INDIANAPOLIS—After a brilliantly beautiful sunny day, the sun set on the Murat Centre, the oldest stagehouse in downtown Indianapolis, as crowds gathered in excited anticipation to see Shen Yun Performing Arts on March 10.
A large audience watched what is touted as a triumph of collaboration of leading dancers, choreographers, and musicians from around the world. Through unique story-telling using classical Chinese dance, beautiful costumes, original music, state-of-the-art backdrops and vocalists, Shen Yun brings to life China’s five-millennium-old culture and its universal values.
Throughout the evening’s performance, the good people of Indianapolis showed their appreciation for traditional Chinese arts with warm and enthusiastic applause. Two physicians, Dave and Pinky Stuhaldrehar were among the audience. Dave is a urologist and Pinky an OB/GYN.
Dr. Stuhaldrehar described the performance as very colorful. He loved the music and story telling.
“I could tell there is a lot of story telling behind each scene. It’s just very vivid and alive,” Dr. Stuhelreher said. “Quite an energy.”
He was touched by the dance movements and the stories they told. “I can tell there is a religious undertone to this which may not carry so well over in China as it does here. I just love the symmetry and the grace of how they move, and about the stories that they tell whether it is 3000 B.C. or contemporary.”
Shen Yun brings to life, with dance and music, favorite Chinese legends as well as contemporary stories of modern-day communist China.
“I think their dance resonates with would-be audiences all over,” Dr. Stuhaldrehar said. “It speaks to everybody, to their hearts, and just on the beautiful movements and how coordinated they are, and the grace and dignity that they bring to this [performance].”
With reporting by Valerie Avore.
For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
A large audience watched what is touted as a triumph of collaboration of leading dancers, choreographers, and musicians from around the world. Through unique story-telling using classical Chinese dance, beautiful costumes, original music, state-of-the-art backdrops and vocalists, Shen Yun brings to life China’s five-millennium-old culture and its universal values.
Throughout the evening’s performance, the good people of Indianapolis showed their appreciation for traditional Chinese arts with warm and enthusiastic applause. Two physicians, Dave and Pinky Stuhaldrehar were among the audience. Dave is a urologist and Pinky an OB/GYN.
Dr. Stuhaldrehar described the performance as very colorful. He loved the music and story telling.
“I could tell there is a lot of story telling behind each scene. It’s just very vivid and alive,” Dr. Stuhelreher said. “Quite an energy.”
He was touched by the dance movements and the stories they told. “I can tell there is a religious undertone to this which may not carry so well over in China as it does here. I just love the symmetry and the grace of how they move, and about the stories that they tell whether it is 3000 B.C. or contemporary.”
Shen Yun brings to life, with dance and music, favorite Chinese legends as well as contemporary stories of modern-day communist China.
“I think their dance resonates with would-be audiences all over,” Dr. Stuhaldrehar said. “It speaks to everybody, to their hearts, and just on the beautiful movements and how coordinated they are, and the grace and dignity that they bring to this [performance].”
With reporting by Valerie Avore.
For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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