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Shen Yun Makes ‘The World a Better Place Through Dancing’: Fitness Teacher

Apr 01, 2023
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Shen Yun Makes ‘The World a Better Place Through Dancing’: Fitness Teacher
Ildiko Hegyi attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, in Toronto, on April 1, 2023. (Xinxin Teng/The Epoch Times)
TORONTO, Canada—A ballet dancer and rhythmic gymnastics athlete in her youth and now a fitness teacher, Ildiko Hegyi was able to deeply appreciate Shen Yun Performing Arts, which she watched at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on April 1.

“I love that they are paying so much attention to the symmetry and to the flow of the movement, and that they are connecting it also with the spiritual [and] with making the world a better place through dancing, through love,” said Ms. Hegyi. “I was really, really impressed. I really love it.”

Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 and is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Now with eight equally-sized companies touring the world simultaneously, Shen Yun’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture and to give its audiences a glimpse of pre-communist China.

Ms. Hegyi was impressed by the female dancers’ synchronicity, and her own experience in rhythmic gymnastics teams allowed her to appreciate the effort and training it takes to achieve that unity.

“I’m very impressed of their execution, their flexibility, of course, but also the symmetry and the flow of [their] movements in unison, because being with a team, it’s always entailing so much more work together,” said Ms. Hegyi. “They did excellent.”

Ms. Hegyi also commented on the male dancers’ energy.

“I loved the rhythm of the drums when the men came,” she said. “Oh my God, [there] was such a vibration in the whole room, on the chairs. It was that young energy when the [men] came, in the music and in the movement. It was amazing.”

Ms. Hegyi said that she enjoyed the story-based dances, and was touched by the fact that Shen Yun persists in their performances despite not being able to perform in China. Born and raised in communist Romania, Ms. Hegyi said that she could “imagine the courage the artists and producer are taking by presenting it.”
“What touched me in almost each story … is that [there was] light, and light represents purity and love,” Ms. Hegyi added. She said that the performance evoked strong feelings within her.
“I really feel that I flow with the artists. I flow with them; I flow with the way they dance. I really love that extension of the arms. Those long arms, long sleeves, … it’s like they were flying. They were not even touching the earth anymore. They were flying [and] they took me with them. I really appreciated that.”
Reporting by Xinxin Teng and Wandi Zhu.

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.

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