VENICE, Fla.—Kathryn Dennen and her daughter attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Venice Performing Arts Center on March 12. Mrs. Dennen is a financial adviser and her daughter teaches at an elementary school.
Her daughter said: “I loved it. It was the most wonderful thing that I’ve seen,” and Mrs. Dennen agreed. “I loved the show. I thought it was an incredible use of an artistic way to tell a story, to incorporate history, tradition, education, beauty, grace, and truth.”
“The performance was exquisite, exquisite,” Stewart Williamson said.
Stewart Williamson said he was impressed with Chinese culture: “The culture, and the preservation of the culture. Without a show like this, it would disappear, and that would be a shame, to lose such history—5,000 years of history that we just witnessed. To me, that’s an amazing preservation of culture, customs, and faith. That was about a higher power, not just about us. It was faith in a higher power.”
Mrs. Dennen said: “I think it’s important to the world to understand that there is something greater than us, there is a divine being, to have that faith. When you lose that, it becomes a self-centered world where there is no answer to ‘what’s the point?’ and to understand that we have a bit of divinity in all of us. We can achieve a higher being than just this is really what drives truth and will lead us on to being better than we are as just people.”
Mrs. Dennen recalled a banner showing truth, compassion, and forbearance and said: “What’s beautiful about it is you can use beauty and dance to say what cannot be said and to paint that picture of the divine that we cannot grasp with our small minds. That’s what they did today.”
Stewart Williamson said: “It was amazing. Freedom is the key. This was a freedom of expression, and that’s what’s missing in today’s society: free speech. This was an example of free speech coming from the heart and the soul.”
Dr. Williamson said: “They strive for excellence, and they attained it, and I appreciate that. That’s the goal of every doctor, to strive for excellence. That’s a lot of what is missing today in America, the striving for excellence, and we can do it with God’s help.”
