“It was beyond my expectations; it was just absolutely out of this world. I cried so many times, too,” Ms. Dolynski said.
“Ballet itself is expressive, but I’ve never seen actual Chinese dancing like this. It was just wow. Just wow. My eyes are just sore from tearing up,” she said.
Watching New York-based Shen Yun, she was reminded of her late mother, who was also a dancer.
“Actually, it’s extra special for me because I just lost my mother a couple of weeks ago; she passed away. And she was a dancer as well, and we owned a dance studio together. So watching this tonight was like watching us up there dancing together. So it was just absolutely amazing,” Ms. Dolynski said.
“The one that stands out to me was the one with the baby,” she said.
Form and Technique
Training in classical Chinese dance requires the dancers to master bearing, form, and technique. Flexibility and strength are a must as well.“The female dancers were outstanding. Because I know what it’s like to dance, but the problem is that they make it look so easy,” she said.
“And I know myself what’s involved behind the scenes. They’re just flawless, and they’re just absolutely breathtaking, beautiful, absolutely beautiful,” said Ms. Dolynski.
“Being a dancer, I know what it’s like to dance with props and stuff like that, and especially the girls when they had to do the vases on the head and everything. Unbelievable,” she said.
“That’s what I felt, I felt it in my heart the whole entire performance. And I could just feel it coming out of them as they were dancing and everything. It was just phenomenal,” she said.
“You could just feel the story; you could tell the story throughout the whole entire thing from the beginning to the end. It was just amazing. So you knew exactly what was going on and what was happening. You could follow the whole storyline. It was just beyond my wildest dreams. It was absolutely beautiful,” said Ms. Dolynski.Reporting by Teng Dongyu and Maria Han.
