BOURNEMOUTH, UK—“It was wonderful, very talented performers,” Georgina Pierson, a director at The Times, said after she watched Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre on Jan. 31. She was very impressed by Shen Yun’s classical Chinese dance, “[The movement] was incredible, amazing. very refined, very smooth. It’s inner tranquility and outer strength.”
Since 2006, New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has toured the world with a mission to revive China’s five millennia of traditional culture, which is being destroyed by the Chinese regime. Shen Yun’s depiction of China before communism resonates with people from around the world.
Ms. Pierson said that Shen Yun is “very creative, and you can feel the history, the authenticity.” In the meantime, knowing that Shen Yun can’t perform in mainland China, she said, “It’s a bit sad that it can’t actually be shown in China—it’s subtle, nuanced, and I think it lands a message with the audience.”
Shen Yun programs showcase China’s rich culture and diverse ethnicity. “I like the way it’s going through every ethnicity. In China, there’s different cultures, and ethnicities, and traditions that are being carried forward,” Ms. Pierson said, “they’re distinct and should be respected individually as much as a whole.”
The vocal performance also impressed Ms. Pierson. She said, “The last singer—was incredible, and also the pianist.”
As the singer sings in Chinese, the lyrics are translated and projected onto the backdrop. Ms. Pierson said the lyrics have “an important message. I think the message is that we are becoming further and further away from what we truly are as humans and our soul connection and the energy field that we inhabit.”
Ms. Pierson thought that Shen Yun Orchestra was “brilliant and magical.” The music “changes with each dance, [it can be] highly energetic, or really soft, spiritual, feminine, masculine ... it covers a breadth and a depth of feeling. So, it was really good, really, really magical.”
Reporting by NTD and Sophia Fang.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
