OTTAWA, Canada—Joanne Tokessy had waited a long time to see Shen Yun Performing Arts.
“[I’ve] been waiting six years to see this show. Six years!” Ms. Tokessy said at the National Arts Centre on the afternoon of March 19. “And I actually made it! It absolutely has changed my life today.”
Ms. Tokessy, a drummer and retired professional ballet dancer, was deeply moved by the art.
After the performance, she spoke with The Epoch Times again.
“I’m forever changed,” she said through tears. “I am forever changed. This is the best show in the world that I’ve ever seen. ... This is life-changing, it really is. Something happened to me today and I am vibrating inside. I am literally vibrating in my soul, and my heart is just pouring, full of love, and it is just incredible, it’s incredible.”“This was the first thing that I wanted to put on my bucket list that everybody says they have. And it is the first thing on my bucket list that I’ve done because I am ill also,” she said. “And this was—it is amazing. I cannot wait to see the rest of it. And I would come back and see the show again. This is for sure.”
“It is unbelievable. The whole show is just, it’s amazing. I’m speechless. I can’t stop crying. My heart is so moved and touched. And I’m almost speechless. I’m really almost speechless,” she said.
“It’s heaven. It’s a description of heaven—in my eyes any way. This is how I feel. And I am so touched and I am overjoyed. I just can’t believe I’m here. I really cannot. I have goosebumps right now from my head to my toes,” Ms. Tokessy said.Ms. Tokessy said she felt a brilliant flash of light during the performance, not from the production, but something from above. “I’ve got goosebumps again,” she said, describing where the light had emerged. “It was pure white.”
“That’s how I can describe what I saw and what I experienced myself. The energy of the people and it’s just so loving and caring. It’s unbelievable,” she said. “I’m feeling so much right now.”
“Mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically, I am forever changed. I believe I am healing right now. I feel it. I believe this,” she said. “I am going through something incredible. Life reborn! I feel like that. I feel like my soul has been cleansed. ... This show has forever changed me, in every form.”
“This vibration, it’s the frequency of love. This is what [Shen Yun] portrayed, the story is beyond amazing. The dancers, the orchestra, the music, I don’t know how you come out of the show not changed.”
“I really knew I was here to experience something profound. ... And my mind is reeling,” she said. “I’ve been purified. There’s something that happened in my soul, even. Deep. It’s so profound.”
“There are no words to describe this show, really, you have to experience it. You have to be here. You really do.”
