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Retired Colonel: Shen Yun’s Dancers Are Dancing With Their Soul and Spirit

Feb 28, 2024
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Retired Colonel: Shen Yun’s Dancers Are Dancing With Their Soul and Spirit
Alain Noury at the Shen Yun Performing Arts performance at Palais des Congrès de Tours on Feb. 23, 2024. (NTD)
TOURS, France—A dancer successfully captivates the audience when they put their heart and soul into each movement. Alain Noury, a retired army colonel, saw the soul behind each dancer in Shen Yun Performing Arts, and he was highly impressed.

“The dancers are working with their soul, they’re dancing with their spirit—they’re not just dancing with their bodies. There’s something in them that transcends themselves on stage. They’re there for the enjoyment, the well-being of others. On the outside they are professionals, but on the inside, there’s a simple soul made up of blissfulness and spirit,” said Mr. Noury.

Shen Yun is based in New York, and its mission is to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. From prehistory to the present day, the audience journeys through it all.

“It was a beautiful, magnificent show, one where you’re transported to another place, where you let yourself be carried away,” he said.

Since 2006, Shen Yun has grown from one to eight companies touring around the world simultaneously. And each year, Shen Yun puts on an all-new production.

“All the color that surrounds this performance, the multiple costumes, transport us to China’s history. And now we want to come back, and we probably will, since the hostess told us that just because you see the show once doesn’t mean you’ve seen everything. So we'll definitely be back,” said Mr. Noury.

Mr. Noury also shared his fascination with Shen Yun’s artists. Their passion and dedication inspired him to return to see Shen Yun again.

“We want to get to know these people. We’ve glimpsed into something that is certainly good. So we want to get to know them better. We want to come back one more time,” he said.

China is the place where great emperors created Golden Ages for their dynasties and valiant generals fought to protect their land. But since communism took over, the Chinese Communist Party set out to rewrite history and destroy traditional culture.

“Shen Yun has shown us that China is a magnificent country, but there is also harshness and suffering. Hopefully one day everyone there will be able to experience freedom,” shared Mr. Noury.

Shen Yun’s digital backdrop is patented technology. It allows the stage to be extended endlessly, and the dancers are able to travel to the dragon king’s palace in the sea or visit the lady of the moon in the blink of an eye.

“The digital backdrop is magnificently done. We can see the dancers taking flight on the screen,” said Mr. Noury.

With the help of the backdrop, Shen Yun’s final dance portrays the Creator offering salvation at the moment of desperation.

“We saw the scene of the natural disaster on earth, and then the Buddha who wards off this misfortune. We said to ourselves, yes maybe we’re protected, maybe there’s a divinity somewhere who’s protecting us and who will certainly bring us back to peace one day. We felt it at that moment,” expressed Mr. Noury.

He also shared his wholehearted recommendation that everyone should come to see Shen Yun.

“You absolutely have to go and see it,” he said.

Reporting by NTD and Maria Han.
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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