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Shen Yun ‘Brings People Together to Appreciate Creative Expression and Beauty That God Has Created,’ Says Musician

Apr 01, 2024
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Shen Yun ‘Brings People Together to Appreciate Creative Expression and Beauty That God Has Created,’ Says Musician
Musician Gerard Alberts attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary on March 31, 2024. (Sherry Dong/The Epoch Times)
CALGARY, Canada—Musician Gerard Alberts attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium on March 31 and complimented Shen Yun’s live orchestra, which combines traditional Chinese and Western instruments.

“I love the music,” he said. “I like the blend between the classical Western instruments and the classical Chinese instruments. And it’s a beautiful orchestra, beautiful sound, and beautiful colors and dance. It was wonderful.”

New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has been the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company since its inception in 2006. Its performers come from all around the world, united in their mission to revive traditional Chinese culture and the beauty and goodness of China before communism.

Shen Yun currently has eight equally sized companies that tour the world simultaneously every year. It will delight audiences in over 200 cities across more than 20 countries on five continents during the 2024 season.

Mr. Alberts said that what really touched him was the expressiveness and creativity in Shen Yun’s performance.

“I am moved [by] the creative expression of people,” he said, noting that it is “so beautiful and entertaining and visually stunning.”

The artists’ skills also impressed Mr. Alberts, who praised them for being very talented.

“Incredible performance, very well disciplined, very practiced in their art in their dance and their movements,” Mr. Alberts said of the performers. “It’s just very entertaining. ... And I think they give honor to our Creator, God. And it’s just great to see people expressing themselves creatively and artistically, musically.”

He specifically noted the visuals of the opening piece, which depicts the traditional Chinese belief that human civilization actually originates from the heavens.
“There’s all kinds of visual imagery there that makes us think of all kinds of different things from history and from scriptures and from mythology,“ said Mr. Alberts. ”It’s just a very beautiful story.”

Mr. Alberts added that the performance “offered me inspiration to allow my creativity to be expressed” and that “it'll inspire me to be even more creative and colorful and expressive in my music.”

He also shared what he believed to be the essence of art that was expressed through Shen Yun.

“The real core of the art is the spirit,” he said. “The spirit of the universe, the spirit of humanity... the spirit of God. It’s the spirit of God being expressed through people, his creation through his children.”

Mr. Albert said that Shen Yun “brings people together to appreciate creative expression and beauty that God has created.”

Reporting by Sherry Dong and Wandi Zhu.

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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