On March 14, they attended the company’s evening show at the Keller Auditorium. The performance turned out to be everything they had hoped it would be and more.
“It was beautiful. It really touched me, and I was very moved,” she expressed.
“You could feel the practice and the spiritual energy through the dance. It’s almost as if you could feel the healing and the connection to the divine through their movements and the music.”
Mr. Diaz was “struck by the grace and all the beauty that [Shen Yun] portrayed.” He especially enjoyed the piece where female dancers used yellow fans to emulate blooming flowers and herald the coming of spring.
“I found that really cool. The way they’re all synchronized and were able to create a spiral or go along with the wave—that was really great.”
Reflecting on the artists’ mission to bring back traditional values, Mr. Diaz said, “It’s really important not to let globalization and technology wipe away all these great traditions from the past that have so much wisdom.”
“[Shen Yun] inspired us in a lot of different ways. It makes me want to go back to my home country of Colombia to try to inspire people to do something along these lines.”
When introducing Shen Yun to her friends and family, Ms. Hall said she would “describe it as an experience that will take you beyond time and space.”
“[The show] will really allow you to connect with a very ancient, traditional, millennia-old culture beyond what you can find in any history books.”
