HOLLYWOOD—Videographer Connor Linnerooth had two words on the top of his mind to describe Shen Yun Performing Arts after attending the company’s matinee at the Dolby Theatre on May 4. He thought the performance was “astounding” and “incredible.”
“It’s moving to me, watching all of these incredible people just in uniform, and you are doing these incredible movements. It was unbelievable.”
As a videographer, Mr. Linnerooth was very impressed by “the symbiotic relationship between the people on stage and the screen.”
According to its website, Shen Yun’s innovative digital technology creates seamless interaction between the backdrop projection and the performers on stage. “By extending the stage to infinite realms,” this patented 3D invention brings to the audience “storytelling without limits.”
“It was done with such uniformity. I couldn’t even tell sometimes what was happening. It was incredible to see something like that. You'd see [this] usually on like a movie screen, CGI effects, but on a stage with actual performers—it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before,” he said.
“It was seamless. Changing the scenery on the backdrop was a seamless, wonderful effect that I’ve never seen done in any other show before. The lighting was gorgeous. The lighting was these colorful, vibrant, just beautiful, artistic paintings. It was like I was watching a bunch of paintings and movement.”
Today, New York-based Shen Yun is working to revive this lost civilization and bring back to the world through dance and music, the beauty of pre-communist China.
Summing up his experience, Mr. Linnerooth would say, “Seeing Shen Yun on stage is very transcendental.”
“All of the different pieces together … very seamless. The music, the dancing— all of it just blended so well. I thought they all were out of this world, to be frank. Divine. I would use the word divine,” he shared.
“It’s a very religious experience when you’re going to it’s something very moving and powerful, and it’s something that you just really have to see once in your lifetime. … I had a spiritual experience when I saw it on stage.”
“I think those values like peace and respect and dignity are something that we need a lot more of in today’s society,” he said.
