“It was an honor to be a part of a performance that is so rich in culture, and it opened my eyes to how advanced and how historical [Chinese] culture is. … Performing it with such emotion, such grace—it was beautiful,” Ms. Brigham said.
“It brought out my inner child, and it made me cry on multiple occasions because it was so beautiful and so amazing to see. … The beauty makes you cry because it’s so peaceful. It’s just so glorious to watch.”
According to the company’s website, the name ‘Shen Yun” translates directly into “the beauty of divine beings dancing,” which Ms. Brigham felt embodied the performance perfectly.
Ms. Brigham was especially moved by the spiritual element of the performance. It spoke to her “on a level beyond earthly understanding.”
“It brought out a sense of enlightenment and a sense of you want everyone to see the show. If [people] have not seen it, I highly recommend [they] come out and see it,” she urged.
“Shen Yun, for me, just means the beauty of life. It’s so rich in its expression. It’s beyond what you would imagine a performance to actually be. It’s just so beautiful and so enlightening and so informative in ways that are very hard to put into words.”
“It was a very enlightening and beautiful thing to see a higher power come down and protect humankind from natural disaster. It was just beautiful and divine to see the belief system behind it—the entity, the power that we descended from actually came down and protected its people.”
What she will take home from the evening, she said, is “the hope of a beautiful life and future, and that beauty blooms from within.”
“The purity from within came out in such a beautiful, transformative way. It’s just an amazing thing to see and I'd never, in my 32 years of living, believe I would ever see such a beautiful performance and be touched the way that I was tonight—in such a beautiful, magnificent way.”
