SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Shen Yun Is ‘Very Professional and Very Elegant,' Says California Lawyer

Mar 17, 2025

3/17/2025Updated: 3/17/2025

ESCONDIDO, Calif.—Shen Yun Performing Arts left a lasting impression on lawyers Dawn Dekle and Ray Warner after they attended the company’s matinee at the California Center for the Arts on March 16.

“Very engaging. The back screen, how they interact with [it,] that is amazing. How they jump into it and out of it is first class,” said Ms. Dekle, dean of a law school. “The costumes. Whoever the costume designer is—the bright colors, the fit—wonderful.”

According to the company’s website, Shen Yun’s patented 3D digital technology works together with the performers to “extend the stage to infinite realms” and brings to its audience “storytelling without limits.”

Moreover, Ms. Dekle loved that the artists’ mission is to bring back China’s 5,000 years of divine-inspired culture and values.

The performance “hearkens back to before the Cultural Revolution, so they get to have their culture, their dance, their singing, their religion,” she shared.

“The divine doesn’t exist in Communist China, so I can see that there’s an expression on the stage of all of this. It’s really well done. It’s very, very professional and very elegant.”

The New York-based Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by elite Chinese artists who had fled the persecution of the communist party.

China’s civilization flourished for millennia under the shared belief that the divine will bless those who uphold traditional moral values. Tragically, within just a few decades of the communist party’s violent takeover, these beliefs were erased and replaced with atheism.

Ms. Dekle believes that Shen Yun is an opportunity for Americans to open up to the “Eastern traditions of doing things.”

“It’s nice to see because the dancing is a bit different, their approach to expression is a bit different, harmony is different—In the West, you have a lot of [dissonance] in the arts, but here, you have a lot of harmony. To see all that is really beautiful. Very, very well done.”

She’s also very grateful to Shen Yun’s bilingual hosts, who provided a brief introduction before each program. They did a great job helping the audience, especially those unfamiliar with Chinese culture, understand what was happening, she said.

Mr. Warner, too, enjoyed the performance and was captivated by Shen Yun’s storytelling. He thought the show was “very exciting, very interesting, very colorful.”

“There’s nothing. There’s no other show, no other presentation around here that is culturally as engaging as this. It’s very nice,” he said.

Reporting by Jie Yang and Jennifer Tseng.

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.