Exiting the theater, she expressed that it was a beautiful experience.
“It was beautiful and really interesting—the different cultures and the different parts of China that were represented at different times—it was very good, very good. We really enjoyed it,” she said.
Ms. Schott was especially impressed by Shen Yun’s story-based dance depicting a girl’s enduring devotion to her lover. She waited 18 years for his return.
“That was real sweet. She chose love over everything else, and when he was gone, she still clung to that, and she waited,” Ms. Schott said.
“To be that patient and have the love to surpass agony even though her family kept trying to pull her back—the devotion was there. That was beautiful. Our commitment to one another is so fulfilling—that’s what [humans] are about.”
“It’s a very unique experience. Very colorful, very beautiful. It was just visually very, very stunning and captivating,” he said, adding that though he is unfamiliar with Chinese music, it was “beautiful and very calming.”
“I was reading the lyrics when the soprano was singing and I thought it was beautiful what they were saying—that joy and happiness isn’t found in wealth and that all that [material] stuff. That’s something I can resonate with for sure,” he expressed.
“I think that, really, freedom is found in the divine—in God. Men are meant to be free, and to do that, we must look to the divine.”
He also loved the idea that Shen Yun is on a mission to bring back traditional culture.
“If something is good, true, and beautiful—we should not get rid of it. Rather, we should enrich it and keep it as long as we can.”
