PORTLAND, Ore.—Chris Fenning had seen Shen Yun Performing Arts advertised for years and decided tickets to the world-renowned classical Chinese dance performance would make the perfect Christmas gift. On March 16, Mr. Fenning and his wife, Beth, saw Shen Yun for the first time and left uplifted and inspired by the performance at the Keller Auditorium.
“It’s absolutely beautiful,” Mrs. Fenning said of her gift.
“It heals the soul from the inside out, and I believe that,” he said. He added that he was walking away from the performance “with a whole different attitude and feeling uplifted.”
Mrs. Fenning commented that it seemed that traditional Chinese culture could only thrive outside of China with the communist regime in power today, but the couple saw hope in Shen Yun.
