STAMFORD, Conn.—Mark Crosson thought Shen Yun Performing Arts would make for a wonderful birthday gift for his wife, so booked tickets for opening night in Stamford, Connecticut, and drove up from Long Island, New York, to see the performance.
“It was beautiful and I thought obviously the performers were masters, writers, the craft,” Mr. Crosson said after seeing Shen Yun at The Palace Theatre on March 7, adding that his wife loved it as well. The couple are lawyers and own their own firm.
“I say congratulations. They’re obviously very devoted to their craft and the shows. It’s beautiful. From the first, I think it was before they even announced the first thing ... in the first minute or so, I think the first words I said was, ‘Wow, beautiful.’ It’s beautiful,” he said.
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, with a mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization—or China before communism.
“I thought it was gorgeous. A couple of times I was ready, a little choked up, ready to cry myself,” Mr. Crosson said.
“It was just saying this is the way we felt before communism, right? I’m not saying anything about communism,” he said. “It was just like, this is the way we saw things before this transpired. And to me, it seemed very enlightened, very free, very beautiful, and passionate.”
Mr. Crosson said the divinely inspired aspect of the traditional Chinese culture was evident on stage, and believed that was the very thing the communist regime sought to stamp out.
