MURCIA, Spain—On the afternoon and evening of March 29, Shen Yun Performing Arts presented its second and third local performances in Murcia, Spain, at the Auditorio Víctor Villegas. Both shows had been sold out for more than three months. At the conclusion of the evening performance, the audience responded with standing ovations lasting several minutes, and the artists returned to the stage for three curtain calls.
With these performances, Shen Yun concluded its Murcia engagement to full houses, marking a perfect finale to its 27-show tour across seven cities in Spain—every performance sold out.
Among those attending the evening performance was María Eugenia Sánchez Pérez, a member of the regional parliament, who was accompanied by her mother. Having been deeply impressed when she first saw Shen Yun, Ms. Sánchez returned this year so her mother could share the experience.
Ms. Sánchez, who serves on the Murcia Regional Parliament’s committees on Health and Social Policy, Petitions, and Civil Defense, said Shen Yun’s performance this year offered a fresh artistic perspective while preserving its emotional impact. The company tours the world each year with all-new choreography, presenting the beauty of “China before communism.”
“It’s just as impressive, with different sets, colors, and performances, but it remains just as impactful,” she said. “Beyond that, it reflects something vital for any society: tradition, culture, and our history, because that is truly who we are, isn’t it? We cannot forget the past, because we are the evolution of everything that came before us.”
She emphasized the importance of safeguarding these values. “It is so important that a government does not erase our past, our culture, our traditions, our unity, our faith, and our freedom,” she said. “The future of a society without those principles, values, and culture is simply an empty society—a society of individuals who are easily manipulated, as communism intends, and without a future.”
Attending Shen Yun for the first time, Ms. Sánchez’s mother was equally moved by the performance.
“I loved it—I was just telling her,” she said. “It seemed as if the girls were flying instead of walking. It was beautiful, with such finesse and delicacy; simply lovely. It must have taken so much work for them to learn how to do that. Oh, thank you!”
She said every aspect of the production left a deep impression on her. “We loved it and were impressed by it all because, for me, I had never seen anything so beautiful. It’s my first time here, so I was very struck by it.”
Ms. Sánchez also underscored the importance of the performance’s message.
“And the message—the message it conveyed was very important,” she said. “It’s a way to open society’s eyes a bit. It encourages people not to get swept away by this dizzying pace that leads us toward things we’ve never seen before.”
She added that these messages are especially relevant in contemporary society. “As we were saying earlier, these forces come to destroy the principles and values that most of us here were raised with—myself included,” she said. “Yes, absolutely—both on a cultural level and in terms of the message it transmits.”
“Of course—I’d like to congratulate them on their perfection,” she said. “I would also like to express my gratitude for the effort of the entire company, the dancers, and everyone involved in maintaining such a high level of excellence, because there is perfection in everything—perfection in the dancing, the movement.”
Her mother echoed these sentiments. “The dancers—it’s just unthinkable how they can do it so well,” she said. “And the music was beautiful. Thank you. How they jumped, how they walked—everything was beautiful.”
