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We Need Shen Yun ‘To Remember Who We Are,’ Says Music Producer

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We Need Shen Yun ‘To Remember Who We Are,’ Says Music Producer
Minerva Borjas enjoyed Shen Yun's evening show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, in Miami, on March 14, 2026. NTD
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MIAMI—Singer and producer Minerva Borjas was amazed by the beauty of Shen Yun Performing Arts’ music when she attended the company’s third show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on March 14.

“It was impressive. Every detail, it sounded like it was recorded because it was so perfect,” she praised. All the instruments and the mix of the sounds was blissful.”

Based in New York, Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company.
Each of Shen Yun’s eight equally sized companies is accompanied by a live orchestra that uses classical Western orchestration as its foundation while highlighting traditional Chinese melodies and instruments, such as the two-stringed erhu and the pipa, an ancient lute.

“It caught my attention that [this] blend of music worked so well, and for thousands of years,” Ms. Borjas said. “Now, we are together creating something even more beautiful, but also respecting the heritage of the Chinese culture when it was so pure and so connected to what we all feel about beauty, about harmony.”

Having been a gymnast, Ms. Borjas was intrigued to learn that many movements seen in gymnastics actually originated from classical Chinese dance.

“I can see it. I was a gymnast for a long time, and I was appreciating the [performers’] stance and the precision, the ease of the movements. It’s impressive. I wonder how many hours they put into this beautiful art to give it to us. I’m so grateful.”

She also praised the singers and the erhu soloist.

“The erhu, the instrument that it’s similar to the voice—the soprano and the tenor voices were also are similar to the instrument,” she said.

“In that sense, the devotion that they evoke, it’s beautiful. The emotion that they put [in] was amazing to watch.”

Shen Yun’s singers are trained in the classical Bel Canto—a style known for its ability to create tones of unparalleled beauty and purity. Through original compositions and lyrics, the artists invite the listener to explore the deeper meanings of life.

Ms. Borjas loved that the company is reviving traditional moral values and culture, bringing to the world through dance and music the beauty of China before communism.

The lyrics are “rescuing the values of being human and that condition of divinity, in music and in the arts, and in all of us. It really is like remembering that we all share that yearning,” she said.

“I think, [Shen Yun’s] message is of the sacred aspect of the human being. Translated into art, it’s easier to understand. It’s a beautiful bridge to explain it and to actually experience what it means.”

Ms. Borjas said she is eager to share her experience at Shen Yun with others.

“I will definitely recommend the show to friends and family,” she stated. “I actually brought some of my family members here tonight, and they loved it.”

“I want to thank each and every architect of this beautiful [performance]—the director, the choreographers, and each artist that was a part of this because we need this beautiful piece to remember who we are.”

Reporting by NTD 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.
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