HOUSTON—Juan Valdez, director of engineering for the city of Houston, and his daughter saw Shen Yun Performing Arts at the CFISD Visual and Performing Arts Center on Feb. 15.
Mr. Valdez was so impressed with Shen Yun that he couldn’t put a rating on it.
“No rating. You can’t put a number. It takes you out of the scale of rating. If you say a ten, you cannot compare it—it’s more than that. You cannot describe it, you have to experience it.”
Audience members have felt an array of emotions when experiencing Shen Yun.
“To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what I was expecting. So when they showed the first scene, I was just speechless; a lot of emotions came to me at the same time, like happiness. Internally, it was so overwhelming. … You felt every emotion through the performance,” Mr. Valdez said.
Shen Yun opens with a heavenly scene. Mr. Valdez described it as “Magical. It was like seeing the clouds when they opened the curtain.”
When the performance ended, he wanted to see more about Chinese culture.
“Transcendent. It had more than [what you see] at face value. It was more than that,” he said.
“We’re going through tribulations nowadays. So this was a little bit of a parallel to everyday life for us.
