INDIANAPOLIS—At the Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University, Shen Yun Performing Arts delivered “a magnificent production” according to Jim Martin, a retired college professor from Western Kentucky University.
Mr. Martin said “The dancing, the costumes, the projected backdrops it just all comes together to make a magnificent impression. I can’t think of how they can do any better than what we have seen.”
“We just appreciate culture and we’ve come to Indiana, my home state, to find it and we’re very pleased that it is here,” Martin professed. “I would say that it is a magnificent production when you get to see it, you'll be impressed and have a wonderful evening and you get a wonderful insight to the Chinese culture and that is really the important thing about it all.”
“It gives you the feel of history and what is taking place in that rather large country and to see all these performers together, in this kind of production just gives you a good feeling about that Chinese culture,” Mr. Martin said.
Joan Martin has a background in visual arts. She explained, “I’ve done some photography and done some other areas of art, ceramics and print making and so forth. I’m very interested in visual presentations.”
About the show, she said, “I think it’s wonderful, I really like the integration of the on stage and the background and how they integrated that and give you a context for the dance and I think that that’s superb.”
Mrs. Martin said the costumes were “exquisite, we saw the visual on the internet and how they did them, it’s just exquisite and I think a lot of the things that they do, they make it look so easy, people don’t appreciate how difficult some of those things are.”
“It is a beautiful representation of the classical Chinese dance and culture and it would be a must see. It’s hard to explain something in words that is so visual,” she said.
Reporting by Valerie Avore and Andrew R. Darin.
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has three touring companies that perform simultaneously around the world. The New York Company will have performances in Indianapolis on March 4 and 5. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
Mr. Martin said “The dancing, the costumes, the projected backdrops it just all comes together to make a magnificent impression. I can’t think of how they can do any better than what we have seen.”
“We just appreciate culture and we’ve come to Indiana, my home state, to find it and we’re very pleased that it is here,” Martin professed. “I would say that it is a magnificent production when you get to see it, you'll be impressed and have a wonderful evening and you get a wonderful insight to the Chinese culture and that is really the important thing about it all.”
“It gives you the feel of history and what is taking place in that rather large country and to see all these performers together, in this kind of production just gives you a good feeling about that Chinese culture,” Mr. Martin said.
Joan Martin has a background in visual arts. She explained, “I’ve done some photography and done some other areas of art, ceramics and print making and so forth. I’m very interested in visual presentations.”
About the show, she said, “I think it’s wonderful, I really like the integration of the on stage and the background and how they integrated that and give you a context for the dance and I think that that’s superb.”
Mrs. Martin said the costumes were “exquisite, we saw the visual on the internet and how they did them, it’s just exquisite and I think a lot of the things that they do, they make it look so easy, people don’t appreciate how difficult some of those things are.”
“It is a beautiful representation of the classical Chinese dance and culture and it would be a must see. It’s hard to explain something in words that is so visual,” she said.
Reporting by Valerie Avore and Andrew R. Darin.
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has three touring companies that perform simultaneously around the world. The New York Company will have performances in Indianapolis on March 4 and 5. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
