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Shen Yun Is Bringing Peace, Love, Joy, and Kindness, Says County Commissioner

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Shen Yun Is Bringing Peace, Love, Joy, and Kindness, Says County Commissioner
Mary Ann Borgeson enjoyed Shen Yun's evening performance at the Orpheum Theater, in Omaha, on April 4, 2023. NTD

OMAHA, Neb.—Mary Ann Borgeson, a chairwoman of the Douglas County Board of Commissioners, thoroughly enjoyed Shen Yun’s evening performance at the Orpheum Theater on April 4.

“It was beautiful! Honest to goodness, it was so expressive—so beautiful in all of the movements and music,” she exclaimed.

“It really does warm your heart watching all of the [programs.]”

Based in New York, Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Its performance is comprised of a series of short pieces that takes its audience on a ride through the dynasties and across the vast regions of China.
Using classical Chinese, folk, and ethnic dances, as well as solo musical performances, Shen Yun tells tales from ancient times to the modern day.
Ms. Borgeson loved the artists’ depiction of traditional Chinese culture.
“You can really truly feel [the] people—their beauty, their calmness, their peace, their embracing of each other—I just think it was so well done. [The words] ‘so beautiful’ just keeps coming to mind for me.”
It was difficult for Ms. Borgeson to pick out which aspect of Shen Yun impressed her most because all the individual elements came together as a whole.
“You’re brought in by the colors, but then you hear the music, and then you’re watching what’s [going on]—you’re just embraced in it. All of that together makes it an amazing performance,” she expressed.
Prior to the 1949 communist takeover, Chinese people were deeply spiritual and believed that their culture was a gift from the divine. However, with the spread of atheism by the communist regime, this belief was destroyed.
Since its founding in 2006, Shen Yun artists seek to revive traditional culture and bring it to the world’s stage—China before communism.

This mission resonated deeply with Ms. Borgeson, and she thought Shen Yun should “spread more of that love, calmness, peace, and kindness—that’s what we need more of.”

Though many of these values are now scarce in China, Ms. Borgeson felt touched that Shen Yun is “bringing them to us and showing us that beauty.”

“We are so divided in the world today with the ugliness and the hatred that we feel,” she added.

“[Shen Yun] is bringing us back to our hearts, our love, our peace, and our [desire] to be the beings that we were supposed to be—true beings—bringing peace and love and joy and kindness. This was what I gathered and felt while watching the performance.”

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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