SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Shen Yun Is ‘Very Stunning and Captivating,’ Says Louisana Theatergoer

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Shen Yun Is ‘Very Stunning and Captivating,’ Says Louisana Theatergoer
Kathy Schott at Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Heymann Performing Arts Center on Jan. 17, 2024. Sonia Wu/The Epoch Times
LAFAYETTE, La.—Art teacher Kathy Schott knew little about traditional Chinese culture when she first stepped into Shen Yun’s evening show at the Heymann Performing Arts Center on Jan. 17.

Exiting the theater, she expressed that it was a beautiful experience.

“It was beautiful and really interesting—the different cultures and the different parts of China that were represented at different times—it was very good, very good. We really enjoyed it,” she said.

Since Shen Yun Performing Arts’ founding in 2006, its artists have made it their mission to share with the world China’s 5,000 years of traditional culture.
The New York-based classical Chinese dance and music company now includes eight equally sized companies that tour the world simultaneously.
From a teacher’s perspective, Ms. Schott said the performance was very educational and interesting. She loved that Shen Yun dancers were able to convey so many different stories and folklore through their movements.

Ms. Schott was especially impressed by Shen Yun’s story-based dance depicting a girl’s enduring devotion to her lover. She waited 18 years for his return.

“That was real sweet. She chose love over everything else, and when he was gone, she still clung to that, and she waited,” Ms. Schott said.

“To be that patient and have the love to surpass agony even though her family kept trying to pull her back—the devotion was there. That was beautiful. Our commitment to one another is so fulfilling—that’s what [humans] are about.”

Chris Cambre enjoyed Shen Yun's evening performance at the Heymann Performing Arts Center on Jan. 17, 2024. (Lily Yu/The Epoch Times)
Chris Cambre enjoyed Shen Yun's evening performance at the Heymann Performing Arts Center on Jan. 17, 2024. Lily Yu/The Epoch Times
Also in attendance was Chris Cambre, a Catholic priest, who remarked that Shen Yun was unlike anything he had ever experienced before.

“It’s a very unique experience. Very colorful, very beautiful. It was just visually very, very stunning and captivating,” he said, adding that though he is unfamiliar with Chinese music, it was “beautiful and very calming.”

Mr. Cambre also enjoyed the spiritual element of the performance.

“I was reading the lyrics when the soprano was singing and I thought it was beautiful what they were saying—that joy and happiness isn’t found in wealth and that all that [material] stuff. That’s something I can resonate with for sure,” he expressed.

“I think that, really, freedom is found in the divine—in God. Men are meant to be free, and to do that, we must look to the divine.”

He also loved the idea that Shen Yun is on a mission to bring back traditional culture.

“If something is good, true, and beautiful—we should not get rid of it. Rather, we should enrich it and keep it as long as we can.”

Reporting by Sonia Wu, Lily Yu, 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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