“It was very nice and comforting to my eye,” company owner Ladan Mahdavi said. “I love the colors, I love the dancers, I love the elegance. It was very pleasant. I really enjoyed it.”
“I just love the serenity of the dancers … just the storyline, the ancient storyline. I think it is fantastic in this modern era, to take you back to an ancient time when life was very much more simple,” said deputy finance director Jeremy Spearing.
After watching the performance, business owner Chris Leach said she felt and saw a beautiful sense of calm watching Shen Yun—the world's premier classical Chinese dance and music company that was established in New York in 2006 to share the full glory of authentic Chinese culture with the world, much of which has been lost in modern China.
“Actually, being calm can solve an awful lot of problems,” she said. “Aggression is no good without having calm and without having that underlying belief in other people, and the belief in humans to be able to be kind and be loving and be thoughtful.”
Each Shen Yun performance features a live orchestra and a state-of-the-art digital backdrop that the dancers interact with to tell their magical stories.
Engineer Martin Keilaus also commended Shen Yun's musical virtuosos. “The lady that came on stage with the two-string instrument, it was like: Wow! Such music from just two strings.”
He also enjoyed the dancing, costumes, and storytelling. “The whole thing was vibrant, colorful, energetic. Brings you back to one with yourself, just everything. Really good.”
“The costumes and the colors are absolutely brilliant. I can come every week,” Michelle Samphier-Newman, a business specialist, said.
“To perform at such a high level, I understand that all performers, you need to commit and dedicate your whole life. And I'm really quite inspired by the young people that I see, not only on the stage, but also in the orchestra. I look at the orchestra also and see the very young people playing at a very high level, so that I find very inspiring,” Spearing added.
