Costa Mesa Audience Member Says Shen Yun Is ‘Most Magnificent Show’

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Audience members at Shen Yun Performing Arts said they were delighted with the company’s artistry at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, on April 17 and had high praise for the performers.

“Every story was so beautiful, and the technology, plus live performance, it took a miracle to combine it the way you did,” said Yolanda Holly, a former business owner. “This show is the most magnificent show I have ever seen.”

“I really enjoyed it. It was outstanding, amazing,” Ana Blum, a company director, said. “The combination of colors and the agility of each one of the artists, wonderful. All the costumes were done beautifully, and according to the theme of the act.”

Brian Seaman, a business owner, said, “The choreography is great, the costumes are fantastic. The sound, the music, it's just an awesome show, which is why we wanted to come again, and we'll probably be coming in future years as well.

“It's very uplifting. It's just a really beautiful, beautiful presentation. Just makes you feel really, really good.”

“I really enjoyed the juxtaposition between the force when the men were dancing and the grace when the women were dancing,” said Virginia Alspaugh, an attorney.

“I like how, as soon as they act like they're disappearing, then all of a sudden, they show on the screen. Perfect timing,” said Shawn Schofield, a company advisor.

Through classical Chinese dance, music, and stories, Shen Yun aims to revive China’s 5,000 year old traditions, rich in spiritual and artistic heritage—a culture that was once almost lost when Communism took power in 1949.

“There is a higher source. There's a higher being, spirituality. And that's what I liked, how they portrayed that communism actually controls the people and keeps them actually having a relationship with God,” said Rocky Pavone, a certified financial educator.

Mr. Seaman said “society has just really gone off the deep end, I think. To find belief in things that are important to you is important, and there'd be a lot more peace in the world.”

Ms. Alspaugh added that “stifling someone's freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of belief, it's just so antithetical to what we believe. And so it just makes you angry to see someone being repressed.

“I'm going home happy, full of love and enjoyment. And I recommend that to everyone highly. I recommend that everyone see it at least once in your life,” Mr. Pavone said.

Shen Yun will be performing at the Proctors in Schenectady, New York, on April 22nd and the 23rd.
NTD News, Costa Mesa, California

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