PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Shen Yun Performing Arts delighted the audience at the Providence Performing Arts Center on Mother’s Day, May 11.
A musician couple, Glenn and Susan Carliss, enjoyed the performance immensely.
Mrs. Carliss, a librarian and singer, said, “The dancing was dazzling, the costumes spectacular. We’ve been waiting for years, and we finally came. It’s our first time to see it and we will tell all our friends.”
Mr. Carliss, a trumpet player and musician, took note of the orchestra’s beautiful sounds. “It’s great,” he said. “We really enjoyed it. The music was great.”
Mr. Carliss said the solo performance of the two-string erhu was “spectacular. The music was really good.”
Being a trumpeter himself, Mr. Carliss said, “The trumpet player was very good,” as he could see him in the orchestra pit.
Mrs. Carliss noted how the trombone was used as a musical theme for Piggy, a character from the Chinese classic story, “Journey to the West.”
He liked the spectacular scene on stage: “Everything. The dancing was spectacular and the color palette was just dazzling. Very nice,” he said.
Mrs. Carliss agreed. “There’s many years of training. You can see that.”
Shen Yun’s patented animated backdrop interacts with the performers, who seem to jump into the sky and fly to other realms. Mr. Carliss thought it was “really interesting.”
“Very clever,” Mrs. Carliss added. “How they go in and out of it, and it was done with great timing. And I’ve never seen anything like that at any show before. That was really exciting.”
She also enjoyed the dances. “I like the folktales,” she said. They had “dazzling beauty. The colors were great.”
She enjoyed the dances of “both the men and the women. It kept our attention every minute. We’re theatergoers and we do enjoy it,” she said.
