Shen Yun Performing Arts impressed Paris audiences from Feb. 14 to 19 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris. Theatergoers described the show as a true wonder.
“Everything is perfect, both technically and dance wise,” said Sylvie Martin, who is the founder of YogAir Studio. “I think I have never seen anything so accomplished, so it’s a real wonder. It’s a real wonder, and you don’t have enough of these two eyes to see and appreciate everything,”
“I’m really, very happy,” said Jean-Luc Quivogne, who is the president of Aria Industries. “The show is sensational, the choreography is beautiful, the costumes are gorgeous, the dynamics are there. It’s really exceptional.”
Audience members were moved by the traditional values that Shen Yun aims to revive.
“My feeling is extremely moved by what you bring back, you go back to [an early] century and you bring back all this Chinese culture,” Mr. Quivogne said.
“Today, we are looking for the real values. So given my age, I had values of course when I was young. Today, they’re going away and I’m really happy to have come and watched this show with all the values you’re bringing back,” he added.
“I think that there are things that are too modern today that want to make us forget that we all come from these traditions, no matter where we come from. For the Chinese, I understand that they have a great pride in this tradition,” said Pascal de Varine-Bohan, a coporate secretary general.
“We feel the values, the values that spirituality advocates, which are cruelly lacking in our world today. So when we sense the beauty, when we sense the work behind this dance, we sense the spirituality that it gives off,” said Dorothée de Varine-Bohan, the owner of a real estate company. ”I think that spirituality and faith, whatever the religion, whatever it is, is universal. So it echoes all these values that are completely universal.”
Some audience members say Shen Yun is a show that brings light.
“Spirituality is the passage between the afterlife and here through the art in fact. But I believe that’s the goal of this art, it’s to connect us to heaven,” Mr. de Varine-Bohan said.
“It’s quite moving to see something divine. I don’t know, but there is a force or there is an incredible energy, a very, very beautiful energy,” Ms. Martin said.
“This show can bring a light to the world, even if today we live in a world that’s a little bit brutal, a little bit far away from all these antiquities, this cultural research. But I’m extremely responsive to bringing back—to going back a little bit and putting the real basic values back in the world,” Mr. Quivogne said.
Shen Yun will bring six more performances to Paris in April.
NTD News, Paris, France.
