Shen Yun Is ‘Everything That We Need Right Now,’ Says Artist
Jan 30, 2023
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Lara Rivera enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, Spain on Jan. 29., 2023. (NTD)
BILBAO, Spain—Artist Lara Rivera has seen Shen Yun Performing Arts many times because it’s never the same experience.
“And tonight it was overwhelming because of the deep message that it emits, and because of the wave of color, coordination, everything. But above all for the deep message that is emitted, which is very important,” said Ms. Rivera after seeing New York-based Shen Yun’s single performance at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, Spain this year on Jan. 29.
For Ms. Rivera, this message was that “it is important to maintain the traditions.”
“That it is important to maintain one’s being, and that we are something more than just soil and body, that we are immense souls, we are divine, and to remember it, not to forget it. And to behave accordingly among all of us,” she said.
Shen Yun, the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, seeks to revive the beauty and goodness of 5,000 years of divinely inspired civilization.
It was a culture rife with universal values, such as loyalty, justice, benevolence, wisdom, and propriety. Audiences the world over have reported great resonance with what Shen Yun delivers through music and dance.
“It has shaken me,” Ms. Rivera said. She attended the performance with friends, who she said shared her sentiments. “My friends are absolutely knocked out because I have brought them, told them it was all dance, and acrobatics, but I did not tell them the background.”
“They were excited, they cried, they stood up,” she said. “It is immense what has been felt.”
“Everything is touching, everything is very deep, but above all the voices, the live performances, it is very important, the live music, the voices. There are no words to describe it,” she said.
Ms. Rivera is a writer, but here she said she fell short of words.
“Because it is very moving, especially deep, very moving, thrilling because the body feels it, the body knows, there is something inside the body that is moving at very strong levels,” Ms. Rivera said.
Each Shen Yun artist alone conveyed a great depth, and with so many of them so perfectly coordinated, it was “exquisite, exquisite,” Ms. Rivera added.
Ms. Rivera encouraged all to see Shen Yun as soon as they could, because “it’s something different, and something that is favorable for us to grow, and everything that we need right now, to expand and to be.”
She only wished she could see Shen Yun more often.
