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Consultant Says Shen Yun Shows People Something Bigger Than Themselves

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Consultant Says Shen Yun Shows People Something Bigger Than Themselves
Chris Pulos enjoyed Shen Yun at the Rosemont Theatre in Rosemont, Illinois, on March 16, 2024. Stacey Tang/The Epoch Times

ROSEMONT, Ill.—Chris Pulos said he applauded the artists of Shen Yun Performing Arts, and the direction in which they took their audience.

“I think that there is a moral compass to all of this, and I applaud the show,” said Mr. Pulos, a consultant for a Fortune 250 company. “We could all use a little bit more of a defined direction on where we’re heading.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, with a mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization through music and dance.
Though the ancient culture was new, and Mr. Pulos had not heard many of the stories and historical vignettes told through dance on stage, he said the performance was great in leading the audience along and giving them enough insight “so you got to understand exactly what you are looking at, so some of those traditions, I can understand.”

Mr. Pulos said there were values told through art in the performance, like that of caring for others.

“You could see that in some of the dance,” he said.

It showed a traditional culture “in tune” with a higher power, he added.

“I think that there is something, there should be something, above and beyond ourselves,” he said. “This type of play and this type of acting shows that. I think it mirrors what people are looking for. They’re looking for something a little bit bigger than themselves. Something bigger than themselves.”

“You can tell that the actors and the dancers are very passionate about what they do,” Mr. Pulos said.

Also in the audience that afternoon was Jeffrey Forzley, a chiropractor, who said he was seeing Shen Yun for the fourth time because the music, dance, and inspiration the performance delivered was something well-worth seeing again.

“The show was amazing. Oh, it’s amazing,” he said. “It’s a feeling of everything.”

“It’s very uplifting in a spiritual way,” he said. He noted the unique East-West orchestra and the original composition, but said he wasn’t only referring to the music accompanying the dance. A Shen Yun program typically includes solo singers who perform original Chinese songs in the traditional bel canto style, and Mr. Forzley said he read the lyrics, as one of the singers sang, and took the message to heart.

“It talked a lot about the Lord,” he said. “I think if you have God in your heart, then you are a better person because you don’t want to hurt other people. You don’t want to hurt the earth. You don’t want to poison the earth. So that is what I believe.”

With reporting by Stacey Tang.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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