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Entrepreneur: Shen Yun Song Is an Appeal to Allow Our Inner Potential to Unfold

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Entrepreneur: Shen Yun Song Is an Appeal to Allow Our Inner Potential to Unfold
Andreas Gnesda enjoyed Shen Yun at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Austria, on Feb. 12, 2023. NTD
SALZBURG, Austria—Andreas Gnesda, whose Vienna-based company Teamgnesda designs office and work spaces, brought some of his staff to the Großes Festspielhaus, or Great Festival Center, to see a performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts the afternoon of Feb. 12.

“And we are enjoying it very much today,” Mr. Gnesda said.

Mr. Gnesda commented on how New York-based Shen Yun presented Chinese culture. “I liked it very, very much. [It’s] a culture that I’m almost not familiar with, I’ve never been to China.”

And he was happy to learn more. “It brought me closer to that in a nice way, and that’s very insightful,” he said. “It’s incredibly aesthetic, and ultimately it hits you very personally. So this is a very, very nice encounter with a very, very different culture.”

Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and through music and dance aims to revive 5,000 years of China’s divinely inspired civilization.

Mr. Gnesda spoke of how Shen Yun made an impression on him personally.
“Well, at first I was totally impressed by the pictures that are painted there, by the movements, by the acrobatic interludes. But in the end, the deeper impression is much stronger. What is conveyed with the acting, with the dance, and also with the wonderful singing that we heard, that was really great. That’s just moving,” he said.
In addition to several dance vignettes, Shen Yun performances also include solos by bel canto vocalists, and their songs inspired Mr. Gnesda.

“The message of the song is that we humans are most likely to limit ourselves. The singer expressed that to us beautifully. And it’s very reassuring that it’s the same in China as it is in Europe.”

He spoke about personal potential that the performance presented.

“I think that very often we humans put barriers on ourselves and don’t even get the chance to develop our potentials. And for me, this song was quite a strong appeal to bring the inner potentials to unfold.”

The lyrics brought out the idea of a person’s inner nature, he said.

“That also comes naturally in the [song]. It’s simply about, I think, at the beginning of the song there was some line, that every human being comes into the world with a mission and that souls come into the world to do a mission here. And if they don’t do it, then they keep coming back. And I have a lot of sympathy for that thought.”

He felt the message was that we come from heaven and we all have a mission. “I believe the original source of man comes from heaven,“ he said. ”And heaven is on earth with it, because a little bit of that heaven is carried by everyone in us. And that is here on earth. And everyone has a little bit different mission.”

Although the culture was foreign to Mr. Gnesda, the essence was deeply familiar.

When I think about the song and the performance that we saw today, it’s always the same things that it’s about. It’s about love. It’s about being together, about living with each other, getting along with each other, bringing out what’s inside of each one of us, no matter what part of the earth we are born on.”

Reporting by NTD.
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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