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Lawyers Moved by Bravery and Expression of Freedom in Shen Yun

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Lawyers Moved by Bravery and Expression of Freedom in Shen Yun
Manuel Otero Cantudo and Maria Isabel Sanchez San Roman enjoyed Shen Yun on the evening of March 4, 2023 at the RiojaForum in Logroño, Spain. The Epoch Times
LOGROÑO, Spain—Manuel Otero Cantudo and María Isabel Sanchez San Roman, both in the legal profession, drove nearly eight hours to be able to see Shen Yun Performing Arts in Logroño.

“We’ve come a long way because tickets had run out in Seville,” Mrs. San Roman explained.

The couple saw the performance the evening of March 4, at the RiojaForum, catching the third of New York-based Shen Yun’s four performances in Logroño.

It is the most beautiful thing that exists.
Maria Isabel Sanchez San Roman

“Their art is wonderful, but I admire their courage even more, to fight against the oppression they have suffered and is suffering today. Because that is what makes me talk to people, that we tell all this. They are very brave,” said Mr. Cantudo, who is also familiar with his arts, his mother being the well known Spanish actress María José Cantudo.

Mrs. San Roman similarly expressed her encouragement to the performers, hoping they would not “stop doing this, no matter what.”

“It is a wonderful message, and above all that they use culture for this, the performing arts to give this message, it is the most beautiful thing that exists. It’s the body expression without the verbal language is fantastic,” she said.

The costumes were elegant, she said, almost “vaporous,” enhancing the dancers’ “elegance in the gestures, in the dances and in their faces.”

The visuals, combined with “the wonderful music, the fantastic orchestra director, the instruments, the musicians,” gave Mrs. San Roman “a lot of tranquility, a lot of harmony ... a tranquility that I love.”

Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, and takes as its mission to show the world “China before communism.”
Mr. Cantudo said he was familiar with the atrocities of communism around the world, and through Shen Yun he realized for the first time how much China had lost to communism. His message was not tragic, but hopeful, as he saw in Shen Yun people willing to stand by their beliefs.
“It has impacted me very positively that there are so many people with so much will to fight against that oppression. I admire the people in this group,” he said. “I love to see the customs, the Chinese history. It is wonderful.”
Reporting by Haiying Wang. 
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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