“I’ve always wanted to see it,” Novak, a psychotherapist, said. “And I heard it was coming to Boise, and I just could not resist to see it. It’s fantastic. It’s just mesmerizing.”
“I used to be a dancer when I was much younger ... the technique is sublime. It’s just perfect; it’s just precise. It’s precision all the time, nonstop. It’s grace, it’s beauty, it’s flawless, it’s colorful; it’s truly mesmerizing.”
“And spirituality ... It’s all combined, all brought together—it’s uplifting,” Novak said.
“It just brings together the millennia-old tradition that we are all connected, to something greater than ourselves ... the sense of unity and compassion and connection with the earth, the celebration of life and color, rebirth and hope. You just cannot see this show and remain unchanged,” he said.
“[I am] completely revived, reenergized, inspired! It’s amazing to see that there are so many people out there who have this talent, and they have the ability to express it in such a pure, and at the same time, humble way that touches you so deeply,” he said.
“It’s just incredible, the emotion portrayed by the dancers; you get lost in the story,” she said.
“[Shen Yun] is very pure. It dreams of a better world and filling an element of beauty and nature and what is around us, and the beauty of Creation. I’m a Christian, so I believe that there is a God that created all of this and it’s wonderful to see all of that brought together.”
“I have a series of dancers that I call the nebula dancers. So, they’re actually dancing in the beauty of space,” she said.
“Because you see what you look for. And it’s so easy to see all the darkness and hurt in the world.