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Shen Yun Enchants Audience in Llandudno

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Shen Yun Enchants Audience in Llandudno
Jonny Good and Christina Stannard at the Shen Yun Performing Arts performance at Llandudno, in the U.K. on Feb. 8, 2024. Mary Mann/The Epoch Times

LLANDUDNO, U.K.—The United Kingdom is one of the few remaining nations with a monarchy. Shen Yun Performing Arts uses dance and music to portray the famous emperors and other figures in Chinese history.

“The costumes are great, the music’s wonderful, the dancing and the tumbling is spectacular. It’s just really impressive, really impressive,” said Christina Stannard, a complaint insurance consultant who watched Shen Yun with her husband, Jonny Good, on Feb. 8.
Shen Yun is based in New York, and its mission is to revive 5,000 years of Chinese culture. With such a long history, very few people can remember every documented piece of it. So Shen Yun’s masters of ceremony are there to help the audience understand where each story is from.

“I do appreciate that the two announcers are giving us a little bit of context,” said Mr. Good, who works in customer service.

Shen Yun’s patented digital backdrop is an endless extension of the stage. When the dance story takes place in a forest or somewhere in the heavens, the digital backdrop brings that setting to life.

“I’ve been really enjoying that. I read about that in the program [book]. They said it was patented technology as well. I’m really intrigued to see that. It’s great the way the actors interact with it as well. The timing as well—they’ve got it down to the absolute split second. It’s very clever,” said Mr. Good.

Shen Yun’s dances vary from stories to ethnic and folk dances. The dance stories come from Chinese history and literature. Mr. Good shared that he enjoyed the dance retelling an episode from the book, “Journey to the West” as well as the dance portraying the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in modern-day China.

“The one that’s set in modern-day China, that actually hit quite hard. Very good,” said Mr. Good.

The couple shared their support for Shen Yunusing its art to raise awareness of these crimes against humanity still happening today.

“It’s good to bring it to the forefront ... we’re obviously lucky it doesn’t happen here, and you forget it’s happening now, right,” said Ms. Stannard.

China was once known as the land of the divine. Although the people were ruled under different dynasties, there was a consistent belief in divinity.

“I didn’t really know anything about the specifics of spirituality in China. But I quite like the whole idea that we came from the heavens to the earth,” said Mr. Good.

Shen Yun’s next stop in the U.K. is Liverpool.

Reporting by Mary Mann and Maria Han.
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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