BURLINGTON, Vt.—Joseph Kupka, an architect, had been intrigued by videos he'd seen of Shen Yun Performing Arts and had booked tickets to a performance with expectations of a high level of beauty. It was all that and more, he shared afterward. It was an experience that pulled you into a world of magic.
“It’s the old culture that we don’t see,” Mr. Krupka said, appreciative of Shen Yun’s mission.
“The history of it, and it’s been forgotten, in with the rush of everything in today’s society. And to be able to bring that back, it brings back a teaching, too, which we are missing.”
Mr. Krupka said the heartfelt nature with which the artists approached their art was conveyed. He felt their intentions, and thought it delivered a message sorely needed in our times.
“Their love for what they are doing is very relevant. They stay with the mission—I think it is very beautiful,” he said. “It’s a performance, but it is the culture that you are bringing to us, and that’s been a blessing just in and of itself, is just to bring the culture of the past, that’s been lost, to us, in this present. We need this.”
“I think we need it. I know that we need it. Our culture is, today’s society is getting all lost in too many things, and there’s too many things going on that,” he said.Mr. Krupka thought that through Shen Yun, the artists brought “back a reminder that someone’s watching over us and wants the best for us.”