SALT LAKE CITY—Kay Christofferson, Utah State Representative, was happy to welcome Shen Yun Performing Arts to the state. He felt something positive from the performance and commented on how it could inspire people to do good for others in the world.
He commented on the creative stage production and variety and the “beautiful music” that had him “looking around for CDs” after the performance. “I love that music—it’s great, relaxing, and a lot of energy in it.”
He saw “culture and values, and family and other things that we all resonate with, things that bind us as civilization and things that are divine as well.”
“Here in Utah, we’re a faithful people here, and we have beliefs in the pre-existence and divine powers and God. And I think that it’s similar to some of our beliefs with faith—kindness, and charity.”
“I’ve heard about that a lot. And it’s a reality,” Rep. Christofferson said. “And this demonstration of the cruelty of that, it helps impress upon us how bad things can get and how we need to be vigilant, do what we can to help those people who are being persecuted.”
He felt it was very relevant for Americans.
“We can relate to that. It’s something that we’re aware of. It’s something we’re saying, ‘What can we do to help?’”
He added that Shen Yun helped people understand the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese people, were the instigators of such evil.
“[In] our world today, we’re looking at distractions and things that take us away from those things that are most important, and that’s why it is here, in Utah as well as other parts of the world,” he said. “We’ve got to pay attention to what things are most important. And realize that we can’t just think about ourselves and involve ourselves in things that don’t matter. We need to look outside of ourselves. Look at compassion, and kindness, and charity, and realize that we have an obligation to those around us as well.”Reporting by NTD.