SAN FRANCISCO—Watching Shen Yun Performing Arts was an eye-opening experience for Michael Sirek, a senior vice president of Union Bank, at the SHN Orpheum Theatre Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Sirek attended the sold-out performance with his wife, Diane Sirek, and said that watching Shen Yun demonstrates that “art brings us all together.”
“I really truly enjoyed it a lot,” Mr. Sirek said. “How they can be so precise, yet tell a story, and it can be very moving.”
Mrs. Sirek, who also works in banking, agreed and said she paid attention to the detail of the dancers.
“They are all doing their own dance, but they are also so synchronized amongst each other,” she said.
Mr. Sirek enjoyed the many stories New York-based Shen Yun told through classical Chinese dance, which was beautiful visually as well as educationally.
“I think we take things for granted here. We don’t understand other countries’ history and the culture,” he said. “So it’s just amazing—the color, the talent that people have.”
Mr. Sirek said as an example that in the Mongolian Bowl Dance, the “scenery and the background and the colors were so vibrant.”
“The colors, I think, to me it’s like going to Mexico and seeing their cultural dances. Just the colors. They are so bright and brilliant. It’s really amazing.”
“I don’t think people really realize, [or have an] appreciation for the Chinese civilization and just how far back it goes, and where we are today,” Mr. Sirek said. “So I think it’s just an appreciation of all that.”
Reporting by Chiawei Lin and Catherine Yang
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has three touring companies that perform simultaneously around the world. Shen Yun Performing Arts International Company is performing in San Francisco, at the SHN Orpheum Theatre, March 20-24. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org.
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