“The second half passed so quickly it didn’t seem like an hour,” he said.
“It was great,” said Mrs. Mason.
She said she appreciated Shen Yun’s two emcees who introduced each dance.
“The brief descriptions were so fantastic, that helped to understand,” she said.
Mrs. Mason said she enjoyed how the dances captures scenes from different areas of China and how those dances were enhanced by Shen Yun’s digitally projected backdrop.
“I liked the mixing of the dancing with actually the film production behind, so the movements of the dances into the air ... was really interesting,” she said.
“A number of them had the dancers moving towards the back, and then moving right up into the air, with it moving through the film, so that connection of the two, and the music with it, was just great,” she said.
The dances cover a wide range of topics and eras, a fact that Mr. Mason enjoyed.
“There were moments where they injected humour into it, wasn’t hard to follow the story at all,” he said.
Mrs. Mason said she also enjoyed the dancers’ colourful costumes.
“Fantastic. I just keep saying fantastic. I love the colours, I was really impressed by the different hand and foot movement, and I was fascinated by how the costumes moved around the bodies, both for the men and the women.”
She said the dancers displayed “fantastic flexibility and training.”
“They must have trained from a very, very early age,” she said.
With reporting by Sonia Wu.
Shen Yun Performing Arts has three equally large companies touring the world. Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company will next travel to New York to perform at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center from Apr. 18 to Apr. 22.
For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org.
