OGDEN, Utah—“I just hope it comes again soon to Utah,” said Ms. Morley, referring to the Shen Yun Performing Arts performance at the Val A. Browning Center for Performing Arts on the evening of March 12.
Ms. Morley attended the performance located on the Weber State University Ogden campus with her father, Pat Morley. He bought the tickets because of his daughter’s love of Chinese and Japanese culture.
“It is well worth it,” Mr. Morley said. “Excellent”
“It was absolutely wonderful,” said Ms. Morley, a student. “I don’t know how to express it. It was amazing. I don’t know what else to say. It was beautiful.
Mr. Morley, an aviation director of aeronautics for the state of Utah, concurred: “It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful.”
“Shen Yun draws top artists from around the world. With a passion for the classical arts, they join Shen Yun in its mission to revive a culture that was once almost lost,” states the Shen Yun website.
The traditional culture of China was almost completely lost due to the last 60 year rule of the communist regime in China, particularly during the Cultural Revolution.
From ancient times to the present, Shen Yun displays 5,000 years of divinely inspired culture through classical Chinese dance, an orchestra combining two great traditions with Western and Eastern instruments, colorful costumes and digital backdrops, and opera-style vocal soloists.
Mr. Morley said he “liked all of the Shen Yun performance and the color, music, dancers, precision, and the exactness. It was fabulous!”
No one dance stood out for him as “all of them were wonderful, loved them all.” As an introduction of the traditional culture it “was very well done.”
Excellent is the term Mr. Morley often used for Shen Yun: “Excellent. The color, choreography, and the discipline that everyone had of being precise was excellent.”
“It touched us,” said Mr. Morley about the dance performance called called Divine Mercy. It tells a story of good versus evil in today’s China as it presents the communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice. Falun Gong practices the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.
“We recognize that there is a cultural challenge ... all societies have. We have it here in America too,” Mr. Morley explains. “We hope that at some time the world will all mature and recognize that there is good and evil and that good will prevail over evil.”
Both father and daughter recommend Shen Yun. “I will tell them that next year you have got to come and see this,” Mr. Morley said.
“Definitely, the same thing,” Ms. Morley said.
Reporting by Youzhi Ma and Cat Rooney.
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has three touring companies that perform simultaneously around the world. Shen Yun Performing Arts International Company is scheduled to perform at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, March 15–17. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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