‘We ate and drank colour and beauty all afternoon,’ Mayor Says of Shen Yun

It is incredible to imagine that during 5,000 years, these traditions were maintained and that today they are expressed through colour, through movements, through music, songs, through texts.

Mayor Denis Lapointe attended Shen Yun Performing Arts, on Sunday, and was so impressed that he intends telling others 'You must go see this'. Nathalie Dieul/The Epoch Times

MONTREAL—Mayor Denis Lapointe attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at Place des Arts on Sunday afternoon and was convinced that the premier classical Chinese dance company was succeeding in its mission to revive one of the world’s oldest cultures.

“It is extraordinary,” said Mr. Lapointe of Sallaberry-de-Valleyfield, a town with a population of 40,000 southwest of Montreal.

Mr. Lapointe said that from looking at the advertisement posters he had imagined what the colours in the show might be in real life, but was still taken aback when presented with the actual colours, lighting, and dancing of Shen Yun.