NEW YORK—CEO and chairman of Quest Magazine Chris Meigher enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts for the third time on Thursday night. It was the opening performance for the New York-based company’s second stint at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center this year.
The company has brought its spectacle of Chinese classical dance and traditional music far and wide to the best theaters in the world. It has returned for a special weekend of performances incorporating all of the old favorites, giving Mr. Meigher a second taste of some Shen Yun classics and a novel experience viewing pieces he had never seen before.
“I’ve seen it three times,“ said Mr. Meigher. ”It is very good. I think it is terrific! Very spiritual and very moving.”
“I find it to be uplifting,“ he remarked. ”It teaches me about the culture I didn’t know.”
Mr. Meigher explained that Quest Magazine had featured Shen Yun in an article, examining its mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese culture.
“I have been to China many times, [but Shen Yun] reminds me of the China we forgot about,” he commented.
“I just think [what was forgotten is] a lot of the cultural traditions and some of the preforming arts that are not seen anymore in China,” he added.
Shen Yun Performing Arts is banned in China, as are many expressions of ancient and traditional Chinese culture in the modern communist state.
The company’s website says “In order to restore and revive Chinese traditional culture, a group of overseas Chinese artists established Shen Yun in New York in 2006.”
Reporting by Sherry Dong and Tara MacIsaac
Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company will perform at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in New York City, June 23-26. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
