CANBERRA, Australia—Shelley, a feng shui practitioner and events coordinator, knew immediately that she was going to experience something special when the curtains opened on Shen Yun’s first evening performance in Australia at the Canberra Theatre, Sunday, March 29.
She paused for several seconds, took a breath, and said, “You’re struck, your senses are just struck. From the moment the curtain opens, then it really does take you on a journey, a total sensory journey.”
Shelley said it was difficult to articulate her experience of the show, because there was so much beauty to take in. “But I’m not just speaking visual beauty. There was just so much beauty. And it goes beyond a deeper message, it comes to leave you a bit speechless, because it takes you inward, it takes you on a journey inward.
“The colors, the performers, the sets, it was all a perfect balance. It flowed, it told a story, and it flowed from start to end. It was beautiful,” she said.
Shelley said that Shen Yun’s depiction of Chinese culture was as she imagined, and as she would like to see it: “It was pretty much as I knew it, but it was also sad to see that that’s not how—except for performances like this—that’s not how it is anymore.”
Shelley said she had enjoyed the different stories told throughout the performance, particularly the story of Mulan [Mulan Joins the Battle].
“It was nothing like the Disney version. It was just the portrayal, the way she was portrayed was factual, and not just fantasy—although this is theatrical, there was actuality more about it,” she said.
She would tell people to see the show, as the experience could not be conveyed in words: “It’s an experience, it’s not something that you can try and tell somebody and show them a program. Go see it. It’s something that you need to see for yourself, because it’s just exquisite. That’s what it is, it’s just exquisite.”
Concluding, she said she would describe it as “poetry in motion.”
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
She paused for several seconds, took a breath, and said, “You’re struck, your senses are just struck. From the moment the curtain opens, then it really does take you on a journey, a total sensory journey.”
Shelley said it was difficult to articulate her experience of the show, because there was so much beauty to take in. “But I’m not just speaking visual beauty. There was just so much beauty. And it goes beyond a deeper message, it comes to leave you a bit speechless, because it takes you inward, it takes you on a journey inward.
“The colors, the performers, the sets, it was all a perfect balance. It flowed, it told a story, and it flowed from start to end. It was beautiful,” she said.
Shelley said that Shen Yun’s depiction of Chinese culture was as she imagined, and as she would like to see it: “It was pretty much as I knew it, but it was also sad to see that that’s not how—except for performances like this—that’s not how it is anymore.”
Shelley said she had enjoyed the different stories told throughout the performance, particularly the story of Mulan [Mulan Joins the Battle].
“It was nothing like the Disney version. It was just the portrayal, the way she was portrayed was factual, and not just fantasy—although this is theatrical, there was actuality more about it,” she said.
She would tell people to see the show, as the experience could not be conveyed in words: “It’s an experience, it’s not something that you can try and tell somebody and show them a program. Go see it. It’s something that you need to see for yourself, because it’s just exquisite. That’s what it is, it’s just exquisite.”
Concluding, she said she would describe it as “poetry in motion.”
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
