“It was a beautiful evening,” said Nadia Potts, a former principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada who teaches dance at Ryerson University. Ms. Potts described the dancers in the show as “ardent, passionate, and beautifully rehearsed.”
“They do things with scarves and with fans and with drums, and I’m thinking: What next? And [then they use] shoes. And chopsticks. So it’s very impressive.”
Ms. Potts was invited to the show by friend Vanessa Harwood, another acclaimed former principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, who saw the Divine Performing Arts Chinese New Year Spectacular earlier this year.
Ms. Harwood said seeing the show a second time she’s “still taken away” by the Mongolian dances. She also described the two-stringed Chinese instrument erhu as “hauntingly beautiful.”
Thursday night’s was the second of six Mid-Autumn Spectacular shows performed by Divine Performing Arts. The run continues until Sunday.
