LOS ANGELES—Sometimes we may look at the world and see things in decline, but then find some new light of hope and restoration. Craig Huxley, film producer, musician, and inventor of instruments extraordinaire, had just that sense when he saw Shen Yun Performing Arts on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 14, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with his daughter, Fiona.
“I was very pleased to see the positive message of the show, and how there was the beauty of the dancers, the colors, and the appreciation of the ancient wisdom,” Mr. Huxley said.
With the goal of reviving China’s traditional culture, New York-based Shen Yun has sent three companies across the globe, showing people the beauty and virtues of the world’s oldest, continuous civilization.
Shen Yun is doing this through the medium of classical Chinese dance, an art form passed down and perfected across dynasties and millennia in the land known as the “Celestial Empire.”
Mr. Huxley is interested in preserving the resources of our planet. He is the owner and producer for GoPlanet, which creates documentaries, many about saving wildlife, such as tigers, gorillas, and whales. “I produce these movies that have a positive message about appreciating our wildlife and saving them too,” he said.
“We’ve created all these videos to have a positive message, and probably in the whole word we need that, and certainly in America. We need more love between father and daughter, and more appreciation for the wildlife and the oceans, between different countries, we need appreciation of the ancient wisdom of Daoism and Buddhism.”
The Music of Shen Yun
In addition to his career in the film industry, Mr. Huxley also has a music career.
But he has also developed new instruments, such as the Blaster Beam, which was used in Star Trek 1, 2, and 3, as well as many hit Michael Jackson songs.
So he knows something about music and instruments.
“I love interesting, new, different sounds,” he said. “What [they’ve] shown here, is combining the two, the traditional instruments, and I thought that was very cool, very interesting.”
