NEW YORK—Tickets for Shen Yun Performing Arts’ first Sunday performance this season at Lincoln Center had sold out early, leading to an addition of a second show the same day.
“The performance was amazing! Especially I truly love the costumes,” said Angelina Khristichenko, an executive. “. I always wanted to know about the Chinese culture, and it’s amazing that you did so much introduction about traditional dances, women and men both.”
Ms. Khristichenko emphasized that the experience was amazing and added that Shen Yun is “making this world more beautiful, and I am honored to see the show.”
“I have to be honest here, I was brought to emotion during the show,” said Mr. Burger. “I don’t know what it was about the movements ... it brings out emotion.”
“It was wonderful,” he said. “I’m glad I saw it after all these years.”
Mr. Bluth said he felt the emotionality of what the artists conveyed.
“The dancers were very expansive and lovely, and mostly the messages were very emotionally stimulating,” he said.
“The message that it conveyed was very heartfelt in terms of: we’re all on this planet together, we’re all trying to mature in a particular way together—there was a lot of emphasis on caring for one another.”
Andrew Blustein, a lawyer, said the performance showed a different China from today’s, one he didn’t realize existed.
“There was spirituality before communism. I didn’t realize that,“ he said. ”Very inspirational to know that people still keep their culture going for all these years even though they’ve been suppressed.”“The expression of the body and the athleticism was very inspirational,” he said. “They’re trying to communicate a passion in life.”
Alan Miller, a retired lawyer, said Shen Yun was just “a wonderful time.”
“I love this show,” he said. “This is a world of magic.”
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