SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Shen Yun an Event of a Life Time, Says Distillery Owner

Jan 22, 2020

1/22/2020Updated: 7/19/2020

LONDON, U.K.—Covering the breadth and depth of 5,000 years of an ancient culture in two hours is no easy feat, but through a universal language, Shen Yun Performing Arts does just that.

In the audience for the Shen Yun performance at the Eventim Apollo in London on Jan. 22, were Michael McKeown, the owner of a distillery, with his wife Carmel.

Mr. McKeown felt it was an event of a lifetime, and full of surprises. Far from being just ancient history, he said it was a performance that included many moments of humor, and used technology that he'd never seen before in a backdrop: It bridged the artists on stage with the heavenly scenes on the screen.

“It’s just what I needed today,” Mrs. McKeown added. “So pure, so just so heavenly. It’s so beautiful and so delicate, and the movements are so, it’s just wonderful.”

“I’m floating already,” Mrs. McKeown said.

At the back of the theater sat the Kemps with a friend, and the group said that even from the far end of the auditorium, they didn’t lose any of the energy the artists conveyed.

“It reached us tremendously,” said Robert Kemp, who owns a marina on the South Coast. He attended with his wife Barbara, and their friend Louise Clarkson.

“The color and the sound was absolutely amazing. Really, a great visual spectacle. Superb to see and I recommend anyone to see it,” he said.

Robert and Barbara Kemp and Louise Clarkson enjoyed Shen Yun at the Eventim Apollo, in London, on Jan. 22, 2020. (Mary Man/The Epoch Times) — Robert and Barbara Kemp and Louise Clarkson enjoyed Shen Yun at the Eventim Apollo, in London, on Jan. 22, 2020. Mary Man/The Epoch Times

“I think culturally it’s very much an eye-opener for people who don’t know anything about the Chinese culture. I think it’s very historic, and it kind of gives you a grounding in the different cultures that are still, I think, maybe not so well known in the West,” Clarkson said.

With reporting by NTD Television.

The Epoch Times considers Shen Yun Performing Arts the significant cultural event of our time and has covered audience reactions since the company’s inception in 2006.