SYDNEY, Australia—Shen Yun Performing Arts concluded its Sydney leg of its global tour with a full house performance at the Capitol Theatre on March 9.
“My 90-year-old mother-in-law wanted to come for her birthday,” said Tania MacLeod, founder and director of The Stage Door Performing Arts–a prominent dance school in Sydney.
“So we have three generations here: my daughter and my mother, along with my sister-in-law.”
Tania MacLeod’s dance school has been operating for 30 years. Apart from being an entrepreneur, she is also a dance examiner with the Australian Teachers of Dancing, a professional body, for over a decade.
“Themes of love, themes of happiness, being aware of other people, spirituality. The more we give, the more we get back. And just appreciating the gratitude of the wonderful world that we live in,” she said.
At the same time, Tania MacLeod praised Shen Yun for its positive influence on the audience.
“I really think that it has the potential to touch lives in a positive way—to bring out the positivity that we should share with others and to reflect on the people that we are and ensure that we are living our best lives, but also giving back so that we can reach our full actual self-actualisation,” she said.
“[It] was very perfect. Everyone was in time and it was incredible,” she said.
“All the dancers show that when they are dancing, and even if you did not know the storyline, you could tell it through the expression and the dancing,” she said.
She also appreciated seeing each dancer “enjoying the show themselves, and as a team, see[ing] the relationships between everyone and building each other up throughout the dance.”
