UNIVERSITY PARK, Ill.—Shen Yun Performing Arts brought the audience at the Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University new dimensions of understanding of Chinese culture.
“The performance is just outstanding. I mean, the colors and the dance and the stories, everything is so beautiful,” he said.
He got “just a little bit more education about traditional Chinese culture [and] the richness of all the different dance styles, clothing styles. All of that.”
As the curtain opens, the Creator comes from the heavens to gift culture to humanity. Mr. Collins thought New York-based Shen Yun enhanced his understanding that Chinese culture has deeply spiritual origins.
“I guess I’m not sure how to put it into words. It’s more about meditation and inner spirituality. I don’t really know how to describe it any better than that,” he said.
“That was something I never knew about. I was aware of reincarnation and that idea, but I wasn’t aware of the idea that everybody was originally in the heavens as gods and came down to earth to live. And then they'll return back to heaven. I didn’t know the details of all that,” Mr. Collins said of his new insights.
Mr. Collins said it was “painful” that people of spiritual beliefs are persecuted by the communist regime ruling modern China.
