Richard Davis, chief engineer at Northrop Grumman, a company that supports NASA’s space exploration, said after the evening performance on Feb. 1, 2020, that it was “very moving, it was very uplifting” and that he was leaving with “a sense of awareness. A sense of wonder, and a sense of peace.”
Shen Yun is not a typical Chinese show, in fact, no one has seen anything like it in China today. The New York-based company has never been allowed to send a company to the Mainland because of what you might call a culture clash.
Davis, who said he had seen a performance many years ago, felt that this time he was leaving better able “to understand hope, and mercy and [a] sort of resurrection.”
He said saw a theme of overcoming adversity in the performance and felt it connected with his life. The performance also reminded him “to have a sense of joy,” he said.
Other audience members, Robert Wilhelm and his wife Kimberly (both certified personal accountants) who saw the performance, said the spiritual values were very universal.
Why Shen Yun Can’t Perform in China
The Shen Yun website explains why it cannot perform in China:Some of the narrative dance pieces in Shen Yun are set in modernity and expose the persecution of practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Dafa.
Mr. Wilhelm said he really sees Shen Yun as part of the battle of good and evil in the world.
“I just hope—if it’s a battle—this wins out,” he said referring to the goodness portrayed in the performance.
“[There’s] got to be a victor and a defeated, as far as I’m concerned, because some of the stuff out there is just antithetical to what we’re trying to ... what we all should be striving for,” he explained.
