BATON ROUGE, La.—The mayor of Baton Rouge came to see Shen Yun Performing Arts with his family and he was highly impressed with the experience.
“It was absolutely exhilarating. It was beautiful. Quite a performance. I just came away so impressed and so happy that my family and I got to experience this,” said Sid Edwards, mayor-president of Baton Rouge.
“Absolutely beautiful. Beautiful and gorgeous and pleasant to the eye for sure ... It was absolutely exhilarating. It was outstanding. Such talent,” said Mr. Edwards.
Shen Yun’s mission is to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, China before communism.
“It was very educational. How culturally different each area is—that’s what struck me ... I think it’s tremendous. I think it needs to be seen. It needs to be learned. And what a great educational venue for that to happen,” said the mayor.
“I’m a very spiritual man, so therefore, I really enjoyed that part and appreciated that part very much,” said Mr. Edwards.
Shen Yun’s digital backdrop is patented technology. The projection allows the dancers to enter and exit scenes while giving off the impression that the characters are flying through heaven or to the palace on the moon.
“My granddaughter was with me and just her asking a lot of questions: how did the people come to life? So I told her: magic,” he shared.
Mr. Edwards expressed that he had never heard the erhu before, but he thought the music was beautiful.
“I thought [the stories] melded together, and I liked the order in which they went in. Really good,” said Mr. Edwards.
“I would tell people you have to come experience this. You have to come to see it. It’s hard to describe,” he said.
He continued to say that Shen Yun isn’t just a spectacle but something to be felt as well.
