RALEIGH, N.C.—Ken McBride, a business consultant, and his wife watched Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Memorial Auditorium at Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 18. Mr. McBride shared that they had gotten the tickets long ago for his wife’s birthday.
“Incredible. Just incredible,” Mr. McBride said. “All the visuals, everything. I love the fact that the culture comes from the Divine, and they’re bringing that back.”
“I like the spiritual aspect of it, that their culture and the people came 5,000 years ago from the heavens,” Mr. McBride said. “It made me feel great.”
He added that he liked that Shen Yun’s name meant “the beauty of divine beings dancing,” and that he thought Shen Yun’s opening number, which depicted divine beings following the Creator down to Earth to establish Chinese civilization very cool. Mr. McBride said he enjoyed the story-based dances in Shen Yun’s program, too.
Mr. McBride urged others to also see the performance, and he said he felt like he was helping revive traditional Chinese culture just by being part of the audience.
“Come. Please come. I feel like I’m also giving a donation to help restore the Chinese culture. So it’s just not an event. I feel like I’m at a charitable event. It’s where we’re helping the Chinese to restore their culture.”
