SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Business Owner Brings 20 to Experience Authentic Chinese Culture at Shen Yun

Feb 16, 2025

EL PASO, Texas—Business owner Edgar Galaz was happy to learn that Shen Yun Performing Arts would be making a stop at the border town of El Paso, Texas, during its 2025 tour, and told family and friends. Through word of mouth, he and his party of 20 made plans to see the performance together on Feb. 16 at The Plaza Theatre, where the audience sent the performing arts company off with a standing ovation after its last performance in town.

“It’s not common to have the culture here in the border city,” Mr. Galaz said. “So we’re very excited to have this kind of, to see the performance. We’re very excited.”

Formed in 2006, New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. Through music and dance, Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, sharing with audiences the beauty of China before communism.

“It’s perfectly well designed and the performance is excellent. Wow! Yes, we really enjoy it,” Mr. Galaz said.

Mr. Galaz was impressed with the production, and said everything about the performance had been enjoyable. He also found commonality with the ancient culture presented through Shen Yun.

Traditional Chinese culture is divinely inspired culture, rife with themes like good being rewarded and evil punished, and values like compassion, tolerance, or loyalty. Audience member often say these values are timeless ones needed anywhere in the world. Mr. Galaz thought similarly.

“I think the message is that everyone and every culture, it’s one. Every heart and every society, it gathers to be one,” he said.

“It’s a one world, one team, one performance, one’s everything. So everybody is connected to one. So it doesn’t matter if you have different cultures, how we look, how physically we are,” he said.

“But in reality, the main thing is that we’re one and that everybody constitutes in one. So everybody, even though different cultures, different names, different attributes, different arts, but everything is involved in one. So we are all connected.”

Reporting by Yeawen Hung and Catherine Yang.

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.