SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Company Senior Director Impressed by Shen Yun’s ’Positive Message’

Mar 09, 2025

SYDNEY, Australia—Katherine Pfahl, senior director for strategic partnerships at event management company ENCORE, said the messages presented through Shen Yun were positive and uplifting.

“It’s positive, it’s uplifting ... There’s something in it for everybody, I think that’s the most important thing,” Ms. Pfahl said after watching Shen Yun’s matinee performance with her mother and children at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney on March 8.

“With all of the uncertainty that’s currently happening across the world, that theatre, art, music, drama, and story is timeless and classless, and it crosses cultures—that’s the most positive message that it’s bringing today.”

Shen Yun’s mission is to revive China’s 5,000-year-old culture and present live on stage a diversity of stories that showcase 5,000 years of authentic Chinese culture, from ancient myths and legends to modern-day events.

Each dance piece is choreographed precisely with Shen Yun’s world-class, classically trained dancers, a live orchestra that blends Eastern and Western instruments, and a patented state-of-the-art animated backdrop.

“I’m very overwhelmed by the amount of colour and the music, and how the Western orchestra and the Eastern instruments are blended together so beautifully,” Ms. Pfahl said.

“What I love most about this as well is the use of the technology; so the LED screen, the content on the screen, and how the real activity and action on the stage blend so beautifully with the technology—really fantastic,” she said.

Lawyer Appreciative of Shen Yun’s Spiritual Message

Eva Abdelmessiah (2nd L) attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on March 8, 2025. (Steve Xu/The Epoch Times) — Eva Abdelmessiah (2nd L) attends Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on March 8, 2025. Steve Xu/The Epoch Times

Eva Abdelmessiah, an immigration lawyer, said she resonated with the spiritual messages shown through Shen Yun, particularly with the final piece titled “The Creator Has Arrived.”

“The Creator created us for greater things. So regardless of whatever we’re going through now, there is hope, and God is coming again, and we will all be divine creatures again,” Ms. Abdelmessiah said after watching Shen Yun’s matinee performance at the Capitol Theatre on March 8.

In this piece, audience members are taken to modern-day China, where they see practitioners of Falun Dafa practicing their faith but then persecuted by communist authorities. In this faith-based vignette, the traditional belief that “Good is rewarded and evil is punished” is clearly presented.

“It’s touching in every way, touching in the meaning of persecution,” Ms. Abdelmessiah said of the persecution that is still occurring to Falun Dafa practitioners in China today, “but also touching in the meaning of redemption; that at the end, there’s freedom and there’s redemption in our Saviour, and there is hope.”

Having come from Sudan, where her Christian faith is also being persecuted, Ms. Abdelmessiah said she empathised with those who are being persecuted for their faith in communist China.

“At the end, the scene of the light indicates to everyone that in the darkness, we will see light, and we’ll see the truth.”

Reporting by NTD, Steve Xu, and Henry Jom.

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