MONTREAL, Que.—Shen Yun Performing Arts once again impressed the audience who came to the Place des Arts at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on April 11.
Jean-Pierre Chausse and his wife Martine Vicaire appreciated the energy and grace of the dancers, as well as portrayals of kindness in the performance.
Ms. Vicaire agreed that the traditional virtues of goodness and kindness are good for society.
“I think it’s great. ... I think that people everywhere are great,” she said. “It is one of my values. So, yes, being kind to each other, yes.”
Ms. Vicaire, a consultant webmaster, said: “I also like the color, the energy, and everything. I love the grace of the girls, and the boys are really energetic, so I like it a lot.”
Watching Classical Chinese Dance evoked deep feelings for Ms. Vicaire. “It brings out emotions, especially when they are enacting real situations, like the flying boy. It was like, ‘Oh, wow,’” she said.
The stories and beautiful costumes impressed Mr. Chausse. “I do love the [Water Sleeves] story. It seems it takes us to different regions of the country, and this is what I like. You can see also all the costumes. They have different colors and [styles that are different] from top to bottom.”
“It was quite amazing to see all the dancers [in Water Sleeves dance] catching back their sleeve and just throwing it away. It was amazing. I love it,” he said.
Shen Yun has a 3D animated backdrop that allows interaction with the dancers, which seems like magic, Mr. Chausse said. “Because when you go and see a movie of Chinese, it’s always really magic. ... People are just jumping, and they go in there, but then on the screen, you see them flying. So it’s really amazing for that.”
“I’m feeling like, ‘Hey, I’m in the movie myself,’ you know?” he said.
Ms. Vicaire agreed. “It’s like, especially with the screen and what they do with it, it’s great,” she said.
More than the beautiful dancing, Mr. Chausse was impressed with the spiritual power and energy that Shen Yun shares with the audience.
Jean and Sylvia Labelle, former owners of retirement homes, enjoyed the stories presented in dance, especially their message of tradition and hope.
Mrs. Labelle saw a future of goodness and beauty. They visited Shanghai and liked it.
Mr. LaBelle enjoyed the music of Shen Yun’s live orchestra and the singers who perform using the bel canto technique and sing in Mandarin. The lyrics are projected in a Western language on the backscreen. The lyrics tell of a beautiful future as the Creator is coming to save humanity. The finale presents the Creator saving the world from a tsunami.
“The orchestra was beautiful, and the singer was very nice,” he said.
Mr. Labell said, “Right now, what we see in the world, it’s scary. So we just hope that’s not going to be a big tsunami coming to hit us like that.”
“We don’t hope the world is going to finish like this. All the bad weather, it’s coming and we hope it’s not going to finish like this,” Mrs. Labelle said.
