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Dance Teacher Celebrates 8th Year of Watching Shen Yun

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Dance Teacher Celebrates 8th Year of Watching Shen Yun
Dance teacher Nadia Arambula enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts at San Diego Civic Theatre in San Diego on April 12, 2025. Linda Jiang/The Epoch Times
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SAN DIEGO—Nadia Arambula, founder and owner of Ballet Folklorico San Diego Dance Company, said she’s been coming to Shen Yun Performing Arts every year since 2018, and she once again enjoyed the performance at San Diego Civic Theatre on Saturday.

Ms. Arambula said she teaches Mexican folk dance, and she feels very motivated by Shen Yun to push herself and her students to increase their skills to a higher level.

“Every year I come,” she said. “[I] go back to my company and teach all this, what I see in the dancers, try to [raise] the standards on the work that I do and really motivate them to increase their performance and their presentation, especially in their posture. It’s so inspiring.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company and has a mission of reviving 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture.
Chinese classical dance was refined through thousands of years of dynastic history, passed down among the people in the imperial courts and through ancient plays. It contains unique physical expressions and postures, as well as leaps, flips, spins, and other challenging tumbling techniques that may look similar to gymnastics and acrobatics, but originated within Chinese dance.

Ms. Arambula said she admires the dancers’ “grace that they transmit during the dance” while performing “very complicated exercises and movements.”

“But they make them look easy,” she said. “I think that’s the beauty of the art, right? Making something complicated look easy.”

She said she hopes to study Shen Yun artists’ training techniques further and teach similar exercises to her own students.

Ms. Arambula also said she felt a spiritual message from the performance about connecting and reconnecting with the Creator and treating others with compassion.

“We can do great things and be kind with other people and just love each other, because we are created from a supreme power. I love it,” she said.

Shen Yun performances touch on Buddhist, Taoist, and other cultural traditions, including contemporary stories about spiritual persecution in China. Shen Yun’s artists themselves practice Falun Dafa, a mind-body meditative practice that teaches the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

“I wish everybody [could] watch this show, because it really reminds us [of] the importance of being kind with people and sharing love,” Ms. Arambula said. “The way we give, we receive love, kindness. It’s kind of contagious.”

She congratulated the performers for their inspiration, both spiritually and through their dance artistry.

“Please continue doing that. Never get tired of doing that, because it’s a great inspiration,” she said.

Reporting by Linda Jiang and Sarah Le.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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