“I’m grateful for their sacrifice and for their commitment to their beautiful craft and for sharing the potential of healing and forgiveness and inspiration and divine harmony with the world,” said Ms. Plettner after seeing the performance at the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center on Feb. 1.
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, its name translating as “the beauty of divine beings dancing.”
The artists’ mission is to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization—China before communism—and share it with the world.
“I felt more than goosebumps several times during the show, a lot of energy running through me. It was really beautiful,” she said.
“It was really beautiful, felt really powerful, loving energy just come in and through and out of my body,” she said. “‘The beauty of divine beings dancing’—I think it’s the spirit.”
“Shen Yun is about bringing the divine into our bodies and sharing the energy collectively with others, not just the collaborators, the dancers, but then also the audience.”
“I’m very, very inspired by the people in China who continue to practice their divine, sacred, spiritual religion and philosophy,” Ms. Plettner said.
“It’s like they are the flame. They are the flame sharing the light, keeping the flame alive for the, for other beings on earth to reunite with the divine and the sacred and so I also felt really inspired by the dancers,” she said.
“And I think it’s time that we’ve got to find the courage to remember that we are one, to embrace unity consciousness, and to return to the sacred and the divine within,” she said.
“I feel really touched and moved by what they’re holding on to and what they continue to share with the world and what continues to grow inside of them; you know, resiliency and courage to remember the divine within,” she said.
“Everybody here on earth is my family, and I haven’t had a chance really to connect with the Chinese culture really in my life right as of yet, but today I feel like I crossed that bridge.”
It so moved her that as she was walking out of the theater, she thought back to a moment in one of the dance stories set in modern-day China, Ms. Plettner said.
“I think it’s really powerful. Now I’m walking out, part of the energy that moved through me through that scene of persecution, I had a memory of another life being in that situation. So that emerged during the show, which was really powerful. I teared up. It made me cry,” she said.
“I think humanity will be saved, and our consciousness will elevate, and we'll ascend into a different way of connecting and relating to each other where we will remember unity consciousness,” she said. “I think it’s kind of imperative for this beautiful art and the spirit inside of it to be shared with the world.”
