SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Friends Says Shen Yun Is a Spiritual Experience

Apr 19, 2025

4/19/2025Updated: 4/20/2025

CHARLESTON, S.C.—Shen Yun Performing Arts gave a performance at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center that the audience loved on April 19.

Friends Paulette Lewis, a retired nurse, and Noela Sharo, a realtor, felt Chinese culture come home to them.

When asked if she liked the performance, Ms. Lewis said, “I certainly did. I enjoyed it. It was beautiful. The messages were heartwarming. And the color of the costumes was awesome. In fact, I kind of wrote down some of the combined colors, so I'll be putting colors together using what I saw.”

Ms. Lewis thought it was also a very spiritual experience. “I saw things about salvation,” Ms. Lewis said. “What people need to pursue: salvation, a relationship with a higher being.”

For her, watching Shen Yun was an experience of redemption and salvation, much the same as depicted in the dances.

“I feel the same way because I am Christian and I have a relationship with Jesus, who is the foundation. And I saw it in this production,” she said.

The friends shared that they both have Chinese ancestry and have a special appreciation for Chinese culture.

Ms. Sharo said, “The movement, the dance choreography, the orchestra, everything was amazing. We have Chinese blood. She’s a quarter Chinese, I’m a quarter Chinese. So it educated us because we’re really not aware of the Chinese culture.”

“I’m originally from Jamaica, West Indies, in the Caribbean,” Ms. Lewis said. “And my grandfather was full Chinese.”

“But we just appreciate our Chinese culture, which we’re not aware of. So it was very educational.” Ms. Sharo said.

Ms. Sharo said Shen Yun “was mesmerizing. The music was so awesome. The colors of the costume, magnificent.”

She also enjoyed the colors and the state-of-the-art animated backdrop, an audience favorite.

Shen Yun has a live orchestra and original music and lyrics that have a positive effect on many in the audience.

“The music was therapeutic. Yes, healing,” Ms. Lewis said. “It made you feel relaxed. It takes you to another world.”

Ms. Sharo also said she felt “very relaxed—where the fairies are.”

The friends are active in their church choir and appreciated Shen Yun’s singers, who performed in Mandarin using the traditional bel canto technique. Ms. Lewis sings soprano and expressed that the singing was “beautiful.”

Ms. Sharo could feel the positive energy from the performance. “It was perfect, yes,” she said.

“I’m looking forward to coming back next year,” Ms. Lewis said. “I wish I had my granddaughter and my three great-grands here,” she said.

Reporting by Yeawen Hung and Yvonne Marcotte.

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