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Holistic Therapist Feels Shen Yun’s Energy

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Holistic Therapist Feels Shen Yun’s Energy
James Caldwell and Billin Liu attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Palace Theatre on Jan. 18, 2025. The Epoch Times

MANCHESTER, UK—Shen Yun Performing Arts thrilled the audience at the Palace Theatre on Jan. 18. John Caldwell, who works for Amazon, and Billin Liu, a holistic therapist, loved the performance.

“The show is absolutely wonderful. We’ve seen it before, and we'll see it again,” Mr. Caldwell said. “It’s elegant, beautiful!”

Ms. Liu said, “It’s beautiful, spectacular, and epic.”

Mr. Caldwell praised the talent of the dancers. “Wonderful. Very skilled,” he said. He went to laud Shen Yun’s artistic director. “Whoever directed the show is fantastic.”

Ms. Liu said she belongs to the Hakka ethnic minority in China and appreciated Shen Yun’s performance of Chinese culture before communism.

“We love to travel, we love culture, and we’re all into culture and history. So, this is a really good show.”

Ms. Liu also resonated with China as a divine culture. “I’ve been quite a spiritual person. ... So, all the enlightenment and all of that interests me. I love the music as well,” she said.

She described the energy she experienced as “peaceful. I do a lot of Taoist chanting. I’m all into meditation.”

Both Mr. Caldwell and Ms. Liu said they would see Shen Yun again.

Software Engineer Felt Shen Yun’s Strong Life Force

David Sumpter attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Palace Theatre on Jan. 18, 2025. (NTD)
David Sumpter attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Palace Theatre on Jan. 18, 2025. NTD
David Sumpter, a senior software engineer, gave his enthusiastic impression of the performance.

“I’m very exhilarated by it. I love dancing. I’m not familiar with this dance form, but I enjoyed it greatly. It was very, very exciting, and graceful, and athletic. So, yes. I’m impressed,” he said.

Although Mr. Sumpter was familiar with the story of the Monkey King, he was surprised by the story after the opening curtain of God creating Chinese culture.

“I was just not sure what my expectations were. So I was hoping for some historical narrative.”

But he commented on the energy of the performance. “It’s very, very strong. Lots of life force,” he said.

Shen Yun’s live orchestra accompanies the performers on stage and has both Western and Eastern instruments playing together. “It’s really good classical Chinese music.”

Shen Yun’s mission is to revive 5,000 years of authentic, traditional Chinese culture before communism. Shen Yun is banned in China.

Mr. Sumpter said: “I think it’s right and proper because I think the Chinese is the longest running civilization, to preserve that as a continuous stream of culture is very important. The current Chinese government’s narrative shouldn’t exclude the previous thousands of years of culture. That’s a shame.”

He said he would describe his experience to friends as “very enjoyable and very exhilarating.”

Shen Yun Performing Arts is now touring its all-new 2025 production to over 200 cities across five continents, and this proves to be its most engaging ever.
Reporting by NTD,  Mary Man, 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.
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