HOUSTON—“We like it all! Great show, great costumes, great dancing!” Jim Spigener and his wife said after watching a Shen Yun performance at the Jones Hall for the Performing Arts on the evening of Dec. 26.
As a first-time Shen Yun audience member, Spigener was “amazed” by the digital projection backdrop, which creates seamless interaction between projection and performers on stage. A technology so innovative, the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has a patent on it.
“I like the animation. It’s amazing,” said Spigener, a senior vice president of the Dekra, the world’s largest inspection company.
Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company with the mission to revive and share China’s 5,000 years of traditional culture with the world.
Spigener appreciated this mission and realized the difference between traditional culture and the current culture in China. He said, “I like [the mission] a lot. I’m assuming it’s a push back on the communist Chinese [culture]. I like that.”
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power in China some 70 years ago, it has been destroying traditional Chinese culture and values, which are rooted in the spiritual teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
Through classical Chinese dance, Shen Yun shows the world “China before communism.” Spigener wishes to tell the Shen Yun artists to “keep doing the good work, keep being brave.”
