ESCONDIDO, Calif.—Jenny Maeda, Poway City Councilmember, presented Shen Yun artists a proclamation congratulating the group on their mission and accomplishments while attending the performance on March 19 at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido.
“It was just absolutely delightful. It’s just a masterpiece,” Ms. Maeda said. “They’re great at storytelling, and I really enjoyed how they combined the technological digital stuff with the ancient arts and music and dance.”
“It was a huge masterpiece and a feast for the eyes and the ears,” she said.
“It was pretty amazing,” she said. “They’re very expressive and just very purposeful, and the choreography was great.”
“I just want to say that while I grew up in a city where I was the only Asian family and so I missed out on a lot of this, the cultural heritage and experiencing what my ancestors had, and so I’m really thankful that they preserve this for us and that I’m able to kind of catch up now,” she said.
“It was just very a hopeful message, very positive, uplifting,” she said, adding this had to do with the connection between heaven and humanity woven throughout the culture and stories.
“It was just a focus on how we are created in divine beings,” she said. “We are very purposefully designed and I agree with that, and it’s important because then you value yourself and others more.”
You realize “there’s a greater power than yourself and you realize how small humans are and that there’s something bigger than yourself and to just not focus on yourself and your petty problems,” but rather “the beauty, the power, from the inspiration,” she said.
