Shen Yun Performing Arts graced the stage for its second performance at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall. Audience members described their emotions after watching the performance.
Wilt Pyle, a former company owner, said, “It’s just incredible choreography, you know, the synchronization, the jumping over the wall, and synchronizing to the screen. … I’m just blown away by it. It was just awesome.”
“I had tears in my eyes within 30 seconds of the first performance. It was stunningly beautiful, aesthetic,” said Tom Davis, an accountant. “I knew it would be beautiful, and I knew it would be wonderful, but I was absolutely floored to see it.”
“There was a little bit of touch of God, you know, whatever God that is,” said Pyle. “I think a lot of people gave up hope, now they’ve got it back a little bit.”
Shen Yun’s mission is to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture and showcase traditional Chinese dance and music.
Laurian Cuffy, the CEO and founder of CulturalVIBINg Media, said, “We looked at 5,000 years of influence, and how dance, and the backstories of the traditions, how that impacted moving up all the way to the pre-communism years. So I thought it was very, very insightful, the whole dance. It’s interesting that you guys revamp this annually because I’m sure, there’s more and more different aspects of it that you bring in over the years.”
Shen Yun blends elements of art and spirituality, which some theatergoers describe as Divine.
Davis said, “Taking spiritual values and spiritual understanding and communicating that through such beauty and aesthetics as you do, with the music and the performances … is just lovely to see. Art is so important to a civilization, without art and without artists to communicate and to forward ideas and values and virtues into the environment, we would be lost.”
“I think the Divinity and the inner peace, it comes about through various art forms,” Cuffy said. “You see something visually, all the color, the beauty, the movements, all of that came together, to touch your inner soul and to inform your humanity.”
“Having seen it, I can’t imagine missing it next year when it comes with another performance,” said Davis.
Shen Yun will be in Atlanta, Georgia, until Dec. 27 and will be opening shows in Houston, Texas, Austin, Texas, and San Jose, California, on Dec. 26.
