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Shen Yun Brings Georgia Couple Beautiful Spiritual Message

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Shen Yun Brings Georgia Couple Beautiful Spiritual Message
Patty and Tom Haight enjoyed Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Johnny Mercer Theatre at Savannah Civic Center on March 12, 2025. Sherry Dong/The Epoch Times
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Tom and Patty Haight saw Shen Yun Performing Arts for the first time on March 12, and felt uplifted by the message they saw within the beauty.

“It was beautiful,” said Mr. Haight, a retired systems engineer.

“It was beautiful, very beautiful,” said Mrs. Haight after seeing the performance at the Johnny Mercer Theatre at Savannah Civic Center. “It was just awe-inspiring.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. Through music and dance, Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, sharing with audiences the beauty of China before communism.

“The costumes and the precisions were just amazing,” Mrs. Haight said. “Just the beauty of it, and the message, the message was beautiful.”

The Haights said they gleaned a spiritual message from the performance. Traditional Chinese culture is indeed a spiritual one, as the Chinese believe their culture is a gift from the heavens.

“Very spiritual. It was beautiful,” Mrs. Haight said.

Mr. Haight said he saw multiple parallels to his own Judeo-Christian culture, such as “different examples of people doing good deeds, and justice triumphing.”

Through classical Chinese dance, Shen Yun tells stories spanning five millennia, from the creation legend of Chinese civilization, where the divine Creator calls on divine beings to descend with him to the human world, to historical episodes, legends, folk tales, and the classics.
Mrs. Haight said good and evil were shown in stark contrast, and in these stories, good prevailed.

“It’s like when you do good at the end, that’s where everybody kind of ascends to heaven,” Mr. Haight added. “Good triumphs over evil and everybody has erased kind of the original sin and so forth.”

In terms of the artistry of the production, the performers had been “just unbelievable,” Mrs. Haight said.

“It’s very unique. Very unique,” she added. “Like pure beauty.”

Mr. Haight said between the movement and the color, the production came together beautifully.

“The coordination, the colors, and so on. And the dancing was primo. It was excellent,” Mr. Haight said.

Reporting by Sherry Dong and Catherine Yang.
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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