Michelle Bryan, an entrepreneur who previously had a career in the performing arts as a musician and dancer, said that Shen Yun had conveyed much even with “no words, but the actual inspiration of being able to still feel what the message is, so that was amazing for me.”
“What it takes to be able to deliver the message to an audience with no words, to make sure to play music to make sure that it correlates together, for me it was very touching because I appreciate knowing all the hard work that goes behind it to deliver the message,” said Ms. Bryan.
Bassist Efrain Herrera said the entire production had been “like perfection.”
“Oh, it was beautiful. I really enjoyed everything,” Mr. Herrera said. “It was perfect. You could enjoy everything.”
“Always to be a good person, try to help people, and that’s the message,” he said. “And enjoy life.”
Through the performance, “people can realize, like, awakening, something like that. It’s something awakening about life, to do good in life.”
“Being a good person, good vibrations, faith,” he said. “We have to have faith in good things ... To be good, and enjoy life very much through your family, friends, and everything.”
Photographer Leslie Miller said watching the performance energized her and made her want to join the artists right up on stage.
“I think some of the dances, you could kind of feel the dance, like the sadness, the different emotions. And that was amazing,” she said.
It also gave her comfort, she added, and she could feel the compassion of the artists and the art.
“The colors even. I mean, the colors of it just make you feel compassionate,” she said.
Ms. Miller said that sitting in the audience of a performance, “you want to be a part of something. And that’s the way I feel with all the dancers.”
“Just the way they pull in the audience. I like that a lot,” she said.
