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Shen Yun Is a Deep Impactful Spiritual Awakening, Says Teacher

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Shen Yun Is a Deep Impactful Spiritual Awakening, Says Teacher
Vasili Horin attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Venice Performing Arts Center, on March 11, 2023. (Nancy Ma/The Epoch Times)

VENICE, Florida—Vasili Horin, a teacher, did not have to see Shen Yun Performing Art’s entire performance to determine its worth.

“I think it’s really good,” said Mr. Horin, sitting in the Venice Performing Arts Center on March 11 during the intermission and eagerly waiting for the performance’s second half to begin. “A lot of different choreography has taken place, and it looks really nice. A lot of skill.”

Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 and is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Its mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture, which is deeply rooted in spiritual teachings that were abolished when the atheist Chinese Communist Party took power.

“I was actually surprised to see how much spirituality is put into it,” admitted Mr. Horin. “I see the message to be One with our Creator, one with our world, one with ourselves.”

Shen Yun’s opening program depicts divine beings following the Creator down to Earth and establishing Chinese civilization. Elaborating on his interpretation of the message he saw in Shen Yun, Mr. Horin said, “We are always struggling to balance between the positive and the negative, and that’s a big part of the Chinese tradition—yin [and] yang—and we tend to overlook that nowadays and [be] with what’s comfortable, [but] what’s comfortable isn’t always what’s good.”
As an educator, Mr. Horin praised Shen Yun’s educational value.
“I think it’s great because it’s what’s missing in the world right now, where we are struggling with finding peace and balance. [Shen Yun] has a message and symbolism that shows that.”
“I think this generation and future generations that continue are lost, and this is a way for them to find themselves back to where they need to be.”
Mr. Horin approved of Shen Yun’s revival of traditional values, which he believed were being lost.

“Integrity, love, harmony with everything,” said Mr. Horin, listing some of the disappearing values. “It’s taking place now in the world—we are losing it—they are no longer available to us [and are] being taken away from us.”

Shen Yun also aims to show its audiences China before communism.

“I don’t think it’s just communism; I think it’s [also] socialism,” Mr. Horin observed. “I think any form of government that wants to strip away people’s rights are stripping away our unity.”

Summarizing the performance, Mr. Horin said that Shen Yun was a “deep impactful spiritual awakening and in some cases a warning and a message.”

Reporting by Nancy Ma and Wandi Zhu.

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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