“The show is fantastic. It’s poetry in motion. That sounds like a cliché, but it truly is.”
“It’s just a pageantry of colors. It’s so coordinated, you can think of watching a flock of fish that are all moving in unison and all perfectly timed, but with a great degree of individualism as well.”
“I particularly liked the comments on China, of how this [program] would be suppressed in China.”
“I also liked the focus on the divine, in the sense—as in the name Shen Yun—[of] the divinity within each individual and how we have forgotten that. It was a good reminder.”
“It’s moving beauty, human poetry in motion to reiterate that phrase. That’s how I would describe this.”
“The people have forgotten in their urban, secular ways the divinity within, and that needs to be refocused on again. It’s a good reminder of that.”