SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Retired tech consultant Timothy Hoy and his wife, Nicolette, a retired insurance salesperson, had been wanting to see Shen Yun Performing Arts for the past six years. On Jan. 30, they finally made it happen at the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center—and the experience far exceeded their expectations.
“It was very, very heartfelt. I felt it so deeply … I think it’s so beautiful how it is presented. I would love to come and see this over and over and over again because it is that beautiful.” Mrs. Hoy said. “You can’t really describe how beautiful it is unless you come and you see.”
Today, the artists’ mission is to bring back the beauty and goodness of pre-communist China.
“The choreography between the background movie and the upfront [movement] was fantastic. The way they timed that and so forth. It was just a pleasure to watch,” he expressed.
“Whenever they did beautiful visuals that came out [with] lots of colors—when the background exploded outward in the very end, it was like ‘wow’… it was pretty amazing.”
Mrs. Hoy enjoyed every aspect of the performance and especially loved the dancers’ storyline performances that told legends from ancient times to the present day.
“It was just very, very breathtaking—how they danced, the colors, the costumes—everything about it was just beautiful,” she said. “The whole story is just very, very touching to me.”
Moreover, he appreciated how educational the performance was and gained valuable insights into Chinese culture that he might not have learned otherwise.
“When you see things like the Mongols—the dancers and stuff like that—I would never think of the Mongols [as] capable of doing dances like that based on what I’ve read about them and the history of what I’ve heard,” he said.
Summarizing her experience at the matinee and reflecting upon Shen Yun’s spiritual stories about good versus evil, Mrs. Hoy said the message she will be bringing home is that “what comes around goes around.”
“I believe that someday, everybody will be in heaven, and it will be so beautiful [with] no evil and no prejudice, no hurt—We all will be blessed and loved.”