BALTIMORE—Roberta Sola, a project manager, attended Shen Yun Performing Arts’ matinee performance at The Hippodrome Theatre on March 16 with her husband and mother-in-law. Ms. Sola said that she and her husband had purchased the tickets as a Christmas present for her mother-in-law, who had “very much wanted to see the show.”
“I thought it was visually very beautiful,” Ms. Sola said. “The nature of Chinese dance is very graceful and elegant, so it was very lovely and relaxing to watch.”
“Why would you not be practicing your traditional dance and celebrating your heritage and ethnic background,” Ms. Sola asked before adding that the life of the Chinese people before communism “looked beautiful and very in tune with nature and their spirituality.”
“So if that doesn’t exist today, what it was before was really beautiful,” she said.
“The acrobatics are amazing,” she said. “The athleticism of the dancers is really impressive. I think I gravitate more towards the women’s traditional dance because the costumes are so beautiful and it’s just kind of fantasy.”