SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Shen Yun ‘Reminds Us of Who We Really Are’: Educational Consultant

Mar 12, 2025

SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Shannon Fey felt the beauty and themes of Shen Yun Performing Arts were such that they took your breath away and brought tears to the eye.

“Oh, it’s breathtaking. It’s heavenly. There’re no words. And the messaging behind it, how we are all a spark of the divine and how they embody it,” said Ms. Fey, an educational consultant, after seeing Shen Yun with her sons at The Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater on March 11.

“It’s just absolutely breathtaking. Brings me to tears every time,” she said.

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s leading classical Chinese dance company. Through music and dance, Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, sharing with audiences the beauty of China before communism.

As a musician and lover of the performing arts, and a spiritual person herself, Ms. Fey was deeply moved by the performance, which she felt was a creation of love.

“It’s just mesmerizing. It really just grounds you. But yet reminds us of how connected we all are with each other,” Ms. Fey said.

The name “shen yun” translates into “the beauty of divine beings dancing,” and Ms. Fey felt the artists certainly embodied that, and created magic on earth.

“I just—I love it. There’s just no words. It just opens up my heart. I can just feel the energy,” she said.

“It’s magic. It’s like magic right here on earth. So, I highly recommend it to anybody, everybody, and anybody.”

Traditional Chinese culture is divinely inspired culture, and Ms. Fey felt the idea that humankind came from the divine and is meant to return rang true, and Shen Yun brought people a reminder of it.

“It just opens us up. It reminds us, I feel like it reminds us to pull the partitions back and reminds us of who we really are. And we are just beautiful, divine, light embodied. And we all chose to be here right now, believe it or not. So it’s pretty special,” she said.

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.