LAKELAND, Fla.—Robert Armstrong, a real estate business owner, found Shen Yun Performing Arts to be as educational as it was enjoyable.
“I loved it,” he said at the Youkey Theatre on Jan. 15. “Really, really excellent. Especially the synchronization of everything was beautiful. Everybody was on point. I really loved it. And the interpretations were really, really good. And I learned a lot today.”
“History and traditions—it should not be lost. It’s a shame that that may be happening right now over in China,” Mr. Armstrong said.
Each and every one of the vignettes showed Mr. Armstrong something new, he said, and he found two stories that depicted spiritual enlightenment and divine intervention particularly memorable.
“Each individual one will definitely, you know, it brought something to me, so I'll take away something from that,” he said.
Mr. Armstrong enjoyed seeing that Shen Yun embraced the spiritual aspects of the culture and felt it brought hope.
“You can just see that in the whole theme of things that, in the end, good overrides evil,” he said. “And so if you can keep that faith and you can keep that hope that in the end, that’s what’s going to happen. Then it may, if you think about it, then you’re enlightened and then maybe it changes your life in a more positive path.”
