ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Ellie Jones had wanted to see Shen Yun Performing Arts since it first began, and that long-awaited wish came true on March 14, when she and her husband Teddy celebrated her birthday by attending a performance at the Stifel Theatre.
“I’ve been waiting since the show first began from the very beginning, so many, many years, to come. And my husband surprised me with the tickets. And I was very very pleased. It was fabulous,” said Mrs. Jones, an art teacher at an elementary school and someone who has always done art, music, and dance.
“I enjoyed all of it,” Mr. Jones said, and even more so because it made his wife so happy.
“I love a lot of their values and traditions. I think they’re very, very important,” she said. “They are showing just the peace and kindness, and being able to have the harmony and things is a lot of importance that they’re showing as well.”
“I think anytime you can show positivity and kindness, every little bit can make a difference,” she said.
“I liked how they showed that trying to just rise above, and the kindness, and just trying to show that continually trying to better their country through the balance of the arts and using that to bring out better in people in their society,” Mrs. Jones said.
