SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—On the opening night of Shen Yun Performing Arts in Puerto Rico for the 2025 season, Eddie Charbonier Chinea, member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, was in attendance with his family and said he was honored to be able to welcome the beautiful performance to the island of Puerto Rico.
“A very beautiful event ... where the values, the principles, the
history are presented, and in a very beautiful way, that everyone can understand the communication of what the ideas and the history are,” Mr. Charbonier said after seeing the performance at the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A Ferré on Feb. 7.
“It’s really very beautiful, I mean it, everything, the music, the choreography, everything, very beautiful,” he said.
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, with a mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization through music and dance.
“I think it’s very good that historical situations cannot be erased,” Mr. Charbonier said, expressing support for the young people he saw in Shen Yun who are committed to their
mission to revive the traditional Chinese culture “in projecting and presenting what history was, which nobody can erase.:
“Governments come and go, things change, but the truth is that history is there and they presented it in a very beautiful way,” he said.
He felt
Shen Yun presented something universal and indelible.
“There are situations where religion, culture, color, whatever, doesn’t matter. There are values that all human beings basically share, what love is, loyalty, principles, commitments. And that is part of what you see in the work, in the inner way, what the
musicis, the color,“ Mr. Charbonier said. ”They are things that all human beings, no matter where in the world they are located, share, and they are universal values.”
“I think the message is what the production wanted to project and what the show is, a bit of hope. That despite adversity there is always hope in the end, and I think they presented it as a good story well told,” he said.
“Good times, hard times, tough times, but it all culminates in hope, which is what everyone and every human being hopes for,” he said.
Reporting by NTD and Catherine Yang.
