THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.—For over a decade, Shen Yun Performing Arts has been sharing the beauty of Chinese culture with the world, and sometimes it takes the right time for a person to decide that this year will be the year to see Shen Yun.
“It’s fantastic. I’m really shocked. It’s really fantastic. The dancing is unbelievable,” Mr. Baker said.
Shen Yun’s mission is to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, China before communism.
“[Shen Yun] makes me want to know more about the dancers and the dancing and the history of China,” Mr. Baker said.
“The stories are really great, the little individual stories are really fantastic, so it’s just wonderful,” Mr. Baker said.
“It’s wonderful to see the religion and the religious values that kind of permeate through dance. It was a big part of what they were singing and creating, and it was just phenomenal,” Mr. Baker shared.
“The music, it’s remarkable. And then you have a live orchestra and the colors and the history,” Mr. Baker said.
“We grew up learning about communism in China. We didn’t really learn that there was a whole free and very expressive Chinese culture. And it kind of makes me wonder what these Chinese dancers would say about what’s going on in this country,” Mr. Baker said.
He also saw parallels between what China went through and what America is experiencing today.Reporting by Michael Ye and Maria Han.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.