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Shen Yun ‘Worth Coming Back Time and Time Again’: Retired Food Executive

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Shen Yun ‘Worth Coming Back Time and Time Again’: Retired Food Executive
Stan and Dee Jeska enjoyed Shen Yun at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, on Feb. 2, 2025. Frank Xie/NTD

ATLANTA—Stan and Dee Jeska decided to celebrate their son’s birthday with a family outing and attended Shen Yun Performing Arts to witness 5,000s of Chinese civilization brought to life on stage.

“It’s beauty, it’s excellence, it’s all rolled up into one fantastic performance,” said Mr. Jeska, a retired chief development officer for several national fast food chains. The family attended the performance at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Feb. 2 and left in high spirits.

“It’s been such a wonderful time here. Everything was so beautiful in there. We’re really impressed. We’re going to tell all of our friends to come next year. ,” said Mrs. Jeska.

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company and has a mission to show audiences China before communism.

“The choreography, the, all the ambiance ... the moves are fantastic,” said Mr. Jeska, marveling at the tumbling techniques.

Classical Chinese dance, with a history of thousands of years, is one of the most comprehensive dance systems in the world. In addition to its expressive nature, making it highly suitable for storytelling, it also requires mastery of difficultleaps, flips, spins—tumbling techniques that have since made their way into modern sports like gymnastics and acrobatics.

“You wonder how a body can do that,” Mr. Jeska said. He quipped that he had turned to his wife and asked whether she could do such moves. “She said, I used to.”

“And the costumes are perfect, though. They really are. It’s colorful, it’s artistic. There’s so many things going for it that makes it unusual and worth coming back time and time again,” he said.
For millennia, Chinese people believed their culture was a gift from the heavens, divinely inspired, and Chinese civilization was a spiritual one.

This, in particular, moved Mrs. Jeska, who says God is a big part of her own life.

“I see the spiritualness of it, and it just thrills me when we bring God into our life. I can feel it, what they’re telling us and dancing and doing just touches my soul,” she said.

She said the performance included heavenly scenes and depictions of the Creator, which brought her joy.

“To see the beauty and to bring God and our Creator, we’re all of like mind and heart, and the love, the goodness of it,” she said.

Mr. Jeska said it was a shame Shen Yun could not freely express such a performance in China today, which is under communist rule.

“You have to ask yourself the question, why is that? Because there is nothing negative about it. It’s all positive. It comes from the heart. It comes from the soul. And you would think that would be embraced by everybody,” he said.

Reporting by Frank Xie and Catherine Yang.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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