“I think the colors and the dance—the color gets me. I’m an artist on the side, so the colors, the vibrancy of the colors just appealed to me. That’s what I really like about it,” he said.
“The costumes, the hair, the jewels in the hair. Every little detail is just beautiful and impeccable,” said Mrs. Doughty, a college professor.
Every scene in Shen Yun can be described as a work of art and Mr. Doughty saw how all of the colors complimented each other.
“I love how the contrast in the colors, the melancholy and the greens and the oranges and the bright yellows and contrasting with the blues in the skies. I think it’s beautiful,” he said.
The colors didn’t just provide visual satisfaction for the audience. Mrs. Doughty felt an energy from it as well.
“I think the vibrant colors provoke an energy. Just the whole thing, they add the energy. I feel the energy coming from the colors and the scenery,” he said.
“They’re so talented. Everything they do is just so precise and so beautiful. The discipline and the work it took to achieve what they’re doing up there is really amazing,” Mrs. Doughty said.
Shen Yun puts on an all-new production each season and the artists rehearse tirelessly in order to give the audience their best.
“Their facial expressions, the energy in the dance; you can just tell they enjoy what they’re doing,” Mr. Doughty said.
Their son, Caleb, is soon to graduate with a computer engineering degree.
“I thought it was really interesting. It’s really cool. It’s unlike anything I’ve seen before,” he said.
“We pray about that, we pray for China, we pray for the people there because we know there’s Christians there too along with the other groups as well. That’s something that we’re really concerned about,” Mr. Doughty said.
Although Shen Yun is sharing the beauty of Chinese culture with the world, Shen Yun is unable to perform in China.
“It makes you want to learn more about their culture and about all aspects of the history and the current state of what they have to deal with,” Mrs. Doughty said.
