Maggie Reister is a financial advisor with West Point Financial Group in Crown Point Indiana. She’s also a community theatre actor-singer and sings with the North West Indiana Symphony Chorus.

Reister attended Shen Yun Performing Arts’ evening performance at the Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University on March 6, 2020.

“It’s seamless. It’s just a total experience, from start to finish, the singers, the performers, the dancing was exquisite. Just beautifully told stories, athleticism and it’s very touching—very exciting,” said Reister.

There were a couple things that really caught her attention within the dancing. Reister explained, “The high heel shoes with no heels were interesting. How were they doing that!? It looked like they had cups on their feet or something, so that was exciting.”

She later elaborated that what stood out to her more than anything was the simply the storytelling aspect of the dancing. She was impressed by the dancers’ athleticism and the fluidity of their movements “flowing and fluid were the words that come to mind, it was just beautiful, charming, and exciting,” she said.

“I liked the stories,” Reister continued. “Some of them were sad. Some of them were just beautiful and happier. At least [they] had happy endings. And, very funny, great comedy—really great comedy.”

Reister felt the overall coordination of the program was outstanding. “It was perfectly—perfectly seamless is the word that comes to mind, it’s just perfectly flowing and seamless and it didn’t miss a beat,” she said.

After the finale, she was left feeling uplifted and inspired.

“It’s an experience, it’s unlike anything you have seen before,” she said.