MURCIA, Spain—Shen Yun Performing Arts is receiving a warm welcome in Spain, and several elected officials have already attended performances, giving rave reviews.
“Well, the show was wonderful. The explosion of colors, the delicacy of the movements, together with the opportunity we had to learn about Chinese traditions,” said María Eugenia Sánchez Pérez, member of the Regional Assembly of the Vox Parliamentary Group in Murcia.
“Because the truth is that it was a spectacle that left us all amazed and almost with our hair standing on end, I could say,” she said.
“It’s a wonderful sight,” Ms. Sánchez Pérez said. “The explosion of colors is impressive. The sweetness of the movements and the delicacy and subtlety of the Chinese dance style have also impressed me.”
“The impression it has made on me is, above all, the importance of any tradition in any country and how important it is to maintain it and fight precisely against everything that prevents traditions and customs from being maintained,” she said. She found parallels to her own work and efforts to preserve traditions and customs, and added that Shen Yun accomplished this beautifully.
“And it is something that they have transmitted to us there on the stage, through dance to transmit the customs of a country like China,” she said. “To annul the culture of a country is also to annul its history and also to annul its people, its citizens.”
Antonio Martinez Pastor felt Shen Yun was a performance that could change an audience member’s energy.
“It is a beautiful show, very nice, a magical show, of light, of sound, of energy transmission, and the truth is that it is worth coming to see this show,” said Mr. Pastor, who is a member of Parliament and on the board of a number of medical groups.
“The transmission of energy is very important,” he added. “In fact, one leaves with a different spirit, different from the one that arrives before coming to the show. Very positive.”
“I think that it is good for us because it enriches everyone,” he said, adding that preserving traditional culture was always important. “An ancient culture like the Chinese, with so much knowledge and so much history, there are always things that can be used.”
Mr. Pastor said that any efforts to block Shen Yun, as the Chinese communist regime has been trying to do in many countries, should be met with skepticism.
“To prevent it from reaching the population, the truth is that it has no justification,” he said.
He said that for the Shen Yun artists, he had only “words of gratitude because they transmit energy, they transmit feelings, they transmit values. And I think that in the society in which we live that is important. It is very important.”
