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Tech CEO Sees the Art of Shen Yun as ‘Praise of the Divinity’

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Tech CEO Sees the Art of Shen Yun as ‘Praise of the Divinity’
Nehemiah Harvard watched Shen Yun at the Columbia County Performing Arts Center in Augusta, Ga., on Jan. 8, 2025 NTD
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Nehemiah Harvard, a computer network architect and CEO of a cybersecurity technology firm, brought his son to see Shen Yun at the Columbia County Performing Arts Center on Jan. 8.

Mr. Harvard said that the performance inspired him to have his child become more engaged with the theater because experiencing the theater at an early age will help him develop an appreciation for art.

As the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company, Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to life a lost culture through beautiful art. Based in New York, Shen Yun’s eight companies tour around the world, presenting the purest and most authentic expression of traditional Chinese culture, and a vision of China before communism.

“It’s magnificent. I love it!” Mr. Harvard said that he was very interested in the music of Shen Yun and the orchestra, “I’m really into the orchestra, the music and the musicianship.” He said that the Shen Yun Orchestra can inspire his child to be more expressive.

Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by Chinese artists who fled religious persecution in China. Their mission is to revive and share China’s 5,000 years of divinely inspired culture with the world’s people. Even though Shen Yun can’t perform in today’s China, where the communist regime has spent decades trying to destroy the traditional culture, the spirituality of the performance resonates with people from different backgrounds.

Mr. Harvard spoke about Shen Yun’s “telling of the story of us coming down from the heavens to the earth and about the Creator. The sounds of the instruments, horns, violins, all of these create a unison.”

“I felt that we are one with the Creator,” Mr. Harvard said.

He also gained a new understanding of the purpose of art: “The dancing, the expression with the body, is a form of praise of the divinity.”

Reporting by Frank Xie and Sophia Fang.
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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