TOULOUSE, France—Shen Yun Performing Arts set out to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, and for audience member Jean-François Dallet, it was as if he was transported entirely to another world.
“Amazing!” Mr. Dallet said with a gasp, visibly moved, describing the experience after a performance at the Zénith on Jan. 12.
“I'd never seen such choreography, such harmony between videos, music, and dances,” said the physician, who practices in Pamiers, a small town between Toulouse and Foix.
“I believe that what [Shen Yun] have brought through this culture should enable all those who have attended this show not to be satisfied solely with the artistic part, but with the reflective and interiorizing part,” said Mr. Dallet. “I’m leaving here conquered by this show. I think it’s rare and must be seen.”
“The world is too chaotic to do without Shen Yun,” Mr. Dallet said.
For Gérard Navarro, Shen Yun “is refinement, elegance, spirituality!”
This accountant, who works in the aeronautics sector, experienced “a feeling of surrender, well-being, and happiness” when he attended Shen Yun on Saturday afternoon. “We’re already a little bit up in Heaven with the artists.”
Believing that it is “important, in this modern world, to keep our traditions,” Mr. Navarro said that Shen Yun “points to the roots of eternal China.”
“Everyone should follow the Shen Yun show and appropriate the values it conveys. Beautiful human values of spirituality and love! That’s important these days, I think,” he said.
Michel Ferran is a retired musician. He gave Shen Yun to his wife for Christmas, because for him it’s “a very nice show”.
“These must be young talents, nothing but talents. They’re the best! May they continue in this vein, whether it’s the dancers and musicians, the choreographers,“ he said. ”I say bravo!”
Gilles Descamps says he’s torn between two types of feeling: “It’s both soothing and has moments when you see these young people bursting with energy, they’re pouring it out into the crowd and bathing everyone in it,” said Mr. Descamps, a territorial engineer with the Tarn departmental council.
“It’s a magnificent show, full of life and youth! It’s both soothing and harmonious, with bursts of energy from time to time... Fireworks to either titillate us or wake us up, or give us new impetus,” Mr. Descamps said.
“Because when you’ve never seen it, you don’t realize what you’ve denied yourself,” he added, urging others to see it for themselves.
“It’s a soothing afternoon, full of love. So you’ve got to come, you’ve got to make the most of this afternoon to share all the energy that these young people bring,” he said.
