BOSTON—The audience at the Boch Center’s Wang Theatre delighted in the all-new performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts on April 4.
“It was nice to see some singing and instrumentals mixed in,” he said.
“It was like, it had a lot of feelings,” she said, as the soloist played at different tempos. She moved with the music as the soloist played “slow, and then she got kind of fast.”
“Because she was a virtuoso on that instrument,” Mr. Frisoli said.
Shen Yun’s animated backdrop becomes part of the performance as dancers jump in and out to fly through various dimensions and realms. Mr. Frisoli said he liked this in the dances.
“I didn’t know how they were going to incorporate the screen, you know, jumping into the screen,” he said.
Many of the dances stood out and touched the couple.
“I like the one where he pulled the moon in. ... They’re all good,” he said.
“I like the narration, too,” Mr. Frisoli said. “Like, I didn’t know it would be included, how they explained everything in English and Chinese before each act. I thought that helped.”
“I thought, I don’t know much about the culture, so I feel like I can’t speak how it is then or now. But I just thought it was really beautiful how the dancing and how they tried to incorporate the values system that they have,” Ms. Krajewski said.
“And there was one where the monk was being enlightened. He was being enlightened and he wasn’t tempted and he kept pushing away the temptation and in the end he was rewarded for that,” he added.
Mr. Frisoli said, “I did like that. I like, too, when they put the English of the songs up on the screen, and you can see how they talk about atheism [and evolution].”
The couple liked that the songs want humanity to go back to God. Buddhism and other spiritual practices are suppressed and persecuted in China.
“That’s scary,” he said.
Indian Theatergoer Feels Connection With Chinese Culture
“The sets were amazing. The scenery was so beautiful. All the old traditional Chinese architecture, and the rivers and the heavens. It was just beautiful,” she said.
“I’ve traveled a lot to China. ... So I relate to what I’m seeing here. I think it’s a really nice depiction of the ancient traditions,” she said. “I think it’s beautiful and it should have a place in Chinese culture.”
The final scene with its connection to the divine impressed Ms. Sinha.
“It felt beautiful,” she said.
