MISSISSAUGA, Ontario—Stephen Dasko, Mississauga City Councilor, congratulated Shen Yun Performing Arts on yet another successful run in Mississauga on March 25, after seeing a performance himself at the Living Arts Centre.

“You must come out and see it. It really is a spectacle to see,” he said.

Since its inception in 2006, Shen Yun has grown to eight companies that now tour the world simultaneously, each performing close to 100 shows per season.

“Eight hundred shows a year is truly amazing, right across the globe. It also shows that art [transcends] all boundaries, and really a lot can be learned just through art,” he said.

“It is very much something to see. A great experience,” he said. “Shen Yun, it really is quite something, and just the fact that it’s a new performance every year is also really quite something.”

“This is a tale that you can learn across the globe. And so art is always something that brings out, I think, the best in everybody,” he said.

“Very creative and very well done,” he said. “Having the story told through dance and through color, through music, especially with the backdrop, the animation, was quite something to see.”

“I am truly in awe of what the artistic director comes up with. And this is this year’s, let alone what the years before have brought. So keep up the incredible work and keep delivering just these magical performances,” he said. “I think everyone is just very talented, very well choreographed. It’s the work that goes into it, the practice that must have happened to bring off such an event is truly, it’s wonderful.”