SHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS REVIEWS

Watching Shen Yun Like ‘Being Bathed in Some Purifying Energy’: DC Patron

Mar 02, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Eric Parris had seen Shen Yun Performing Arts before and attended again on March 3 at the Kennedy Center to enjoy the divine beauty.

“It was extremely well executed and very beautiful. And the graphic background and the dancers were so well integrated,” said Mr. Parris, a business owner.

“It was quite a striking balance of creativity. I felt that I was being bathed in some purifying energy.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. Through music and dance, Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, sharing with audiences the beauty of China before communism.

Traditional Chinese culture was said to be divinely inspired, and Mr. Parris felt the spirituality of culture contributed to the performance and how moving it was.

“It’s very powerful. The last performance was very moving,” he said, adding that a heavenly scene in the finale “was probably the best of them all.”

Many audience members who see Shen Yun once decide to see it again, knowing that each year’s performance is a new production.

On Shen Yun’s last day in the nation’s capital, James O’Beirne, a retired Army officer, was seeing Shen Yun for the third time, this time with his grandchildren.

“The technical expertise of the dancers is exquisite. It’s amazing that you can get a group of dancers to be so in unison with one another. It’s remarkably impressive,“ he said. ”It’s wonderful, it’s wonderful.”

“They are all supremely talented. And I also think the femininity of the female dancers is exquisite. Just the balance between the two dancers. There’s a symbiosis there that’s just remarkable,” he said.

Reporting by Weiyong Zhu and Catherine Yang.

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.