HAMILTON, Canada—Paul Miller, the New Democrat MPP representing Hamilton East—Stoney Creek in the provincial legislature, ran out of words to describe his experience of Shen Yun Performing Arts after seeing the show at Hamilton Place Theatre, on Tuesday.
“The dancing is superb. Very good,” said Mr. Miller, elected in 2007 and currently a critic for several portfolios for the NDP.
“This is my third time to see the show. I saw it in Toronto and in Hamilton twice.”
“It’s beautiful to watch, it makes you feel good.”
New York-based Shen Yun has three companies that tour the world each year on a mission to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture rooted in values such as benevolence, courage, propriety, filial piety, and reverence for the divine.
“It teaches a lot about Chinese culture,” said Mr. Miller. “It’s very beautiful.”
He said he enjoyed the flips and tumbling techniques of classical Chinese dance, highly technical movements that were later adopted into gymnastics and acrobatics.
“The dancers are very versatile.”
Mr. Miller also appreciated Shen Yun’s digital backdrops, animated projections that provide diverse settings for the dancers and vocal soloists.
“The scenes are really excellent and I always enjoy it when I come to watch it,” said Mr. Miller.
“They are spectacular and they certainly use a broad spectrum of different types of colours for different scenes and it melds with the dancers and the background.”
“It’s a little close to my heart because my middle daughter, who is not with me here tonight but she was here last year, she spent some time in Taiwan in the north of Taipei.”
