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Theater Director Says Shen Yun ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Experience, ‘Highest’ Quality

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Theater Director Says Shen Yun ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Experience, ‘Highest’ Quality
Macarena López, director of Espacio Cartuja Center CITE, watched Shen Yun on March 8, 2023. NTD
SEVILLA, Spain—Macarena López, director of Espacio Cartuja Center CITE—the theater that hosted Shen Yun Performing Arts in Sevilla, Spain—said she was transported to a world of “sublime beauty” after watching the performance on March 8.

“The quality, I tell you, is excellent,” Mrs. López said.

“What we have here today from the dancers is a show of the highest category. I tell you, the orchestra, the sound it has, is something magical.”

As a theater director, Mrs. López is well attuned to the hard work and detail required by performers to successfully pull off a live performance.

But for Shen Yun performers, the hard work and detail went deeper.

“That is what attracts my attention the most—the capacity they have to transmit through their movement, their music, their expressiveness, it is an experience,” Mrs. López said.

“Here in Sevilla we had never lived it, and I tell you, it is a precious experience.”

Shen Yun dancers are trained in classical Chinese dance—an art form as ancient as the Chinese culture itself. Through the dancers’ movements, which includes the “yun” or inner bearing of an individual, the personalities and feelings of characters are portrayed with unparalleled clarity.

“It attracts you,” Mrs. López said. “It is an explosion of light, color, which is a wonderful experience.”

“There is a moment when it seems that you’re like you’re in a daze—and it’s peace, serenity—and at the end it transports you to another moment and another world.”

Having received international acclaim by many famous and influential figures, Shen Yun manages to continually captivate audience members the world over with new storylines and performances each year, according to the company’s website.

Yet its mission, which is to revive China’s traditional culture—a culture that was almost lost under communist rule—remains the same.

“[Shen Yun] brings some very important cultural values to society,” Mrs. López said. “Otherwise they wouldn’t have been known.”

Such values include traditional virtues such as faith, loyalty, filial piety, morality, compassion—values that are still relevant today.

“It is a different, unique, special show—and a show that leaves its mark,” Mrs. López said. “It is an experience that I think you have to live once in a lifetime.”

Reporting by Maya Marinova and Henry Jom.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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