DALLAS—Chinese civilization, with its 5,000 years of history, has a far-reaching effect on human civilization and can spark connections with people of different backgrounds. Such connection was exactly what Saritha and Hari Singam experienced during the Shen Yun performance at the Eisemann Center on Jan. 3.
Shen Yun Performing Arts is the premier classical Chinese dance and music company based in New York. Since its inception in 2006, the company has been touring around the world presenting the beauty and goodness of China before communism. Through dance and music, the Shen Yun artists are reviving traditional Chinese culture which was destroyed by the Chinese communist regime.
Hari Singam, owner of an IT consulting firm, was amazed by the “seamless connection between the graphical display and the show [stage].” He said, “It’s as if it is happening right there.”
Saritha Singam, a senior software developer, was very much impressed by the performance. She said, “It’s really good, a visual feast. All the dancers are in sync, the music, I can really feel the culture, the real Chinese culture.”
With an Indian background, Mr. and Mrs. Singam saw in Shen Yun’s presentation a divine Chinese culture and it resonated with the spirituality of their traditional culture. Mrs. Singam said that she could feel the spiritual side of the dance and that “dance is connected to spirituality, it can increase your spiritual inner being … being one with the universe, that can be attained through dance.”
Through Shen Yun, Mr. Singam saw “nature, connecting with the nature, living with the nature. That’s what is shown here, and we have to preserve the culture.”
They both liked the story dance of the village boy and the fairy. Mr. Singam said, “It’s a fantastic story about an innocent boy getting married to a divine girl. It’s something special, like a fairy tale.”
“We really connected with that kind of story,” said Mrs. Singam.
The concept of divinely inspired culture also seemed to be universal. Mrs. Singam was happy to see the dance depicting “how heavenly beings came to earth and how they taught us how to live and how you can go back to heaven.” She added, “Heaven means liberation, free from all kinds of desires, greed. … We [in Indian culture] also have the concept of God coming to earth from some other places.”
Reporting by Sherry Dong and Sophia Fang.
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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