DETROIT—”I loved it,” said Bridgette Albert about Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company performance at the Detroit Opera House on Jan. 27.
She loved being able to take her son to the Shen Yun performance: “I love taking kids to [cultural events] to engage them into it instead of trying to make them be engaged later on in life.”
Ms. Albert is a Chrysler employee and for seven years in college studied in a local dance studio and performed in dance, ballet, and tap with a specialty in African dance.
Shen Yun’s mission is to bring back traditional Chinese culture through storytelling of legends, myths and other historical events from ancient to modern times. Stories are told by classical Chinese, traditional folk and ethnic dances, orchestral music using East and West instruments, vocal soloists, colorful handmade costumes and digital backdrops.
“I liked it very much,” Ms. Albert’s son said.
Experiencing the traditional Chinese culture was very appealing to Ms. Albert: “It’s actually very nice to know different backgrounds, different cultures and how they dance, why they dance, and the different types of colors and costumes that they use.”
In reference to the dance that tells a story of good versus evil in today’s China—the Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice, Ms. Albert said, “I tried to do my own research and my own background about it. But, actually being engaged and actually seeing it for your own self is different than just reading it on line or in books.
Learning about other cultures she finds important particularly “to see what has happened in their past, to see what is going on in their present and what might happen in their future.”
Reporting by Madalina Hubert and Cat Rooney.
Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, tours the world on a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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