CLEVELAND, Ohio—”It’s a beautiful production,” said Ronald Philips Bay, contractor and former martial artist, about the Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company’s performance at Cleveland’s State Theatre, Dec. 22. He said that the colors of the costumes and backdrops were beautiful.
“Wonderful. Very beautiful,” were Mr. Bay’s first words to depict the Shen Yun performance at intermission. “The dancing is magnificent,” he said.
The mission of Shen Yun Performing Arts is to revive divinely inspired traditional Chinese culture through classical Chinese dance and traditional ethnic and folk dance. In addition to dance, there is orchestral music, soloists, and interactive high technology backdrops.
Mr. Bay was impressed with the music and described the orchestra as “really nice and electrifying. It’s beautiful. It’s wonderful, wonderful.”
“Shen Yun’s one-of-a-kind orchestra, with its all-original compositions, blends East and West like no other. The distinctly Chinese sound of ancient instruments like the erhu and the pipa are bathed in a rich sea of Western strings, percussion, woodwinds, and brass. The result—two great classical music traditions producing one fresh, unexpected sound,” according to Shen Yun’s website.
Each year, Shen Yun has a new performance of dances, songs and musical scores and hundreds of gorgeous, hand-made garments spanning China’s dynasties, regions and ethnic groups.
Reporting Roman Balmakov and Cat Rooney.
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. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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