AUSTIN, Texas—A University of Texas at Austin scholar, who was honored for her mentoring, said she felt hope and optimism in a Shen Yun performance.
Award winning professor Dr. Martha Ovando saw the Shen Yun New York Company’s final show at the Long Center on Dec. 30. She described her response by saying, “The whole show gives you a feeling that good is coming, that although there are struggles on earth, heaven will help us, and there is spirituality in everything, so it gives you a feeling of hope.”
Dr. Ovando won the national Jay D. Scribner mentoring award in 2010 for making “substantial contributions to the field by mentoring the next generation of students into roles as university research professors, as well as supporting and advising junior faculty,” according to an announcement of the honor.
She was especially pleased by the flower dances, she said. The Flower Fairies and Lotus Leaves, they were all so beautiful.” She also singled out Snowflakes Welcoming Spring for praise. The program notes that this northeastern folk dance shows snowflakes gathering for a final farewell before warmer days.
“It’s wonderful, it really transports people to another culture, that’s wonderful,” said Dr. Ovado. In a 2010 program, the company says it “aims to capture the substance and spirit of premodern China’s classical culture.”
Reporting by Catherine Yang and Sophia Bronwen.
Shen Yun has three companies touring the world. Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company will next perform in San Francisco from Jan. 3 to Jan. 8.
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