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Ms. Brockhoff’s mother is Chinese, and seeing the New York-based company’s performance was a wonderful chance to get to know a lot more about her ancestry.
“I was born in Australia and Shen Yun is just a perfect thing for it,” Ms. Brockhoff said.
She attended the world's premier classical Chinese dance and music company performance on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, March 6, at the stately Regent Theatre, the final Melbourne performance for this season.
Popular tenor Guimin Guan sang an encore to calls for more, and the artists graciously bowed and waved goodbye through two curtain calls, all the while an enthusiastic audience clapped and cheered.
“It was really an incredible performance. Such an amazing experience, theatre at its perfection,” Ms. Brockhoff said.
Shen Yun is a presentation of traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and the virtues distilled from the five millennia of Chinese civilization.
Gorgeous costumes are designed to move with a dancers movements and in colours that perfectly match hi-tech animated backdrops, complemented by a full orchestral ensemble of Chinese and Western instruments, and world-acclaimed vocalists with piano accompaniment.
“So many talented dancers, the costuming, the choreography—just amazing. I just couldn't believe it. I'm speechless,” she said.
Ms. Brockhoff said she would tell her family and friends about Shen Yun, saying, “It's a once in a lifetime [experience]. You have to see it, it's just incredible.”
Reporting by NTD Television and Raiatea Tahana-Reese.
Shen Yun Performing Arts International Company will perform in Canberra on March 9 before continuing its 2011 World Tour in Taiwan. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
