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Famous for its twenty-one foot chandelier and Spanish-Baroque architecture, the Ohio Theatre is the state’s busiest performing arts facility because of its excellent acoustics and state-of-the-art stage facilities, which has made it a favorite for the world's top performers.
This was the first time Ms. Mitchell has seen a Shen Yun performance and she felt “It was stunning” and “very beautiful.
“The dancing especially I love, the costuming was very spectacular, and the music was lovely and exciting too.”
She particularly liked the dance where the women were all in unison, and also said, "The more tumbling part was very exciting, and the men with the drums, I really liked as well.”
Ms. Mitchell was enchanted by the beauty of all facets of the performance. “I think … for me it was just the beauty of it, the beauty of the music, the dance, and the costuming coming all together.”
Chinese classical dance has a unique heritage. It is part of the divinely-inspired heritage that is China’s five-millennia-old culture, and one means by which that culture lives on. It is the product of generations of dancers’ many years of artistic experience combined with their refining, reorganizing, and reworking of the art form.
Classical Chinese dance has its own complete set of training methods in foundational skills, a strict regimen for perfecting bearing and form, and means of training for skill sets such as jumps, turns, and flips, as well as extremely demanding aerial techniques, culminating in an enormous dance system.
Ms. Mitchell went on to say, “It is graceful, it is physical, but it is very refined and technically very … what’s the word I am looking for … precise.”
On hearing about Shen Yun coming to the Ohio Theatre, Ms. Mitchell was happy to work with the presenters and help promote the show.
Columbus, named after explorer Christopher Columbus, has earned its nickname "The Arch City" because of the dozens of arches that spanned High Street, now an illuminated thoroughfare.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information, please see DivinePerformingArts.org
