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TAIPEI, Taiwan—Attending the second last Divine Performing Arts (DPA) show in Taipei on Sunday evening, March 1, was Mr. Guo, a Taipei bank manager. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Cheng, and their young daughter. Mr. Guo thought DPA was both unique and exquisite.
“This show has been coming to Taiwan for three years, but this is the first time we’ve seen it. I think this performance is different from other performances that come to Taiwan. It’s extremely special, extremely beautiful, not the kind of thing you usually see, that’s for sure.
“With what we usually see in Taiwan, that kind of Eastern dance, it’s quite different. My feeling is that this is really quite traditional, it’s completely Eastern in the dance. I also think it’s extremely elegant and beautiful. Their costumes, too, are extremely glamorous. Their movements are also very exquisite, very minute, and detailed.
“So, I just think it’s very beautiful, it’s very soothing, and very joyful.
“It [The Udumbara’s Bloom] was really harmonious, it was so much like a flower opening. On the top there was a flower, and that flower … it had three petals. And those petals, the performers became the three groups to represent the petals, and the way they were dancing, they were petals opening. It was very delicate, and this is the harmony I speak of,” he said.
Mr. Guo thought the singers were very accomplished, and that all the costumes were very colorful and bright. “Actually, the whole thing was just very good,” he said.
Mrs. Chen also had some thoughts about the dance: “Their foundation in dancing really had a traditional Chinese feeling about it. I also appreciated the traditional stories, like where they went to the West to retrieve the scripture [The Monkey King Triumphs], using dance to express that. I thought that was really good.”
Mrs. Chen said she was also moved by the dance showing persecution in China.
The couple insisted that their attire was too casual to be suitable for a photograph.
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