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Mr. Semedei, manager of a local television station, came to the Jacksonville Divine Performing Arts show with his friend, Ms. Whitman, account manager at a local business.
Both thought the show was “beautiful.”
Ms. Whitman said, “I loved it. It was very spectacular, beautiful; very moving. I loved the costumes, very colorful.”
“It was very dramatic, very beautiful. And peaceful,” Mr. Semedei said. “I’d love to come back again and bring my friends.”
Mr. Semedei said “Flowing Sleeves” was his favorite: “They were graceful, and the costumes were beautiful; they looked like silk.”
Ms. Whitman liked “Welcoming Spring.” “The story of the flowers, with the hot pink fans, was so pretty.”
They both agreed “The Monkey King” was funny. 
‘Colorful, exciting, intriguing’
Mr. Logsdon saw a newspaper advertisement for the Divine Performing Arts show in Jacksonville’s Times Union Performing Arts Center and decided to check it out. A regular theatergoer, Mr. Logsdon found the show, “precise, colorful, intriguing and exciting.”
Mr. Logdsdon, an Aviations Manager from Jacksonville, liked all the pieces with drums.
“Anything with the drums, he said. “The drums kind of get your heart beating.
“It’s good choreography,” he continued. “It’s all synchronized, it all had a lot of meaning …”
Hope and Beauty
Ms. Walker, a massage therapist and yoga instructor, loved the variety of the dance styles, from graceful to acrobatic to extremely energetic.
Ms. Walker also loved the drummers. “I’m interested in drumming myself, and the variety and the virtuosity of the drummers is wonderful. I’m really enjoying that. And then of course the more graceful dancing things I’ve enjoyed too. The pas de deux are wonderful and even I’m really surprised at the vocal presentations, the operatic stuff—it’s fabulous.”
She also loved the themes and the stories presented in the dances and the vocal songs’ lyrics 
“The one that the tenor did that it had to do with pain and suffering,” she explained. “It was interesting because it seems to be somewhat from a Buddhist perspective; and I’m a Buddhist. Pain and suffering is what we get; but, there is also this underlying hopefulness; just the beauty seems more hopeful than pain and suffering.
Ms. Walker saw an ad for the show in a local entertainment magazine, but only decided at the last minute to attend.
Had she planned to come, she might have brought friends.
I’m thinking of so many people that I wanted to bring with me, from my grandchildren to my friends, especially my Yoga teaching friends and I would love to, because of the diversity, especially the movement,” she said. “I’m always interested in dance things, I love modern dance … and stuff like that where people do unusual things with the human form, and this is a good example of that.”
