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“Beautiful!" she said of the performance. "It's a performance that literally represents China as it once was … and as it would like to be for all of those who probably cannot go there anymore. It's a dream."
Based in New York, Shen Yun’s exhilarating and colorful extravaganza brings to the stage gorgeously attired artists, hi-tech animated backdrops scenes, a full orchestral blend of Chinese and Western instruments, a trio of award-winning vocalists and solo musicians.
Ms. Kmetova-Stajlova liked the dream-like connection conveyed by the artists.
“The dream expressed physically with lovely moves that was a really splendid expression on a high level. And then the scenery, which was combined by animation with the dream and the connection with the higher power—the Heavenly Gate—that's amazing.
“I think a lot of people feel this. I could see Chinese people sitting next to me, who were crying. So I asked them, whether they even had been to China, and they said they had.”
Everything about the performance she found was amazing.
“I really found the musical instruments interesting, then the characteristic movements, different from the ones a European has, the gracefulness, harmony, and delicacy.
“The orchestra is amazing. I had the impression there were Europeans too, not only Chinese, and yet they could feel the music! It’s probably a matter of the inner meaning [of the music].”
She said she was aware of the ongoing persecution in China of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, shown in the performance as a portrayal of outstanding courage in the face of adversity, and good triumphing over evil.
"For people who know little about this, here is a presentation of it, and I know that when the Treaty about Hong Kong expired, lots of Chinese left for Canada and the USA.”
Reporting by Petr Svab and Raiatea Tahana-Reese.
Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company was performed over two days, May 7 and 8, in Slovakia. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
