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NEW YORK—Shen Yun Performing Arts’ best from a collection of classical Chinese dance, music and song programs presented over the past five years at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on Friday June 24.
The lively audience clapped and cheered during some dance pieces, song performances, and solo musicals, before ending the evening with a standing ovation and prolonged applause.
Human Rights champion, Jody Weiss, who owns a cosmetics company called PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics, understood Shen Yun’s mission to reawaken mankind’s divinely-inspired traditions kept alive in China over 5,000 years.
She was stunned by dance pieces depicting the Chinese communist regime’s ongoing persecution of Falun Gong, a meditation system banned almost 12 years ago to the day, July 20, 1999.
“The thing, by far, which knocked me over was the activism in this show. Oh my god, I never expected to see this! It was incredible to give voice to this,” Ms. Weiss said.
She resonated with the messages Shen Yun delivered adding; “I thought it was a really good show, real and honest—very refreshing.”
Ms. Weiss’ cosmetics business seeks to improve social issues globally by importing ingredients from developing nations, giving loans to farmers, and improving the status of women in such regions.
She said that it is “amazing” that such a performance which helps raise awareness of such issues was held at Lincoln Center.
“I think people should support indigenous cultures and preserve that and people should continue to raise awareness of repression.”
Shen Yun Performing Arts will perform three more shows at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, to June 26. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
