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“I have seen Shen Yun for four years. From the first year to today, and every year my feelings have been the same—it has been consistently good,” said Ms. Huang, a New York resident, after attending the Feb. 13 Shen Yun Performing Arts show at the Radio City Music Hall in Midtown Manhattan.
Saturday afternoon’s show is the first of seven shows the New York-based Shen Yun Touring Company will hold at the iconic art deco venue in New York. Shen Yun Performing Arts presents traditional Chinese performing arts featuring world-class performers, stunning costumes and backdrops, and drum rhythms.
Since Shen Yun is based in New York, Ms. Huang feels that New Yorkers owe it to themselves to see this show. “I feel very fortunate to have seen Shen Yun for four years. Its roots are in New York, so I feel as a New Yorker here, we are a very fortunate community,” she commented.
Ms. Huang reserved high praise to the accompanying orchestra. “The live orchestra is a behind-the-scenes hero. I felt as if the music was like a waterfall, and the coordination was excellent in all respects.”
She was so enthusiastic that she urged everyone to promote the show.
Saturday was the Eve of the Lunar New Year, a day where people of Asian descent call their loved ones to wish them a happy and fortuitous new year. “Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and I think this is the best gift for the New Year,” Ms. Huang said. “I am very happy having seen the show, especially this year.”
“Because we have this predestined opportunity to come here to receive this baptism of culture so I believe that everyone will feel this year is very auspicious.”
She added, “I am already waiting for next year’s show.”
Additional reporting by Joshua Philipp.
Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company opened its first show of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Shen Yun will perform at Radio City Music Hall in New York the weekends of Feb. 13-14 and Feb. 20-21.
For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
