European Parliament Member Marvels at ‘Authentic China’
On March 16, Shen Yun Performing Arts brought 5,000 years of China’s heritage to the stage in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. A member of the European parliament was among the audience and was enchanted by the magnificence of China before communism.
“Beautiful show, magnificent, and also it’s very inspiring to recover this magnificent effort to really bring back the authentic China, the spiritual China, the China of a 5,000-year-old culture that has been brutally and criminally erased by a crude China, militarized, brutalized, which has brought out the worst in human beings, the greatest cruelty, and that’s the China that’s been presented to us for 70 years. But of course, people need to be reminded that there is a very different China,” said Hermann Tertsch, a member of the European parliament.
Shen Yun performances also shine a light on the brutal persecution of faith under the Chinese regime in modern day China. Because of this persecution, Shen Yun cannot perform in China.
“Congratulations and all my respect, deepest respect to Falun Gong, for all their work, for all their heroism, for this immense, colossal school of spirituality, that works despite all the monstrosities and difficulties. My regards to all the victims of the Chinese repression, of the forced organ transplants, in so many forms, of that infinite cruelty displayed by Chinese communism,” said Tertsch.
“I’m told there’s eight already, eight groups on stage all over the world, I wish there were eighty, and I hope soon there will be eight hundred, and I hope that, in the not too distant future, all this returns to China.”
Shen Yun travels with a live orchestra that combines both traditional Chinese instruments and Western instruments.
“Very good music, very different to what we hear around here. It has a lot of folk elements, very colorful elements, very visual, and even philosophical,” said Jesús Balandín Sánchez, a company director.
“For me, what I like the most is the music. Because we’re used to seeing a lot of shows, what I like the most is that the music is live, that it has the orchestra, which sometimes you don’t see enough of,” said Felipe García Suso, a theater maintenance technical director.
“I found the use of technology very entertaining, the connection between the screens and the artists suddenly disappearing from stage,” said Patricia Martín Orta, an interior designer.
Shen Yun will be performing in Füssen, Germany, from March 30 through April 6.
NTD News, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
NTD is a media sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts, covering audience reactions since 2006.
