FAIRFAX, Va.—Chris and Susan Kachouroff, each attorneys, loved Shen Yun Performing Arts on the eve of Chinese language New Yr, and noticed within the “China earlier than communism” offered by artwork one thing lovely.
“Completely wonderful efficiency—fantastic, moral, ethical. Lovely. It explains why magnificence issues,” mentioned Mr. Kachouroff on the George Mason College Heart for the Arts on Jan. 21.
“Why does magnificence matter? As a result of it’s a mirrored image of the Divine. And it’s what we should always emulate,” he mentioned.
“Shen Yun” interprets into “the great thing about divine beings dancing,” and New York-based Shen Yun takes as its mission to revive by the common languages of dance and music the 5,000 years of divinely impressed civilization that China as soon as had, earlier than communism.
“It’s what classical tradition does, whether or not it’s Chinese language or American, it takes the perfect that human beings create, and places it collectively,” Mr. Kachouroff mentioned.
For instance, he mentioned, Shen Yun’s orchestra took the perfect of a classical Western orchestra and blended it with the perfect of Chinese language devices. “They’re intertwining lovely issues,” he mentioned.
“The colourful colours, the fluidity of the dance, the comprehensiveness of the dance. And seeing for the primary time the place gymnastics comes from. It’s surprising revelation to see all of it put collectively the best way it ought to have been put collectively from, I don’t know, hundreds of years in the past,” he mentioned. “The colourful colours had been unbelievable. The dancers had been unimaginable as nicely. However for me, you recognize, probably the most poignant factor for me is the daring talking out towards atheism, evolution, and communism, indicted communism. And now I do know why they gained’t let [Shen Yun] in China.”
Shen Yun certainly can not carry out in China right this moment, because the ruling communist regime has spent its time in energy attempting to—typically violently—root out the normal tradition of China, which the Chinese language as soon as mentioned was handed down by the heavens.
Mr. Kachouroff mentioned that it’s seemingly the common American doesn’t perceive what “China earlier than communism” means, however communists will surely perceive it. “That’s the most important indictment,” he mentioned. He was impressed, too, that the portrayal of one thing as unfavorable as communism didn’t finish on a unfavorable notice.
“They tried to spotlight the unfavorable issues about communism, however then have a optimistic outlook for the longer term to concentrate on the divine and what’s heavenly,” he mentioned. “As a result of that’s what’s vital.”
Reporting by Terri Wu.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We’ve got lined audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
