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Business Founder In Love with Shen Yun
Diana Nunez is inspired by Shen Yun Performing Arts at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. (Alec Wang/The Epoch Times)
NEW YORK—Diana Nunez is founder and director of the Sanction project in New Jersey, an outfit that helps disadvantaged women with professional attire, support, and skills so that they may gain economic independence.
Ms. Nunez was inspired after seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater on April 21, and having already bought tickets for friends, was working out how to get more to see them perform again.
“We are thrilled. I bought three tickets for my friends and I am trying to bring some other ones. I am very impressed, extremely impressed. The choreography is very beautiful, very beautiful,” she emphasized.
A New York-based company, Shen Yun was formed in 2006 by a group of expatriate Chinese who came together to restore China’s traditional culture through the performing arts. Much of China’s 5,000-year-old culture has been destroyed during 60 years of communist rule and the Cultural Revolution.
[topic]Classical Chinese dance is an integral part of that culture, according to the Shen Yun website, passed down continuously within the imperial palace and ancient Chinese theater and opera.
“It has become a complete system of dance embodying traditional aesthetic principles with its unique dance movements, rhythms, and inner meaning,” the website says.
Ms. Nunez, who deals with hundreds of people through her work, described some of the performances in Shen Yun, noting the contemporary piece depicting Chinese students taking a stand for their spiritual practice Falun Gong, which is persecuted in China today, and also the dance Lotus Leaves depicting a traditional Chinese theme, that out of hardship comes good.
“It was beautiful … and the message the students gave, it goes to your heart,” she said, repeating that she was going to come back and see Shen Yun again this time “bringing my other friends.”
Ms. Nunez believes people have a “misconception about Chinese culture” and after seeing Shen Yun she was starting to see Chinese culture in a different way.
“All this culture is beautiful. They are showing us their culture, we are learning about the history and culture,” she said. “I am in love with it, I am in love and I am coming back again.”
‘So Beautiful’
Deborah Chapman, an executive assistant at Commodity Company, and her companion, Robert Cantian, a mechanical engineer, were also at Shen Yun’s Saturday matinee performance.
Ms. Chapman said after seeing Shen Yun advertised on television she realized the time to see it was “limited” and she knew she just had to see it.
“It’s just so beautiful,” she said. “The costumes, the dance movement, it’s all beautiful.
“I highly recommend it,” she said.
Reporting by Alec Wang and Lillian Chang.
Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, tours the world on a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company will perform at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center through April 22.
For more information visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts.
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