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Shipping Executive: Shen Yun, Great Choreography and Some Very Powerful Scenes
SYDNEY—David Costellano, a Commercial Regional General Manager for a logistics and shipping company in Sydney, and his wife Irina, a trainer and assessor in Flight Aviation, were in the audience seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company at its matinee performance of classical Chinese dance and music at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre on Saturday May 5.
They were both really enjoying the performance.
Mr. Costellano said, “The choreography is great, beautiful colours, some scenes were very powerful … showed a lot of history, and actually told the audience a lot,” he said.
[topic]Based in New York, Shen Yun Performing Arts was established in 2006 with the mission of reviving 5 millenia of divinely inspired Chinese culture, that has been all but destroyed by more than 60 years of Communist rule.
Shen Yun’s mini-drama pieces draw upon stories and legends that span China’s history from the Yellow Emperor and through the Tang and Song dynasties and all the way to modern-day.
The Costellanos had lived in China for two years and Mr. Costellanos said they were exposed to some of the culture there, “although it’s very much hidden,” he added.
The Shen Yun performance displayed the Chinese culture in an enjoyable way, said Mr. Costellano.
“It [Shen Yun] showed people’s expressions about life in general, about how they feel. It’s nice to actually see performing arts from the Chinese, that can actually show that expression—openness,” he said.
“There were some funny bits, some serious bits, I think it was a good mix,” he said.
Mrs. Costellano said the performance was “incredibly well choreographed.”
She especially enjoyed two dances, Lotus Leaves and Snowflakes Welcoming Spring. “They were really good,” she said.
In Lotus Leaves, the dancers’ unique full-circle fans sway like lily pads in the wind, evoking scenes of a flowering lotus garden in the summertime, says the program book.
In Snowflakes Welcoming Spring, dancers take small, quick steps through snowy fields as they skillfully spin and twirl sequined handkerchiefs. They delight and dazzle the eye in this northeastern folk dance.
Mrs. Costellano was also impressed with Shen Yun’s vividly animated backdrops that extend the stage and transport the audience to another world, and which interacts with performers on the stage. She said it “was very well done,” and “very well timed.”
Reporting by NTD Television and Ron Champagne.
Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, tours the world on a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company will next perform in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 8-9.
For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org.
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