Photo Technician Says Shen Yun is ‘Wonderfully Amazing’

CHICAGO—Mrs. Donna Franklin was pleasantly surprised by the performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company. “I was so impressed with the theatricality of it—it was an amazing spectacle,” she said of the performance on Saturday, July 7, at Chicago’s beautiful Civic Opera House.

New York-based Shen Yun’s mission is to revive “5,000 years of divinely inspired Chinese culture,” and presents that culture through classical Chinese dance, according to the company’s website.

Grasping for words, Mrs. Franklin said: “It was, it was [a] spectacle and it was just wonderfully amazing, engaging, and involving. It was beautiful!”

A retired teacher, consultant, and business writer, Mrs. Franklin is also a photo technician and talked with enthusiasm about the animated backdrops Shen Yun uses.

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“The backdrops were amazing. They are gorgeous. I mean, they had waterfalls and things that were moving—so I thought the backdrops were just gorgeous. It was so fun when they flew the people in and they jumped up … . The colors and the costumes, that was also gorgeous,” she said.

Mrs. Franklin got especially involved in the dances that depicted the ongoing persecution of the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa in China today.

“They were talking about the Dafa belief, they were not allowed to practice that and these thugs came in and then the heavens opened up and the magical fairies came and saved them, which is what we would all like to believe happens in this world, and of course it doesn’t. That’s what sort of got me, sort of like a fairy tale. … The storyline was beautiful,” she said.

Reporting by Valerie Avore and Sharon Kilarski.

Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, tours the world on a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org

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