Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company receives a standing ovation from a sold-out house at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater on Sunday Jan. 16, 2011. (Dai Bing/Epoch Times Staff)
Mr. Robert Stromberg, Emmy and Academy Award winning production designer for the movies ‘Avatar’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Academy Award Winner:
SHEN YUN ‘Absolutely Beautiful’
“It’s absolutely beautiful. It was so inspiring, I think I may have found some new ideas for the next AVATAR.
“It was a very unique performance. It was tremendous to see the wide range of different types of performance art come together as one… It’s obviously very poetic. The subtlety and attention to detail and synchronization is astounding.”
“It was an interesting use of an interactive element [ the animated backdrops]…it could become a new art form in itself—a live performance mixed with digital projection and maybe 3-D eventually, using those two techniques together, it would be almost like going to the theater and the movies at the same time.”
Arne Duncan, US Secretary of
Education enjoyed Shen Yun with his
wife and two children at The Kennedy
Center in Washington D.C.
“It was a beautiful
performance.
I had a good time,” said Mr. Duncan following the performance. “I especially liked the dance ‘Plum Blossom,” added Mrs. Duncan.
I had a good time,” said Mr. Duncan following the performance. “I especially liked the dance ‘Plum Blossom,” added Mrs. Duncan.
Cate Blanchett, Academy Award winning actress, her husband, Andrew Upton, playwright and director, and their children recently attended Shen Yun’s performance at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre.
“It was an extraordinary experience for us and the children,” Ms. Blanchett said. “The level of skill, but also the power of the archetypes and the narratives were startling.”
Kang Mang Ho, renowned South Korean conductor
“As a whole, the tone and the pitch interval from the Western and Chinese traditional musical instruments blended and matched seamlessly.” “Many people had tried to put Eastern and Western musical instruments in an orchestra but they never succeeded. Shen Yun did it. It sounds so unique and terrific! “Shen Yun will create more amazing tones in the future and become the pioneer of a new era. Beyond my imagination, Shen Yun has created perfectly clean and well-executed tones and pitches.”
Mr. Dobbie, Town of Atherton Vice Mayor and retired hightech executive
“It is magnificent, the coordination of the dancing is beautiful, the costumes are beautiful, the back lighting is so great. I am very impressed, very impressed.” “Everything that is happening has to be synchronized and it is done perfectly.”
Elvis Stojko, seven-time Canadian Champion, threetime World Champion, and two-time Olympic Silver Medallist figure skater
“I prefer it over ballet because it’s not just about the technique and just looking nice —it’s about showing the spirit and the energy of the dance. And that’s what is being conveyed. It’s not just about perfect technique and perfect toe point, even though they also have that, it’s about the energy and the essence and the spirit of the person doing it and what they’re trying to convey.”
Christine Walesvska, world renowned cellist and master musician
“If you want to be uplifted, if you want to see something of sheer beauty, grace, magnificence, then this is the show to see. It puts you in another world, and I think that that’s also the great power of music because it has the capacity of lifting people’s spirits and inspiring their souls, and that’s what you have with this show.”
