Shen Yun December 19, 2009

Reviews:
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The Media:

* “The performances are inspired, the costumes and scenery enchanting, and the show as a whole a delight to experience. And besides its professional excellence, the Spectacular exudes a wonderfully positive karma. These beautiful, gifted people are expressing something that’s both pure and good.”
– Philadelphia Weekly

* “An extravagantly beautiful production… Lavish production numbers, colorful sets, dazzling costumes, brilliant choreography, and booming Tang dynasty drums.”
– BroadwayWorld.com
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Arts Community:

* “The dances were graceful, delicate, and beautiful! There was something pure and bright and also very dignified about them. This show gave me a real sense of goodness and meaning in life.”
– Anna Liceica, Soloist, American Ballet Theatre
* “It’s very artistic, and you just feel nice watching it. It’s hard to explain exactly what it is about it that’s so beautiful.”
– Marc Reese, trumpeter, Empire Brass

* “Absolutely magical… The gorgeous costumes, the gracefulness, the beautiful choreography, the beautiful music… It’s beauty from beginning to end. Everybody that I know who has seen it, everybody comes away with exactly the same opinion: Everybody says you have to see it to believe it. You cannot describe it in words; it must be experienced.”
– Christine Walevska, cello virtuoso

* “...a highly professional, well thought out and beautifully produced presentation! This is not only entertainment, but a valuable cross-over cultural event: a strong, gracious gesture toward international understanding, in an all-too-troubled world.”
– Donn B. Murphy, Ph.D., President, The National Theatre

* “It amazed me… The choreography is phenomenal, I think it’s the best show that I ever saw. The best. Even the backgrounds, the dancing, the choreography and the music, the singing—everything. I am very, very lucky to see this amazing and fabulous performance, and I couldn’t have imagined it would be like this.”
– Valentina Alexess, former ballerina, Moscow Ballet

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Notable Figures:

* “The show was great. Terrific in all ways. A marvelous program... Everything done today was highly professional in every single way. We really enjoyed it. I had no idea of the complexity of the Chinese style and the skill it takes… a remarkable achievement.”
– Ted Kavanau, Founding Senior Producer of CNN

* “Divine Performing Arts has the best show.”
– Annette Lu, Vice President, Republic of China

* “Absolutely spectacular. I think it is exactly what the world needs—an uplifting experience that doesn’t have to deal with words.”
– Joyce Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, Black Tie Magazine

* “The entire production is superb. It has grace. It has spectacle. It has unique qualities that you cannot see in any other production and, perhaps, five thousand years of culture—you may expect nothing less than this.”
– Alan Capper, President, Foreign Press Association

* “Usually we hear about song and dance multiculturalism, but it’s not very deep and profound. But here tonight it was the most extraordinary cultural show I’ve ever seen and experienced… The sense of divinity, spirituality, and good values—those things for me were very transcendental, very inspirational… It transported me back in time, in a sense of a beautiful, wonderful, quintessential Chinese culture… It was so marvelous.”
– Dr. Cyril Dabydeen, author, professor, and critic

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