CHICAGO—“Outstanding, amazing, awesome.” These were the descriptions that Mr. Diaz, the owner of a limousine company and his wife, a teacher, gave the Divine Performing Arts (DPA) after seeing the show on Dec. 27 in Chicago.
Part of DPA’s 80-city world tour this season, its New York Company is presenting three shows in the city’s renowned Civic Opera House during the weekend.
To customer service representative Ms. Montanec, it is easy to comment on DPA’s show: “The performance was divine, just like the name is.” She thought that the show was very touching. “Basically [the dancers’] hand movements, their body movements, the projection that they had in their face ... every single movement that they made delivers an emotional feeling within ... every single movement had a message.”
Physicians Bapu and Vijay Arekapudi, who go to the Civil Opera House eight times a year, also found the DPA phenomenal. They liked the dances a lot, especially Persecuted on a Sacred Path, which portrays the story of a Falun Gong practitioner being tortured to death by the Chinese Communist regime, but rewarded by heaven in the end. Mr. Arekapudi thinks that freedom of expression and freedom of spirit is very important, and that the Chinese regime should accept the diversity of people’s different ideas.
“I am not a religious man,” he claims, “but I defend the people who like to believe what they want.” He states that China needs to change, and that it would be a great success for Chinese people if they could one day have freedom.
Ms. Paulos, a nurse, holds the same opinion as Mr. Arekapudi. What struck her the most was the inspiration in “Persecuted on a Sacred Path” that there is hope for good things to come, no matter how horrible the current situation is. Although her seat was not far from the stage, she brought her opera glass to the show so that she could catch all the details of the performance. Her son is a musician in New York and she said that she would go there to see the show again with him.
Her friend Ms. Levy, a retired neuroscience professor, loved Flowing Sleeves, Rest in Knowing, Hesitate No Longer, and Hope. She felt the performances was profound, from the costume design to the composition of the songs.
For more information, please visit DivinePerformingArts.org
Part of DPA’s 80-city world tour this season, its New York Company is presenting three shows in the city’s renowned Civic Opera House during the weekend.
To customer service representative Ms. Montanec, it is easy to comment on DPA’s show: “The performance was divine, just like the name is.” She thought that the show was very touching. “Basically [the dancers’] hand movements, their body movements, the projection that they had in their face ... every single movement that they made delivers an emotional feeling within ... every single movement had a message.”
Physicians Bapu and Vijay Arekapudi, who go to the Civil Opera House eight times a year, also found the DPA phenomenal. They liked the dances a lot, especially Persecuted on a Sacred Path, which portrays the story of a Falun Gong practitioner being tortured to death by the Chinese Communist regime, but rewarded by heaven in the end. Mr. Arekapudi thinks that freedom of expression and freedom of spirit is very important, and that the Chinese regime should accept the diversity of people’s different ideas.
“I am not a religious man,” he claims, “but I defend the people who like to believe what they want.” He states that China needs to change, and that it would be a great success for Chinese people if they could one day have freedom.
Ms. Paulos, a nurse, holds the same opinion as Mr. Arekapudi. What struck her the most was the inspiration in “Persecuted on a Sacred Path” that there is hope for good things to come, no matter how horrible the current situation is. Although her seat was not far from the stage, she brought her opera glass to the show so that she could catch all the details of the performance. Her son is a musician in New York and she said that she would go there to see the show again with him.
Her friend Ms. Levy, a retired neuroscience professor, loved Flowing Sleeves, Rest in Knowing, Hesitate No Longer, and Hope. She felt the performances was profound, from the costume design to the composition of the songs.
For more information, please visit DivinePerformingArts.org
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