CHICAGO—On December 27, audiences in Chicago roared in applause as Divine Performing Arts (DPA) concluded its first of two showings at the Civic Opera House. Enthusiastic audience praised the show as unprecedentedly wonderful.
Ms. Pan Changhong and her husband expressed that after watching the performance, they felt proud to be Chinese. Ms. Pan said, “I feel very proud [to be Chinese]. I think that is it not easy for a show to have this many performers and be able to introduce Chinese history to non-Chinese people around the world.”
Pan, who has seen DPA multiple times, said tonight’s performance was unprecedentedly wonderful. “I think that the performance gets better and better every year—especially this year. It was even more splendid than the performance two years ago at McCormick Place,” said Pan.
Pan shared that her parents may have experienced the same type of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party that Falun Gong practitioners were depicted to face in one of the dance programs.
She said that before, she did not understand the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong and the 1989 student democracy movement, but after watching DPA, reading the “Nine Commentaries” and listening to her family’s experience, she understood the real picture.
“[The performance] is able to [allow us] to see the truth,” said Pan.
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