MONTREAL, Canada—Former dance teacher Marie-Josée Lareau saw Shen Yun Performing Arts at Théâtre Maisonneuve Place des Arts on April 19 and described it as “divine.”
Mrs. Lareau said she could feel the performers’ dedication to their art and praised their synchronicity.
“I really feel they’re fully invested,” she said. “It’s as if they’re completely present. It’s a beautiful union between them. I think they’re breathing at the same speed. It’s very deep, their connection.”
She noted that “there’s a real cohesion between them [that] goes beyond movement and dance. ... There’s something really inspiring about it.”
“Their technique is completely extraordinary. It’s unequaled perfection,” Mrs. Lareau said. “It’s almost wordless. One wonders how many hours they train to achieve something so pure, so beautiful, and so graceful. Their costumes are very colorful, very pretty. It’s beautiful. What impressed me most, I think, was the synchronization with the screen background.”
According to the performing arts company’s website, Shen Yun’s name means “the beauty of divine beings dancing.” Mrs. Lareau said she felt “the whole show is designed in a way that makes you feel the divine behind everything.”
“Benevolence, grace, gratitude, the beauty of the divine, and how all this beauty can lead us to elevate ourselves [and] our souls,” she said.
“I‘d say my soul was lifted tonight, that it did my heart a world of good, and I’ll be carrying that message for a long time to come.”
