ATLANTA—Gina Ann Riggs, actor and co-founder of the Marietta Theatre Company in Atlanta, celebrated Christmas Eve by attending the completely sold-out world premiere of Shen Yun Performing Arts 2023.
“Absolutely beautiful. I came here expecting to see beautiful dances and beautiful costumes and scenery, and it’s so much more,” Ms. Riggs said at Atlanta Symphony Hall with her family the afternoon of Dec. 24.
Shen Yun, founded in New York in 2006, is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company. Many of the founding artists had left communist China in search of freedom of belief, which Ms. Riggs said she only learned during the performance, and appreciated….