MONTREAL, Canada—Actors and friends Mel-Annye Côté, Dragan Ilin, Myriam Sassi, and Kristine Boulanger visited the Place des Arts on Feb. 3, taking in a new experience with Shen Yun Performing Arts.
“I didn’t expect this, it’s extraordinarily beautiful, it’s powerful, really, as a show,” said Ms. Côté, who also teaches theater. 
Ms. Côté said she had expected the dance but she “didn’t expect all this richness of different numbers as the show went on.”
New York-based Shen Yun is indeed best known for dance, as it is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. It also utilizes a classical orchestra that notably combines ancient Chinese instruments, bel canto vocal soloists, folk and ethnic dances, emcees who introduce each vignette, and dynamic backdrop technology on which Shen Yun holds a patent—all of which Ms. Côté listed as aspects adding to the richness and diversity of her theatrical experience that night. …