SALT LAKE CITY—“It was fantastic … the whole world needs to be exposed to the truth,” said Jeanne Schaefer after seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts.
“[Shen Yun] is the future,” she said, “we are looking at the past and it will become the future again.”
Mrs. Schaefer, qigong instructor, attended the matinee production with her husband Stephen Schaefer, lawyer, at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater on Feb. 22.
“[Shen Yun] are our heroes from heaven,” said Mr. Schaefer, “we admire [them] … we love [them]!”
China was once known as “The Land of the Divine” and Shen Yun presents this culture by drawing upon the Middle Kingdom’s Buddhist and Daoist philosophies. Based in New York, the company performs classical Chinese dance, folk and ethnic dances, as well as story-based pieces that tell tales from ancient times to the modern day….