ROSEMONT, Ill.—The Egals had long wanted to see Shen Yun Performing Arts, and it was every bit as beautiful as they could have hoped for when they finally saw it at the Rosemont Theater on April 20.
“It’s just unbelievable,” said Mr. Jerry Egal, a pilot. “We love it. It’s very beautiful, very colorful, beautiful dancing, just exquisite dancing.”
Mrs. Egal agreed, and added that it was “deeply touching.”
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company and takes as its mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. In recent years, the company has added to that the description of “China before communism.” Indeed, for five millennia, China was known as the “Land of the Divine,” and its people believed the culture a gift from the heavens. The Chinese Communist Party that rose to power in 1949 has for 70 years sought to uproot traditional culture….