UNIVERSITY PARK, Illinois—Will Asfour, a consultant, watched Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University on Apr. 27.
“It’s cool to learn history, culture, and arts and dances,” said Mr. Asfour. “I think it’s good for people to reverse their takes and things like that … I’m enjoying it a lot.”
Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 and is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Now with eight equally sized companies touring the world simultaneously, Shen Yun’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture and to give its audiences a glimpse of pre-communist China….