SYDNEY, Australia—Gabrielle Meyer traveled over four hours from Coffs Harbour to Sydney to experience Shen Yun Performing Arts for her birthday.
Mrs. Meyer, a retired guest house owner, said after finally getting to see New York-based Shen Yun perform at the Sydney Lyric Theatre for its Sunday matinee, “It was absolutely wonderful.”
“The talent, the costumes, the choreography; brilliant, absolutely brilliant. It’s been a great pleasure. I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.”
Shen Yun is on a mission to revive China’s 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture that has been almost lost in modern times under communism.
China’s great texts, rooted in the ancient Buddhist and Taoist philosophies, all told the story of great cultures being left as gifts to humankind from the heavens. However, during China’s communist revolution, the materialist ideology rooted in atheism had no room for such stories, leading to the burning and destruction of much of China’s rich cultural heritage….