VENICE, Fla.—Performing live means that there are no do-overs, and no pauses, and certainly no room for error. Preparation is key.
“There were forty dancers, fifty musicians and one hundred people on the scene. That’s impressive and it was perfect. Tonight I saw a really professional, world-class performance. They are spectacular,” said Valentino Sevilla, a dancer.
Dance is an expression of the body. It is a language without sound. Shen Yun’s dancers use classical Chinese dance to tell stories from China’s 5,000 years of civilization.
“Body language expresses everything. In more than 70 percent of our interactions between people, body language expresses most of what we are trying to say to each other. I think that dance and performing arts breaks [down] all barriers of language,” said Mr. Sevilla….