OXFORD, UK—One can expect that, as a retired pilot captain of the Royal Air Force and the former pilot of F1 superstar Ayrton Senna, Owen O’Mahony has seen a lot of incredible things. Yet there are always new things to see and experience, and Captain O’Mahony did just that when he watched Shen Yun Performing Arts in the New Theatre on Jan. 15.
“It was absolutely fabulous,” said Captain O’Mahony. “It’s so artistic, it’s colorful, it’s vibrant, superb. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by leading Chinese artists, and quickly became the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Over the years, Shen Yun has grown from one to eight equally-sized companies that tour the world simultaneously. Shen Yun’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture, which was lost when the communist regime took power….