NEWARK, N.J.—Birthdays are meant to be celebrated in special ways, which is why physician Arthur Patterson, who has been in practice for four decades, chose to gift himself tickets to see Shen Yun Performing Arts for his 65th birthday.
“We had a fabulous time, and I will be back,” said Mr. Patterson, who watched the performance for the first time with a friend at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on May 6. “The choreography was amazing, the stories were amazing.”
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….