WASHINGTON, D.C.—For emergency medicine physician Krista Day, Shen Yun presented a “wonderful expression of something beyond us, greater than us.”
“I thought it was beautiful,” she said after seeing Shen Yun at the Kennedy Center Opera House on the afternoon of July 16. “I love the message of us being divine beings. I also believe that we were divine beings who came from heaven.”
Based in New York, Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. It was formed in 2006 by leading Chinese artists with a mission to revive China’s divinely inspired culture.
Shen Yun presents a series of story-based dances as well as ethnic and folk dances from different parts of China, along with musical presentations. The opening scene of the performance tells the journey of divine beings who follow the “mighty Creator” to Earth, reincarnating in China’s imperial court, according to the performance’s program book….