SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Ron Thornton, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with a love for history, watched Shen Yun Performing Arts with his daughter at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 18. Mr. Thornton was greatly impressed with Shen Yun’s presentation of China before communism.
“I thought it was an amazing display of China before communism, and the beauty in the art and the music that came to the audience was just nothing short of outstanding,” he said. “You have nothing from me but positive feedback on this experience today.”
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. Its goal is to revive traditional Chinese culture and to show its audiences what China was like before the communist regime seized power….