BALTIMORE—Seeing traditional Chinese culture through Shen Yun Performing Arts, John Polaskl felt one takeaway was that “we have more in common than I would have imagined.”
Mr. Polaskl, president of an independent school, enjoyed the evening performance together with Ms. Christy Donovan, physical therapist, at The Hippodrome Theatre on April 29.
“It’s pretty, pretty amazing,” said Mr. Polaskl. “Learning about some of the culture, the Chinese culture, especially the pre-communist China, has been pretty new.”
“A love of beauty, spiritual, peace, is definitely something that we have in common even though it may express itself in different ways based on different cultures. There’s still a commonality in terms of respect for a higher being.”…