MIAOLI, Taiwan—With the reverberating sound of the gong, the curtains opened on Shen Yun Performing Arts’ first performance of their 2023 season in Miaoli, Taiwan, at the Miaobei Art Center on Feb. 24.
The audience included those who had traveled from Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore and Vietnam. In fact, 200 people had flown from Vietnam just to see Shen Yun’s performance. At the end of the performance, two curtain calls were met with a standing ovation and thundering applause.
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and has long had devoted fans in Taiwan, evidenced by the fact that the tickets to the performances in Miaoli were sold out by early February, and tickets for the Kaohsiung and Changhua performances are now hard to come by. Dignitaries from nearby cities and counties sent flowers to wish Shen Yun successful performances….