PHOENIX—Bob Auray, the president of an investment firm, and his wife Marion celebrated a belated Valentine’s Day by attending Shen Yun’s evening performance at the Phoenix Orpheum on Feb. 19.
The couple agreed that it was “a journey of beauty and a wonderful Valentine’s week present.”
“It was a beautiful performance with beautiful messages,” Mr. Auray said enthusiastically. “The God-given human spirit, the athleticism, the beauty of the performers and costumes, the dance conception—all of it! I’m glad we came.”
Shen Yun Performing Arts was founded in 2006 by a group of leading Chinese artists who had fled the persecution of China’s ruling communist party. In the decades since the regime’s violent takeover, Chinese traditional culture was forced to the brink of destruction….