JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.—Audience members have said in the past that Shen Yun Performing Arts is more than just simple entertainment and that it sends important messages. Hardware design engineer Eric Harrah and his wife Elaine Harrah, a stay-at-home wife and mother, could concur. The couple attended Shen Yun at the ETSU Martin Center for the Arts on Jan. 10.
“It was beautiful. I loved it. It was wonderful,” said Mr. Harrah. “There’s a lot of truth spoken to it, and truth mixed with beauty. There is a great message that really spoke to us in a lot of ways.”
Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by leading Chinese artists, who made it their mission to revive traditional Chinese culture through classical Chinese dance and music. According to the Shen Yun website, China was once known as the “Land of the Divine,” and its culture was deeply spiritual, yet this was all abolished by the atheist communist party that took power in 1949….