FAIRFAX, Va.— Josephine Abboud, a vice president in marketing, watched Shen Yun Performing Arts at the George Mason University Center for the Arts on Jan. 22.
“It’s exquisite,” she said. As soon as the curtain went up for the opening program, Ms. Abboud felt a sense of freedom and optimism. “It was very freeing and very uplifting. I found [the performance] very deep, very introspective, very colorful, and very flowing.”
Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. According to its website, the mission of its New-York based artists is to revive China’s 5,000 years of traditional culture back to its pre-communist glory….