FAIRFAX, Va.—Marwan Ahmad, executive director of a nonprofit, only knew of China from what he saw on the news.
“But on the cultural side of it, I think China obviously has a lot to offer to the world. It’s a beautiful culture,” he said after seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts at the George Mason University Center for the Arts on Jan. 21, on the eve of Chinese New Year, in Fairfax, Virginia.
Like many first-time Shen Yun theatergoers, he was intrigued by Shen Yun’s mission to display “China before communism” through music and dance.
The New York-based classical Chinese dance company has since 2006 taken the world by storm in its mission to revive the 5,000 years of China’s divinely inspired civilization….