KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Michelle Covington, costume designer, and Mark Covington, physician, left the theater after Shen Yun Performing Arts feeling renewed.
“[You felt] elevated to a different level than the one we live on in everyday life,” said Mrs. Covington at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts after the matinee on Jan. 28. “It takes you above, you know. The clouds—take us up to the clouds!”
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, with a mission to revive China’s 5,000 years of civilization. Audience members often leave the performance feeling hope and renewal, to which Shen Yun has credited its traditional approach. Following in the footsteps of the great artists and thinkers of antiquity, they believe in cultivating the spirit, and cultivating goodness, in order to bring forth art that truly inspires….