Fashion designer Natalia Stepura was gifted the experience of Shen Yun Performing Arts by a friend for her birthday.
Ms. Stepura, who is from Ukraine, said it was fascinating to see more than the one side of China that she is familiar with.
We know the “modern way of China, but we don’t know much about the history,” Ms. Stepura said after seeing New York-based Shen Yun perform at the St. James Theatre in Wellington on April 14.
Ms. Stepura and her friend Olga Baranovskya, who is from Belarus, both originally migrated from the former Soviet Union states to New Zealand….