A variety of women with dance backgrounds saw Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Music Center in L.A. <br /><br />[Natalie Martinez, Ballet Dancer]:<br /><br />“It was very colorful, very precise, very beautiful. It was very very flowy; very amazing."<br /><br />Angela Vamos shares her impressions. <br /><br />[Angela Vamos, Dancer]:<br /><br />“A new world of dance. A lot of history and culture behind it. Folktales and stories, belief and faith.”<br /><br />Choreographer and dancer Kris Davis was moved to tears.<br /><br /> [Kris Davis, Choreographer, Dancer]:<br /><br />“I was more emotionally touched, by colors, and the sound and the spiritual undertone and life that was brought to the audience. I was very moved. I had a lot of tears at moments.”<br /><br />Ms. Davis says the show is beautiful.<br /><br />[Kris Davis, Choreographer, Dancer]:<br /><br />“If you were to watch nature and watch a blooming lotus flower... I often felt like I was watching nature, in its full beauty, being expressed through music and dance.”<br /><br />She enjoyed the distinction between the male and female dances.<br /><br />[Kris Davis, Choreographer, Dancer]:<br /><br />“I loved the female and male energies, like so equally balanced. You would have these flower-like aetheric pieces and these very earthy grounding drums, so the yin-yang was very potent and powerful.”<br /><br />Rex Smith has had a lengthy television, musical and Broadway career. He says Shen Yun’s choreography is wonderful.<br /><br />[Rex Smith, Actor/Singer]:<br /><br />“I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I thought it was a wonderful choreography. And the fact that it’s steeped in 5000 years of culture... I was impressed with the dances that had to do with the limited rights of freedom in China.”<br /><br />NTD News, Los Angeles.
