Shen Yun’s show in Westchester on Sunday received standing ovations from the audience. Next we catch up with one family with a background in Bollywood movies and Indian dance.<br /><br />Shen Yun Performing Arts held its first of two shows at Purchase College’s Performing Arts Center on Sunday.<br /><br />After seeing the show, former Bollywood actress Padma Sidana says she was speechless.<br /><br />[Padma Sidana, Former Bollywood Actress]:<br />“It’s amazing. It’s very beautiful, very graceful. There’s no words to say. It’s very beautiful.”<br /><br />She says the dancers really put their hearts in to the performance.<br /><br />[Padma Sidana, Former Bollywood Actress]:<br />“Every performer is so good and so in to it. They are putting their soul in it, you can see, I mean, you can feel it.”<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />[Padma Sidana, Former Bollywood Actress]:<br />“I not only enjoyed it, I also feel a peace in my mind. It’s really amazing.”<br /><br />Her son, Akshar Sidana, is an actor, stage performer, and choreographer. He says the performance transcends language barriers.<br /><br />[Akshar Sidana, Actor]:<br />“Not only in the skill level, not only in the technique, not only in the performing arts realm, but also on a more intellectual, a more spiritual realm. So when you touch that base, when you start touching that level, in someone’s heart you get to a point where it’s not just a performance anymore. It’s an experience.”<br /><br />Ms. Sidana’s daughter is also a dancer and choreographer. She was impressed with the artistry in Shen Yun.<br /><br />[Neha Sidana, Indian Dancer and Choreographer]:<br />“The technical artistry that’s put in to it, the choreography, the costumes. It’s just the grandeur of the whole thing is, like I said, you are carried in to a different world. I was sitting in the auditorium and I didn’t even know where I was, watching the hugeness of the performances and the whole production itself.”<br /><br />Shen Yun will return to the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College on September 12.<br /><br />NTD News, New York.
