Aix-en-Provence – The Shen Yun season in France started on January 2 in the ancient capital of Provence for a new journey through 5,000 years of Chinese culture and history.
Some 220,000 lucky people will be able to attend the performances in 2025 which will take place in 12 French cities: Aix, Toulouse, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Dijon, Nantes, Lyon, Toulon, Tours, Amnéville near Metz, Eckbolsheim near Strasbourg and of course Paris.
For those latecomers, let us point out that several performance halls are already full, this is the case in Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, Tours and even Lyon.
This Thursday, January 2, the Grand Théâtre de Provence resonated with the unique sounds of the Shen Yun orchestra, combining oriental musical instruments with a Western symphony orchestra.
“Great job”
Among the many spectators, Mr. Raoul, Head of Sales of an American company producing products and equipment for scientific research, said he was delighted to start the year by discovering “the choreography, the beautiful work of the artists, the masters of Shen Yun.
Explaining that he practices Italian baroque singing himself, Mr. Raoul felt a “really very exciting energy, very evolving on the sound and the accompaniment of gestures and movements! It’s a wonderful job! »
Feeling both “compassion” and “energy that puts you at ease”, Mr. Raoul confides that the show acts “like therapy”. “It’s very beautiful with the music, everything is a marriage of art and colors too! The artists’ outfits which were made by fashion designers. It’s a creation with a lot of energy… lots of light colors which are really primary colors, which are really zen! »
The analyst wanted to pay tribute to the creator of Shen Yun, saying: “A master created this orchestra and this universe with the artists. Respect for the master! »
“A truly exceptional Christmas present!” »
For Carole Héroux, Shen Yun is “a truly exceptional Christmas gift!” » This legal manager in insurance experienced “a lot of emotion and a lot of grace”.
Shen Yun means “the beauty of dancing divine beings,” paying homage to a belief in a Chinese culture inherited from the divine.
“We really feel all this sweetness and all this tranquility with the divine,” she declared, specifying that “this is felt physically and in the music”. “Then this Western and Asian mix is quite surprising and it goes very, very well. It’s a great time! »
For Ms. Héroux, Shen Yun contributes to “anchoring traditions and introducing people to a world that we don’t encounter every day. »
“An energy more powerful than us”
Denis Vramulet had hoped to attend the Shen Yun show for three years. This nuclear installations engineer said he was “amazed by the whole spectacle”.
“I really liked the dance, the female and male part, the classical Chinese dances and also the costumes and the variety of the 400 costumes – if I understood correctly – which were presented to us, as well as all the productions. »
Of Romanian origin and born under the Romanian communist regime, Denis Vramulet confides that he “felt really attached to this show! Knowing that my parents, my grandparents, experienced a bit of persecution from this regime, personally, I felt that the show refers to this feeling of optimism. »
Indeed, Shen Yun presents scenes from present-day communist China, exposing the brutal persecution suffered by practitioners of Falun Dafa, a meditation discipline based on the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.
“Even China, today, can reorient itself towards the person, towards the human and it can also make it possible to find a balance for everyone in order to evolve other than in a collective, national way,” hopes the engineer.
Denis Vramulet also felt a form of connection with the divine through Shen Yun paintings: “For my part, I feel that there is an energy more powerful than us. So, I think that, yes, I am in symbiosis with this principle of earth-sky connection. »
The show is therefore, for this scientist, a bearer of “optimism”, giving rise to “the strength to believe, that at a given moment, we can return to humans and to the sky too, and have this balance between the evolution of the nation and the evolution of humans. »
Epoch Times is a media partner of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered public reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
