State Leaders Resoundingly Welcome Shen Yun Performing Arts To North Carolina (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Amidst greetings sent by the highest government officials in North Carolina, Shen Yun Performing Arts was very warmly praised at a reception following the show on Friday evening, September 4.

Audience members watch the show attentively

"Thank you very much this evening to all of you. I bring greetings from the North Carolina House, from our speaker, the honorable Joe Hackney. I bring you greetings as well from the top of the Senate. I bring you greetings from the honorable Governor of our state, Governor Beverly Perdue, and all of the citizens of the 58th House District. This is my first time to see this performance and, like Mayor Johnson said, it won't be my last!" said a representative from Bennett College, on behalf of North Carolina's government officials. "It was just spectacular. Thank you so much. You have graced our community. Do come back again!"

Congresswoman Alma Adams: "It Was Wonderful!"

As a visual artist and professor of art, North Carolina State Representative Dr. Alma Adams was taken aback by the high level of artistry presented in the Shen Yun Performing Arts show on Friday night.
"I was just overwhelmed with the sound, with the music, the costumes--it was just tremendous," she said after the show at the War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro.

Dr. Adams spoke after the Shen Yun show

"I was in awe! I haven't seen anything quite like it; it was absolutely fantastic," she said.

Dr. Adams has been teaching art at a local university for 38 years, and continues to do so even now, along with her duties as a State Representative. Speaking at the reception after the show, Dr. Adams thanked all the performers and delivered greetings to Shen Yun on behalf of herself as well as House Speaker Joe Hackney and North Carolina's Senate.

"I am a visual artist by training, so it was just wonderful for me to be in the audience and to see all of the interaction, not only with the visual staging, that you have with the costumes and your scenery. It was just extraordinary," she said to the artists.

"It was wonderful to see you integrate the arts and the culture, it was just spectacular. You all are tremendous--you are great performers, the singing was just outstanding, everything was just wonderful."

Dr. Adams said that she wished her students could witness this world-class performance and said she would definitely come back to see the show again when it returns to Greensboro.

"It is really just tremendously rewarding to have experienced this, and I certainly look forward to your coming back. You have graced our community and you have brought us into your culture, and that's a wonderful thing," she said to the performers.

"To be able to look at the performance, to listen and yet to learn from the stories that you told with your imagery and your artistry, it was just absolutely tremendous."

Dr. Adams noted the story lines behind the dances and praised the use of state-of-the art backdrops with each dance or music performance. "It was just tremendous. It was my first time seeing this. I hope to come back again.

"It helped me appreciate all the visual pieces of it as well as the performances and how they are interrelated. It was good--it was wonderful!"