(Clearwisdom.net) Highly appreciative audience members continue to resoundingly praise Shen Yun Performing Arts as it graces the stage at The Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Canada.

Guy Champoux, Director, Canada, for Air Tahiti, came with his wife and two children to see Shen Yun and highly praised the show. He said his daughter wanted it to go on forever.

"It's a wonderful show. It's a wonderful performance. It's something that everyone should come and look at ... Really, we all enjoyed it, and the comment of my little girl was 'too short'. She wanted it to be longer, she wanted to stay and enjoy it more."

Mr. Champoux said he appreciated many aspects of the performances. "All of the performers are very unique. The soprano and the tenor have really wonderful voices. It's a combination of all the different arts--to opera to the colors and the screen behind that brings something unique and authentic to the show.

Guy Champoux, Director, Canada, for Air Tahiti, came with his wife and two children to see Shen Yun.

Mr. Champoux's wife Reiko is Japanese; she said that as an international family they like to have their children experience many cultures. They found Shen Yun to be a wonderful representation of Chinese culture.

Mrs. Champoux described Shen Yun as "wonderful, beautiful ... it's very good for the kids to learn about the Chinese culture." Their children said they loved Shen Yun.

Loved the Spirituality

The delighted smiles and enthusiastic applause after Shen Yun's opening night at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre showed how much the audience members had been touched by the performances.

Joining the enthusiastic attendees was Helen Mellard, who originally hails from England, and lived in Ontario until about seven years ago. She has worked in the wellness field for 24 years and teaches therapeutic tai chi and yoga, mainly for people with disabilities or those undergoing rehabilitation after illnesses.

Helen felt her background gave her a deeper insight into the meaning behind the performances.

"I love the spirituality of the whole show. And the origin--how it teaches the origin of China, how everything started ... I love all of the stories behind it, the education--I think it's wonderful. It's showing you, right from the beginning, the divinity of China and the spirituality of China.

"I think what we get over here from the media is more of the communist side of it [China], whereas I feel that it [Shen Yun] is showing the spiritual nature behind China, which I think is really powerful, rather than it just being a performance."

Shen Yun Brings Joy and Happiness

Audience member Veronica Berger, a retired nurse, and Borbela Vida, a personal trainer and athletics coach originally from Hungary who now lives in Vancouver, were deeply touched and expressed their appreciation of the performances. Ms. Berger said, "Excellent, excellent, I wish they would come back more often, not just once a year."



Borbela Vida, a personal trainer and athletics coach originally from Hungary.

Ms. Vida found Shen Yun uplifting. "It is gorgeous, it is so beautiful I really do enjoy it. Very nice, light, ... and smooth, and uplifting--I love it."

"Joy, happiness, and lightness!" she exclaimed.

Ms. Berger felt that she gained a deeper appreciation for China's classical culture by watching the performances. "The culture is very rich and the color is incredible and the dance ... just up high above the average, beautiful." She said she "enjoyed it very, very much."

Admiring Strength of Conviction

Ms. Johnson, a dance enthusiast (in red) with Sarah Esparza, an employee of a financial company (in brown) and a friend who works with horses.

Ms. Johnson, a worker with disabled children, thought the show was "exquisite" and "beautiful."

"It just incorporates so many things and just incredible talent; well worth it. Very graceful, the line that all the dancers, the male and female dancers have, is just beautiful, so perfect."

Ms. Johnson said, "The philosophy of life, that there is something higher and better than what we experience here on this earth, and because of that, it should influence the way that we treat people and what we do with our lives. It's really important."

Sarah Esparza, an employee of a financial company in Surrey, thought the performance was "very beautiful."

She was most impressed by the educational value that Shen Yun is able to bring to the audience. "It's very educational and that's probably the biggest value to me because it opens your eyes to different people."

Amanda Johnson added that she thought the Shen Yun show "was just beautiful and the dancers have got such strength and beauty. They must train very hard and be very dedicated to be able to do all that."

What impressed Ms. Johnson the most was "how the people had the strength of conviction to stand up for what they believed in and it didn't matter to them what would happen to them, they still held to their faith."

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