(Minghui.org) Shen Yun Performing Arts debuted its 2016 global tour on December 22 in Houston, Texas. Shen Yun will perform twelve shows at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts December 22 through January 2.

This year's show is all new, and presents timeless legends and tales portrayed with original choreography, music, digital backdrops and costume design. Shen Yun’s four dance companies will perform in over 100 cities in the Americas, Europe, East Asia, and Oceania in the upcoming season.

Welcome Letters and Commendations from Over Twenty Officials

Shen Yun Performing Arts received greeting letters and commendations from more than twenty Texan elected officials, including U.S. Senator John Cornyn, U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, junior U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz, and Chairman of the House Rules Committee Pete Sessions.

“Genuine, Loving and Pure”

Michael Menchaca, damage prevention manager of an oil and gas company, with Livia Guajardo at the Jones Hall for the Performing Arts on December 23

“This is so genuine, loving, and pure.. It was very nice,” said Mr. Menchaca, the damage prevention manager for an oil and gas company.

He shared his inspiration from the performance, “My soul is wonderful, it just rekindled…It just made my heart get away from the world outside and see what we have to look forward to.”

“There is a heaven and that we will be there one day. And we come from heaven, and we will go back to our home one day,” Mr. Menchaca added.

Presenting Universal Beliefs

Nick Flores, an executive with a medical company

Mr. Nick Flores, a medical company executive, was amazed to find the spirituality presented in the show seem familiar to him. “I was very surprised to see that the beliefs are the same,” he said.

“In a sense that we come here knowing that we’re not going to be here forever and that we come and we suffer. Everybody suffers in their own way and that at the end there is a sort of, you could say a rainbow, at the end of a storm or something like that,” Mr. Flores explained.

“The Show Tonight Was the Most Amazing”

Businessman Rene Puente and Teresa Contreras

“It was more than amazing. It was more than what I would have ever expected,” exclaimed businessman Rene Puente. “I would not imagine that you could do so much just through dance, and speak so many words and emotions.”

“I felt much love, compassion, understanding. And I know how to maybe treat people. Just pure love,” he said.

Mr. Puente was impressed by the experience, “I think every time the curtain went up, it was just exhilarating...The show tonight was the most amazing.”

“Very Artistic and Pleasing”

Wes Hart, a drilling engineer

“Very soothing, very traditional...I feel tranquil inside right now,” said Mr. Wes Hart, a drilling engineer.

“It certainly shows the generations in China...Very artistic and pleasing,” he continued.

An inspiration Mr. Hart received from the performance was “to examine one’s inner self and to make yourself relax with life.”

Revitalizing Ancient Chinese Culture

Stephen Borden, Vice President of sales for Honeywell, with his wife at the performance on Dec. 22

“I really saw the ancient China come to life,” said Stephen Borden, Vice President of sales for Honeywell.

He thought the show was “very inspiring” and “spiritual.” “It really shows the Chinese people are connected spiritually to the earth and to the heaven above,” he said.

David Harris, civil engineer for Harris Engineering

“Very well done. The culture, the representation of the culture was wonderful. I truly enjoyed it,” said Mr. David Harris, a civil engineer for Harris Engineering.

He was most impressed by Shen Yun's revival of traditional art forms, “It is absolutely beautiful and it should never have been [lost].”

The next stops for Shen Yun Performing Arts are Ogden, UT on December 26, Salt Lake City, UT on December 29-30, and Grand Rapids, MI on December 29-30. For more information on tickets and dates, please visit http://www.shenyun.com.