Divine Performing Arts Touring Company's Premiere Show in Sarasota Highly Praised by Audience Members (Photos)
By Chen Zhenghong and Wenqing in Sarasota, Florida
(Clearwisdom.net) The Divine Performing Arts Touring Company's second
stop on its world tour was Sarasota, a beautiful seaside city located on
Florida's southwest coast. The Touring Company presented the first show at the
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall at 8:00 p.m. on December 22, 2008. The
spectacular and exquisite performance deeply impressed the audience of diverse
nationalities and cultural backgrounds. The curtain fell to rousing cheers and
applause from the audience. Attentive audience members at the first DPA show in Sarasota Audience members were deeply impressed by the DPA performance
in Sarasota Mayor of Sarasota: The show was incredibly beautiful Sarasota Mayor Lou Ann Palmer Ms. Palmer said that all kinds of cultural performances from around the world
that had been held in Sarasota were incomparable with this DPA show. This unique
eastern art was amazing and exciting. She said that she brought her whole family
of seven people to the show. Ms. Palmer used to be a dancer and choreographer, and said that she could see
that the dancers performed nobly and with great emotion. She found the show to be incredibly beautiful and thought that everyone
should come to appreciate the show. It's a unique performance for Sarasota. Seminole City Vice Mayor: Exquisite, elegant, educational and entertaining Seminole Vice Mayor Thomas Barnhorn Mr. Barnhorn attended the DPA show last year. He said that the culture, the
colors, and the dancing were fantastic. He had to come to see it this year. He
thanked the sponsor for bringing DPA to Sarasota. After having seen this year's
show, he had high praise. He called the performance, "Exquisite, elegant,
educational and entertaining. It's awesome." Artist: DPA is an inspiration to my art Christine, an artist with experience in theater, enjoyed the bright colors
and the way they were used in the show. "Light green, with the flowers, and the fans! Being an artist, I use
bright colors. I use a lot of bright colors in my art," said Christine. "And I enjoyed the technique, which was simple, but explanatory. It very
simply explains the deities coming down through the picture onto the stage, from
2D to 3D." Christine said, "Having done theater myself, I enjoyed the unison,
conformity, beauty, dignity, and grace in the movements, with the hands." Her friend Maria, a probation officer, said the performance was
"fantastic and very beautiful." "Really a big expos" Luay Kupata, a medical doctor, said, "The dance is not something you can
see anywhere and the colors are beautiful. The type of dancing and expressions,
you can express story with a dance. You cannot see this anywhere. It's very
nice. I've watched plenty of Chinese shows before, but this one is not like you
see on TV or in the theater. I heard about the show at a medical
conference." Luay Kupata A western couple told of their pleasant impressions of the show. Bert works
in the computer business. He said, "It's very interesting. We haven't seen
much of that here in Sarasota, I guess. I have seen Chinese shows before,
different ones. It's so different from western shows, plays and songs--a
different kind of cultural mood, I guess. That's the best way to describe it. So
it's interesting to see different cultures, a big expos." Bert's wife Claudia works in real estate. She said, "I like [the show]
very much. I think it's very unusual, something completely different from what
you can see normally. It's very calming and quieting for us, not overloading
with everything. That's very good." The Divine Performing Arts Touring Company will put on its second show in
Sarasota at 7:30 p.m. on December 23. For more information about DPA, visit http://DivinePerformingArts.org.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/12/23/192151.html
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