Art Director Says the Splendor Is a Rare Find--a Professional Show that Comes from the Heart (photo)

By Clearwisdom reporter Kelly Huang from New York

(Clearwisdom.net) Filling the seats of New York's Radio City Hall, the Chinese New Year Splendor mesmerized the audience with the majestic scenes of traditional Chinese culture.

Lana Gimpelev

Ms. Lana Gimpeley, an art director a small theater performance company, attended the show on February 6 and was very impressed. She told the reporter, "The performance is beautiful, and contains various stories. The scenes and costumes are very nice, and the singers and dancers are very professional. This is a very good show for the audience in North America."

Ms. Gimpeley appreciated the traditional values so rarely depicted nowadays. "The programs are full of meaning, embodying the Chinese traditional culture, which has a history of thousands of years. The United States is relatively young, so to an American audience, it's nice to see such good traditions which are very different from what we have been used to seeing."

She mentioned that after seeing some of the scenes in the show, she was impressed by the strength of the Chinese people, "No matter what they encounter, they don't give up."

Ms. Gimpeley was glad for the chance to learn more about China. "If we don't read books about the stories or the culture, we can only understand a tiny bit of Chinese culture. This show is a very good idea. Today, I learned that the Chinese people are still struggling for their freedom and happiness."

She also said that the dancers and singers were very professional and committed; especially the dancers, for they did not only perform movements on the stage, but they danced with their hearts. They revealed their inner feelings with their facial expressions and movements. "I felt that the culture and the messages in the dances are very important to the dancers, they value them, and want to keep them and to let us know, too."

From the professional perspective of an art director, Ms. Gimpeley commented, "The quality of the performance is very very good. I produce stage performance myself, and I have seen various stage performances. I would say that everything in this show, including the choreography, the dances, the directing, etc., is professional. The use of the sky screen gives people the room for imagination and brings the audience into the stories."

"The show is very successful, and very high quality!" she said.


Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/2/7/171988.html

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