Audience Members From All Walks of Life Praise 'Grand' Show
Ms. Gallender, an entertainer and former fashion model, and Mr. Ouchida (Ji Yuan/The Epoch Times)
PORTLAND, Ore.—Filling the halls of the Portland Keller Auditorium, audience members from all walks of life were delighted with the Shen Yun Performing Arts show on Tuesday evening, May 19, bringing the sights and sounds of ancient China alive.
Ms. Gallender, an entertainer and former fashion model, and Mr. Ouchida, a salesman from a local community college, shared their excitement after the show.
Ms. Gallender said: “This is a birthday present for James. He’s Japanese and Hawaiian, and I wanted him to enjoy the Oriental culture.” They had both traveled extensively to the Orient. When Ms. Gallender saw the ads and later came across a ticket booth at a mall, she was very happy to buy tickets for the performance.
Mr. Ouchida said that the Shen Yun performance was “beautiful, very colorful, and grand.”
Also in the audience was David, an entrepreneur from Portland. He called the spectacle “mesmerizing, hypnotizing, and well done.
“I like the flowing and the control, for example, in Welcoming Spring. I’m impressed with some of the dancers that can hold a pose, a complicated pose, for minutes at a time without even blinking, nothing moves—it is wonderful,” he said.
Another appreciative audience member was actress, Delight Lorenz, who “played too many roles to remember them all. My favorite was in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Ms. Lorenz also liked to perform in Greek tragedies.
Ms. Lorenz also appeared in the McKenna TV shows and in the TV series Under Suspicion.
The singers in the performance blew her away. “Well, I have never seen anyone with that kind of voice."
Audience members are often touched and surprised by the rare beauty and magical power conveyed by the two-stringed Chinese erhu, with its otherworldly quality that stirs the soul as few instruments can.
Ms. Lorenz said that after the show she wanted “to see the two-stringed instrument the young lady was playing. I was just thrilled to hear that.”
New York-based Shen Yun will continue its Spring Tour 2009 of the West Coast in Spokane, Washington, on Thursday, May 21, and then Seattle, Washington, on Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts Spring Tour 2009. For more information please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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