{"id":1866037,"date":"2023-03-03T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/that-was-all-very-new-to-me-says-it-executive-seeing-shen-yun\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T04:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:59:24","slug":"that-was-all-very-new-to-me-says-it-executive-seeing-shen-yun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/that-was-all-very-new-to-me-says-it-executive-seeing-shen-yun\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That Was All Very New to Me,\u2019 Says IT Executive Seeing Shen Yun"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthat-was-all-very-new-to-me-says-it-executive-seeing-shen-yun%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1866037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>COSTA MESA, Calif.\u2014Although most of the world sees China and thinks of its communist regime, the reality is, the Chinese Communist Party rule is only two percent of the total Chinese history. From legends of Creation to the Qing Dynasty, China was once known as \u201cthe Land of the Divine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know about the spiritual aspect before the show. So I\u2019m definitely learning about the divinity and what the Creation story is in Chinese culture. So that was all very new to me,\u201d said\u00a0Jeff Dixon, an IT executive.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u00a0Dixon and his wife Jill saw <a href=\"http:\/\/ShenYunPerformingArts.org\">Shen Yun<\/a> Performing Arts performance at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>With 5,000 years of history to draw from, New York-based Shen Yun puts on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyunperformingarts.org\/classical-chinese-dance-music-costumes-singers-and-more\">new production<\/a> every year so that the countless stories China\u2019s vast civilization can have its moment under the spotlight. Shen Yun is the world\u2019s premier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyunperformingarts.org\/explore\/category\/classical-chinese-dance\">classical Chinese dance<\/a> company, using this ancient art form to tell these stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was great. I think it was phenomenal they are doing that. I think dance is a great way to sort of brighten out culture, and I thought they did phenomenal job doing that,\u201d said Mr. Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>One of the dance stories takes the audience back to the period of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyun.org\/explore\/view\/article\/e\/eHIdpBl5ReM\/romance-three-kingdoms-chinese-classic.html\">Three Kingdoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the story. I like the way the set changed a lot. I like the costumes in that one quite a bit. And I like the battle scene, sort of interesting to see how they integrated dance with fighting,\u201d expressed Mr. Dixon. \u201cNot only that, but also the costumes are so, so good at bringing out the culture of the country. Another example of that was the one in the Forbidden City, and all the women wore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyun.org\/explore\/view\/article\/e\/NWB0lsKMsUo\/manchurian-dress.html\">platform shoes<\/a>. I thought it was so cool to see how they integrated that costume design into dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from dances of ancient China, Shen Yun also enacts stories from present-day China. One story showed Falun Dafa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyunperformingarts.org\/news\/view\/article\/e\/owScIs8qYjc\/what-is-falun-dafa-dyk.html\">practitioners<\/a> in China are standing by their faith and not backing down the face of oppression by the Chinese communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really impressed by the Falun Dafa story. It was powerful. I thought it was a good enactment of current events,\u201d said Mrs. Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>Shen Yun\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyun.org\/explore\/category\/digital-projection-backdrop\">digital backdrop<\/a> allows effortless change of scene designs. Use of this technology is Shen Yun\u2019s very own patent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen such a technologically integrative performance. I thought that was very wonderful.<span> <\/span>I\u2019ve never seen that before in the United States,\u201d said Mrs. Dixon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WpxFF0-KfOI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporting by Alice Sun and Maria Han.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Epoch Times<\/i><\/a><i>  is a proud sponsor of <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyunperformingarts.org\/classical-chinese-dance-music-costumes-singers-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Shen Yun Performing Arts<\/i><\/a><i>. We have covered <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-shen-yun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>audience reactions<\/i><\/a><i>  since Shen Yun\u2019s inception in 2006.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/that-was-all-very-new-to-me-says-it-executive-seeing-shen-yun_5097002.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">\u2018That Was All Very New to Me,\u2019 Says IT Executive Seeing Shen Yun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COSTA MESA, Calif.\u2014Although most of the world sees China and thinks of its communist regime, the reality is, the Chinese Communist Party rule is only two percent of the total Chinese history. From legends of Creation to the Qing Dynasty, China was once known as \u201cthe Land of the Divine.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t know about the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1772,"featured_media":1895111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3741,8400,20203,3693,20218],"class_list":["post-1866037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-executive","tag-me","tag-shen","tag-that","tag-yun"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}