Shen Yun

Curtains draw. Clouds overflowed from the stage into the audience. Dancers rose up from the clouds. Graceful performance. Disciplined claps across the haul. 

The dance performances end with a still/tableu, and then there is a gong, and the lights dim bringing the focus on the artists and away from the props, and then the curtain is closed completely.  So I couldn't clap.

Skilled, graceful, acrobatic. Dance drama performances.

Live orchestra. Excellent mix of western and traditional chinese music. Perfect synchrony between the music and the dances. Music was flawless, and I perhaps enjoyed the music much more consistently than the dances.  

Two MCs - a guy in suit, and a lady in chinese attire. I could only understand what the guy said. 

One hour of multiple performances, a fifteen minute break, another hour of performances. Pretty good. Not as exhilarating as I had imagined from the large Shen Yun posters that I had been seeing ever since I have been in the US. Parents liked the show as did us and the kids. I was sure Niya would enjoy atleast the orchestra. Kittu seems to have appreciated as well.

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