{"id":164100,"date":"2026-02-21T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:21:07","slug":"fort-lauderdale-theatergoer-feels-the-compassion-in-shen-yun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164100\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale Theatergoer Feels the Compassion in Shen Yun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.\u2014Kristen Connell, the owner of a neuroplasticity-related business, saw Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was stunning. It was more than I even imagined or expected. It took us through a journey, and it represented so many different aspects of China that I didn\u2019t have any familiarity with,\u201d Ms. Connell said.<\/p>\n<p>Shen Yun, based in New York, is on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyunperformingarts.org\/our-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"article-hover-class\">mission<\/a> to present \u201cChina before communism\u201d and to revive people\u2019s connection to 5,000 years of Chinese civilization and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really feel like I\u2019m more in tune with the history and what China has gone through. The message is to stay true and compassionate and kind, and that is the right path,\u201d Ms. Connell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the communist party has changed the culture, I think that to stay true and to stay authentic and to share the message is important. I think here in our society, we have the wrong messaging about China. I think we are told things that are not what Chinese people would want us to hear or know or believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyun.org\/classical-chinese-dance-music-costumes-singers-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"article-hover-class\">the performance<\/a> starts, the audience is treated to a scene from the heavens. Although Ms. Connell was still unsure of what to expect, she could feel the energy of what Shen Yun is about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually had some tears in my eyes at first, and I really wasn\u2019t understanding the big picture. But even in the beginning, as I was just tuning in to what was going on, I had a few tears in my eyes, and I just felt really a lot of tenderness and compassion,\u201d she described.<\/p>\n<p>Shen Yun\u2019s artists are trained in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenyun.org\/classical-chinese-dance\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-hover-class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">classical Chinese dance<\/a>, one of the most comprehensive dance systems in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the peacock. I thought that was really stunning. It felt very energetic and positive. I really think that one stood out for me. It was a lot of color. I love the movement of the fabrics. It feels very ethereal, like they\u2019re floating,\u201d Ms. Connell said.<\/p>\n<p>Audience members often comment that Shen Yun\u2019s dancers exhibit great skill in gymnastics or acrobatics, but Shen Yun\u2019s website tells us that the techniques seen in the performance actually originate from classical Chinese dance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the acrobatics, the flips\u2014those are like nothing I\u2019ve ever seen. It looked effortless. There was a huge range of techniques. They made it look so easy and elegant and just magical,\u201d Ms. Connell said.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Patricia Li and Maria Han.<\/p>\n<p>NTD is a media sponsor of\u00a0Shen Yun Performing Arts, covering\u00a0audience reactions\u00a0since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.\u2014Kristen Connell, the owner of a neuroplasticity-related business, saw Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Broward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-164100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}