THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Accompanied by the Chinese and Western instruments of the Divine Performing Arts Orchestra, the Shen Yun Chinese Spectacular received standing ovations for the second night in a row on Feb. 20 at the The Hague's World Forum Theatre.
Attending the night's show was poet and performing artist, Wilbert Stuifbergen.
"I like the music, it was really moving music," said Stuifbergen. "I also liked the drumming part in the first half."
Stuifbergen said that as a performing artist he enjoyed some of the more subtle elements in the movements of the performers.
"I enjoyed them because they're subjective. For example, the girls who were moving like water lilies, they were making movements with the fans. While moving, they suggested that it's water," said Stuifbergen. "As a performer myself, I like some parts."
"Especially in the first part, you see all these nice gestures," he continued. "It's nice and it's moving … It's mainly the softness that speaks out of these items," he said.
"The music I'm already a bit familiar with, but I also like music because of the feeling that it speaks from; that comes from the music. It really moves me."
With a mix of traditional dances, songs, and music, the Spectacular draws from China's 5,000-year history, while presenting the traditional values that rested at the heart of its civilization as well as the courage of those persecuted under the communist regime in modern times.
"I know what's going on in China. I've been trying to change things for a year and a half myself and am now as a member of the CIPFG [Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong] in Holland," said Stuifbergen.
"But because I know what's going on sometimes some parts, it's really such a big difference, a huge difference where I see the softness in the show and you know what's actually happening in China so….it almost makes me want to cry."
"The opposite is happening in China, so you wish it was like it was in the end, in the second half [of the show] where there was a scene where all sorts of people just walking around and playing tennis and then all of a sudden the communist agents come again.
"And you wish it was just regular, that people could normally walk on the streets and do things with no problem [in China]. So I think that that's what you wish for, that that would be normal."
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Chinese Spectacular shows. For more information, please see www.divineperformingarts.org.
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