BERLIN—After wowing the audience at Berlin's International Congress Centre at its opening show on Friday, the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular finished to a standing ovation and three curtain calls.
Manuela Engonga, an Equatorial Guinea native who is employed at that country's Embassy in Berlin, attended the Spectacular with her colleague Ludmilla Stefanova.
They were offered tickets to the show as a gift during the Chinese New Year, but had to wait until Friday to see it.
"The show was fantastic. I loved everything. Especially the spring dance [Forsythia in Spring]. The colors, the harmony, the music in this dance and the movement of the body...I'm walking on air, I'm speechless," said Engonga.
She said she was especially impressed with 'Lady of the Moon'. "The one with the moon...although it is connected to eternal life, just as it is connected in this show, it is connected somehow with us all. This reminded me of my homeland. It was very beautiful."
Engonga said that in Equatorial Guinea there is also a legend about the moon.
"Here, one wants something from the moon. But, among my people, the moon asks something of the woman—actually of the child, because the moon can't have children. The moon asks for the woman's child, the woman who works in the fields. And in my country, if one looks hard at the moon one can see a woman and child. The moon stole the child from the woman. This is the reason why this scene reminded me of home."
The drumming acts, 'Victory Drums' and 'Drummers of the Tang Court', also reminded Egonga of her home.
"They are also part of our culture, because we play the drums a lot. The power, the strength behind the drumming — one feels deeply as an African."
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