BERLIN—Just like last year, the audience enthusiastically received the performance of the Chinese Spectacular on Saturday afternoon at the International Congress Center (ICC) in Berlin. After Duisburg and Frankfurt, Berlin is the third city in Germany where the Chinese Spectacular show is being performed. New this year is a live orchestra that is part of the performance, besides the roughly 50 artists.
Frank Wende, the senior financial manager of a global firm, came to the show on the recommendation of a friend. And he was not disappointed.
He said that the show was: "Very beautiful! Extraordinary! Extraordinary, because we are overloaded with special effects in different shows today, being overloaded with things that are often not necessary. This show is reduced to the essentials, and yet still speaks to the mind."
He continued that the show brings out the "deepest emotions of people, the deepest feelings, which one forgets many a time in our day and age, in our society, because of being overloaded with so many things, which we have to manage or which overwhelm us." In the Chinese Spectacular , "one can focus on the beauty, concentrate on things that address our emotions, and that is exactly why this show is so extraordinary."
The show addressed for him the basics instead of the complex, and he believes that this is the reason why the show touches people's conscience and frees them from the forms of this complex society. The scene "'The Risen Lotus Flower' [gave me goose bumps]. I really had goose bumps, because nothing is worse then being robbed of one's freedom by whomever or by which means. The way they conveyed that to the audience was really brilliant," shared Mr. Wende.
Mr. Wende had little connection with China in his past. But, he understands the importance of the show to the Chinese people. He said, "One should not simply mask the entire Chinese history and culture and reduce it to 50 years—50 years of Mao Zedong or Jiang Zemin, or whatever they are all named. The Chinese history is actually one of the oldest in the world, which dates back many thousands of years. And messages which in those days came from Confucius, or wherever they were carried into the world, are truly manifested in all of us; they were passed down over many thousands of years. Even if we do it unconsciously, but we still live some of these things. If one has taken the time to study Confucius and has touched upon it—it is simply like that. These are the fundaments and they are even today applicable."
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