CANBERRA, Australia—After feeling the "depth" of the Chinese Spectacular on Saturday evening April 12 at the Canberra Theatre, Jennifer Dunkley, a youth worker, declared she would share the experience with the young women at the refuge centre where she works.
"I work in a young women's refuge and this is going to be good to go back and tell them, 'I saw this beautiful thing last night'."
Ms Dunkley, who has lived in Canberra her whole life, said of this new experience "[I] never knew a lot or experienced the depth of Chinese culture. I knew it was there, I know a lot about what is going on with the government and things like that. I knew about the Falun Dafa ...before. I am very happy to see that in this show.
"The songs that they sang, the lyrics. It's the first time I have heard a soprano or a baritone in a theatre, and it was beautiful even to hear it in the Chinese, I had to read the lyrics, but it is just beautiful, unbelievably beautiful."
During the soprano and baritone performances, which are sung in Chinese, the lyrics appear in English on the backdrop. Contrastingly, the drumming and dancing performances need no translation, as Ms Dunkley declares her favourite aspects of the show to be "the drums for its intensity, the ladies are so lovely their walking along the stage … the costumes and everything is so beautiful. It's just so beautiful and shiny."
Asked about her overall feeling of the show, Ms Dunkley said: "Meaning. Really, it's more than just a show. I think, but that's because I read between the lines…
"It's telling me that display, it's not just about display, it's not just about what you see. It's about sending messages, it's about teaching. It's about showing and teaching really. It's not just what you see, it goes much deeper than that."
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