“A completely different art program”, “The show has great historical and cultural values” … These are some of many compliments paid by popular tourism companies after attending an event promoting Shen Yun Performing Arts in Hanoi on Mar 1, 2018 at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel.
Today when travelling from one country to another, from one continent to the others is no longer a challenge, tourism becomes an indispensable form of entertainment for people in modern life. Especially, it has recently become a new trend for tourism companies to organize tours that incorporates traditional culture and art performances, that enriches and makes the tours more meaningful. Bearing in mind the wish to bridge different cultures internationally and at the same time to contribute to reviving noble traditional culture values, Viet My Traditional Culture Co. with blessing from Shen Yun Office in New York, has with Blue Ocean Tour Co. co-organized the event to introduce Shen Yun Performing Arts to more than 50 travel companies in Hanoi.
One of featuring guests of the event, popular fashion designer La Hang, also recalled her feelings of Shen Yun show in Taiwan. For her, Shen Yun seemed to be exceptionally special and impressive. Thus last February, she has invited her colleagues and staff to join a tour with her and her family to Taiwan to experience Shen Yun performance. La Hang said: “I told my two sons who were studying in the US that you might not come home in the summer but you should definitely come home in February to accompany mommy and my colleagues to watch Shen Yun. My staff were also invited to go see Shen Yun. After coming home, they all heartily expressed their gratefulness for the chance to see the show”.
Most recently, Ms. Nguyen Thu Van, former director of Vaccine and Biological Products Company No. 1 under the Vietnam Ministry of Health, a doctorate of medicine, has come back from a show of Shen Yun 2018 in Taiwan in late February. Her memory and feelings of Shen Yun live performance remained fresh at the event. She also expressed her wish “to take my offsprings and relatives to see the show. At the same time I will also recommend Shen Yun to my friends so they could watch the performance themselves”.
Having directly listened to various audience experience and feelings at the event, also watched video clips introducing about Shen Yun Performing Arts, the invited guests could partly appreciate the featured values of the art show. Deploying borderless language of music and dance, Shen Yun has been able to transfuse traditional culture spirit to any ethnics that enable them to fully appreciate the performances. Those includes folk dances, which take audiences on journeys to majestic Tibetan plateau, long riverside villages of the Thai ethnic group, or vast Mongolian prairie. It can also be the most popular legends from ancient times like Journey to the West, Nezha, Wusong; or such noble characters whose virtues are very well admired in modern life as the heroine Mulan, undisputed general Han Xin, loyalist Yue Fei, etc.