PURCHASE, N.Y.—George Cody, a drummer, and his wife Manuelita Cody, a senior advisor, watched Shen Yun Performing Arts at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College on April 19. Mr. Cody shared that it was the couple’s first time seeing Shen Yun and that he found it both beautiful and entertaining.
“It was all very good,” said Mr. Cody. “I enjoyed it very much.”
“I think it’s a little bit of a parable for what we see more and more in the world ... [like] power and greed and things that are becoming divisive,” he said.
“They teach us the value of being a good person, and I think they teach that it’s been valuable for a long time. And that the things that we know to be good now are the same things ... [that] were good a long time ago. So those stories go back as the stories of good people and other religions and other cultures all have a similar thing, and I like that message.”
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts has been the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company since its inception in 2006. Its performers come from all around the world, united in their mission to revive traditional Chinese culture and the beauty and goodness of China before communism. Shen Yun currently has eight equally sized companies that tour the world simultaneously, delighting audiences in over 200 cities across more than 20 countries and spanning five continents.
