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London: Divine Performing Arts' Debut at Royal Festival Hall Showered with Praise (Photos)

February 23, 2008 |   By Minghui reporter Xue Rui in London

(Clearwisdom.net) On February 22, 2008, the Divine Performing Arts Touring Company presented its first show at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The audience showered the show with praise, and Asian students commented that they felt proud of their culture.�

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Audience at the first Chinese Spectacular in London

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Audience at the first Chinese Spectacular in London

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Audience at the first Chinese Spectacular in London

Miss Yang from Guangxi who studies Biomedical Science at King's College attended the show with friends. She said, "I liked the show very much, and feel very proud. Letting people know about Falun Gong and traditional culture through dance and song is very good."

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Miss Yang, who studies at King's College, attended the show with friends.

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Asian audience touched by the characters, "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" on the backdrop

Ms Liu, who immigrated to England from Malaysia more than ten years ago, traveled three hours by car from Manchester to attend the show. In the dance "The Risen Lotus Flower", Ms Liu said she felt touched at seeing the characters "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" printed on the backdrop.

She also said that all the performers performed with their hearts, the show was beautiful and very successful. Ms Liu felt that such a Chinese traditional dance production is very rarely seen, and it was the first time she had watched a show like the Chinese Spectacular.

People Hope Divine Performing Arts can visit more cities

Miss Huo, who is originally from Xian, came to watch Divine Performing Arts with her boyfriend from Manchester. Miss Huo is currently studying biology in England. She said that she just returned from China after spending Chinese New Year there and she felt that the performance was exquisite, depicting very truthful contents.

She said she felt a lot of pride seeing a traditional Chinese cultural performance at a world class music theater, especially hearing all the applause from the audience. She said "to be honest, it is very hard to find truly traditional things like this back home".

She said that she hopes the Divine Performing Arts can visit Manchester and stressed that "if there was a performance like this in Manchester or Edinburg it would be so great. There are a lot of Chinese people there.

London is one of the most important centers globally for arts, culture, politics and financial markets. It holds a place as the one of the 3 financial centers of the world, along with New York and Tokyo. Situated on the southern coast of the River Thames, the Royal Festival Hall is a world class performing arts center. It holds 2000 people and currently the tickets for the four Divine Performing Art shows in London are almost all sold out.