(Clearwisdom.net) The ASB Theater in the Aotea Center in Aukland was again alive with an enthusiastic and appreciative audience for the second night of Shen Yun Performing Arts. Mr. Daverne, symphony orchestra conductor and composer, had high praise for Shen Yun. "I thought the show was absolutely amazing, it was a wonderful show. It's a package deal in all ways. It's one of the better shows I have ever seen. I have seen a bit of Chinese dance, but I was just knocked out, blown away."

Mr. Daverne, symphony orchestra conductor and composer

"From the costuming to the choreography, the music, the dancing, everything about it. And I just love the way the backdrops and all the music fit in. It's just wonderful. It's just a great show," said Mr. Daverne enthusiastically.

"I am very critical about shows, but there's not a lot that I would criticize in this particular show, not at all. It was just a marvelous show in all ways, especially if you're into dance and music and to folklore--it told all the Chinese folklore."

Mr. Daverne appreciated the Shen Yun orchestra. "I am a conductor of an orchestra, and I play a lot of Chinese music with my symphony orchestra. [Shen Yun's music] has got a Western flavor about it, but it still has that Chinese touch about it. Very panoramic. It tells a picture, music tells a picture, yes. Easy to listen to, loved it. Just a lovely, lovely show. Congratulations to everybody who put it on. I loved it, I really did."

"I've been interested in dance all my life, dance and art," explained Ms. Gilbert, an architect. "I think that the show was stunning, absolutely stunning. I think visually it was stunning. The colors were lovely and fresh.

Ms. Gilbert

"Intellectually it was also very profound because it's drawing on past Chinese myths and cultures and sort of bringing them to modern times. Chinese culture is being truly revived."

Ms. Gilbert was very pleased to see Shen Yun and said, "It's definitely worth coming to. It's got a lot of dance, and it's got some opera, too, so it's got something for everybody. Some of the dances are dramatic, some of them are dreamy."

Property Developer: "They're up there with the world's best"

Mr. Peters is a property developer and professional fund raiser. After the performance, he said it was a "very good introduction for me to Chinese culture. It's a stunning way to present it, it's so colorful-- you can never forget the colors you see."

Mr. Peters is a property developer and professional fund raiser

He loved the Chinese classical dance. "Wow, some of the best I've seen. They're up there with the world's best. Well, I always like seeing a grand piano being played, also the voices accompanying it, quite nice. Just the background music to the dancing, I guess I can't get enough of it. I wish I had more exposure to it," he said.

With regard to the piece "Heaven Awaits Us Despite Persecution" in which a Falun Dafa practitioner in China is persecuted to death, Mr. Peters said, "It's good to be reminded of oppressive regimes that some people have to live under."

Mr. Rewi, a chief executive of a charitable trust, could sense the spiritual aspect of the show. "I think in the world, there's a lot of suffering. We need to look inside ourselves, ... and obviously we're all looking for the truth," he said.

Mr. Rewi thought there was a spiritual message displayed in the flower dance "The Udumbara's Bloom."

The legendary Udumbara flower of Buddhist lore blossoms but once every 3,000 years. Rich with spiritual import, its unfolding is said to herald the coming of a great sage or enlightened being.

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