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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Shen Yun 2013 in L.A.

The show takes part on the main stage and on the screen on the back.  It was kind of cool actually. I've never seen a screen used that way before. There is a lot of religious connotation and I found it absurd to watch how a cult (Falun Gong) religious group would depict Buddha in the form of their leader. The dancing was average and the opera singing was out of place. I liked  the cup dance (頂碗舞) and the spinning doilies dance but disliked the boring political-statement dances.

By the way, the setting in Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is terrible, a long isle without center cutoff. Plus the air circulation was so bad that two of us were almost suffocated for the whole two hours. No more next time.

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