NEW YORK -Amerigo Fabbri, the dean of Pierson College at Yale University, attended the final performance of the Chinese New Year Splendor Saturday at Radio City at the invitation of his brother.
He spoke about how amazed he was after seeing the show.
"The show is spectacular, I mean amazing," he said.
"They're doing a great job bringing together the history of Chinese culture. The sound effects, the visual effects, the special effects, the singing, and the dancing -it's just amazing."
He named several favorite pieces: "I loved the drummers, and the tenor, he was just incredible. The water dance was great."
Fabbri is also a professor of modernist literature. Asked to comment on the traditional Chinese cultural elements portrayed in the show, he particularly referred to a dance segment that depicted the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese communist regime in mainland China.
"In terms of western civilization, you would have the gods in heaven, and how they relate to earthly life, and how you have the three women in prison and how one of them gives her life for the other two -these are great, great elements of the culture that are certainly conveyed by the show."
The Divine Performing Arts international touring companies land next in Germany and Japan.
For information on all upcoming shows, please visit: http://www.divineperformingarts.com/
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