Fashion Designer: 'It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen'

"Breathtaking, I love it. I’m so enchanted. Right now my head is flying with a bunch of ideas—I’m inspired. It’s beautiful, it’s amazing, and I’m so glad, finally, we have it here in L.A!"

- Merlin Castell,
Fashion designer

"It was a real work of art"

“I think that my soul was very well fed tonight, with the beauty of this performance. It just was breathtaking. The use of color, the use of the choreography. Everything about it was a real work of art.”

- Caryl Fisher,
State Department
Cultural Series Director

"Everything was impressive," said Canadian figure skaters & Olympic medallist.

It’s a breath of fresh air and there’s a great lyricism and a great sense of, how can I put it, there’s that delicacy to the way that the dances are done."

- Elvis Stojko, Canadian
figure skater and
Olympic Silver medallist

'The love that they emit awakens your own heart'

“The message was deep, profound, broad, and all-inclusive-not even a cell of arrogance, and yet at the same time you could see the strength... It’s so highly cultured, so deeply artistic, so born of the spirit of the people.”

- Dr. Obadiah Harris, president
of the Philosophic Research
Society in LA

Oscar Award Winner Enjoys Shen Yun

"I really liked the history part of the show, how it all comes together and it's been going on for centuries and it's still the same and still exciting and still very nice."

- Burt Dalton, co-winner of 2009
Academy Award- Best Achievement in
Visual Effects for the 2008 film
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button

Renowned Filmmaker: 'If heaven is the way we saw it tonight, count me in'

“At first my left brain is saying, ‘What’s the story? I’m not quite sure what’s going on’ and your right brain takes over and says, ‘this is so magnificent, so beautiful. I don’t need to understand everything, it’s just washing over'”

- Nathaniel Kahn,
renowned documentary
filmmaker

'I enjoyed it One Thousand percent'

"I've been to many, many operas, stage shows, you named it. I have never seen anything to compare to this. This is the very best, the most colorful, and the best directed show I have ever seen."

- Mike Schramm,
a vinyard owner

Artist: Shen Yun Dancers 'Moved as one and in perfect harmony'

"We got to sit up close and see the dancers' facial expressions, the exquisite detail of the costumes and how every single one of them acted as one unit when they were dancing."

- Nanette Crist,
a visionary artist

Conductor: ‘The quality of sound is beautiful’

"The rhythmic structure is wonderful. It’s so precise. And the conductor—of course, I’m a conductor—I know how difficult it is to be so precise for a show like this.”

- David Dworkin,
a conductor,
clarinetist, and educator