Professor, Correctional Educator: "Kinh nghiệm Thấu đáo sự Huyền bí "
Errol Craig Sull Cropped

BUFFALO, New York—“Tôi chắc chắn rất thích các shows diễn của Shen Yun cả năm ngoái và năm nay, thật là huyền diệu," giáo sư Craig Sull Errol sau khi xem buổi trình diễn tại Shea’s Center vào ngày 29.

Giáo sư Sull là người sáng lập  cũng là chủ tịch của The Correctional Education Company, người đã hiến dâng thời gian của mình để giúp đỡ người khác thông qua sách, những buổi hội thảo và những công thuyết của ông.

Là một nhà sư phạm, ông suốt đời làm việc trên nhiều dự án cũng như viết bài cho các tổ chức phương tiện truyền thông quốc gia và là trợ giáo tại the State University of New York at Buffalo. 

Giáo sư Sull rất vui để chia sẻ ấn tượng của ông về show diễn,  mô tả những kinh ngạc  tỏ lòng cảm kích sau khi xem Shen Yun năm nay.

‘Hãy để sự huyền bí dẫn lối bạn’

Bạn có thể chưa bao giờ biết điều bí mật của huyền bí là gì. Vậy hãy để nó dẫn lối  mang bạn đi qua nhiều thời đại và các tầng lớp khác nhau,Giáo sư Sull nói. "Đó là những gì Shen Yun làm được, nó sáng tạo ra sự kỳ diệu,  tôi đã trãi nghiệm thấu đáo sự kỳ diệu này."

Giáo sư Sull nhấn mạnh rằng trong phần mở màn, điều đầu tiên khán giả cảm giác được là "cái đẹp lộng lẫy  ... âm nhạc tuyệt trần, lôi cuốn bạn vào "

“Kế tiếp là sự phấn chấn tràn đến làm cho bạn chìm đắm trong nóMặc dù sự lộng lẫy  âm nhạc đều hiện diện trong suốt chương trìnhnhững gì tỏa khắp cho tôi và cho hầu hết mọi người  một thông điệp toàn diện, cảm giác thỏa mãn cứ chiếm đoạt lấy bạn.”

‘They are true songs’

“The Shen Yun songs interpreted by the singers in the way they sing, it touches your heart, touches your soul, and you have an understanding of the lyrics. You can even feel it before you read it,” Prof. Sull said.

“They are true songs. The lyrics and the emotion of the singer reach out, grab you, touch you, take place and plant themselves inside of you. When you look at the lyrics, it tells you this is what you’re feeling and why you feel it.”

The Message of the Show Stays With You

He said that the closing act of the show, Opening of Heaven’s Gates, gives the audience the feeling of being onstage with the performers. The state-of-the-art animated backdrops “take [the performers] into the heaven, into an area where the stage can’t go, and simply to a higher level.”

Then when the show is over, the message of the show stays with you, Prof. Sull said.

“This was not just entertainment, when the lights went dark and you left, you just say that you had a good time, and you forget about it,” he explained.

“What’s presented here, you have 5,000 years of history that is windowed into your soul and your mind. And in the combination of the pageantry, music, song, lighting, and costumes together, gives you something that you’re going to talk about, feel about, and think about for a long, long, long time."

True Mission of the Arts

 “The true mission of arts is to expose and introduce people to the world, to other cultures, and to have people better understand the human spirit and what culture is all about,” Prof. Sull said.

He noted that ShenYun “gives the world a chance to know the true China and its independent spirit.”

“Beyond the wonderful artistry and culture, all of the show tells beautiful stories of the human spirit, of justice, and freedom of independence. It also presents an interesting conflict: It has the very tranquil, peaceful, and beautiful China within the last 5,000 years versus the China today, so you have a presentation of what China should be like, what China was like, and the way of China today which is very oppressive.”

Prof. Sull believes that the larger message conveyed by Shen Yun is “also pervasive on a worldwide basis.” “You can take what happens in Shen Yun and put that in other countries put it all over the world. Therefore, Shen Yun has become a spokesperson not only for China, but really for the rest of the world.”

He added, “Shen Yun does entertain, but entertaining is only the appetizer of what the show offers. The main entrée is the messages it conveyed, such as, what China should be, versus what China is now. And I think seeing and understanding this conflict through the means of culture, through the means of dance, through the means of music and song, is a wonderful way to present it.”

‘Hopes of Chinese people stay alive with ShenYun’

“It’s a message of hope more than anything else,” Prof. Sull said.

In the context of China’s five-millennia-old civilization, he said that “even though there are problems today, the spirit and the excitement and the future hopes of Chinese people stay alive with a program like Shen Yun, with the people in the program, and also simply with the spirit of Chinese people.”

“Please keep on!” Prof. Sull added.