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Shen Yun... My wife and I went to see the Shen Yun dance performance last night at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The show was spectacular! Shen Yun is a Chinese dance troupe based in New York that features classical and traditional styles of Chinese dance dating back for thousands of years. The orchestra was mostly western instruments supplemented with traditional Chinese instruments. Erhu (2 string fiddle) Pipa (4 string Lute) Guzheng (16 string zither) Dizi (bamboo flute with buzzing membrane) Lui (traditional large gong) Tickets were a Christmas gift from my ... total surprise to me and my wife. Shen Yun advertisements were in storefront windows of all the Asian stores and restaurants and we had plans to go, but felt the money was better spent on a new TV. So, we got both after all. Researching the website for the theater, it stated dress for the occasion was to be appropriate for an opera. So, we dressed up! The bad part were the amount of people who went dressed like they were going to a sports bar to watch a football game. No event could be complete without someone who is totally obnoxious and (in this case) he was sitting right behind me! This guy was fidgeting and kicking the back of my seat every few minutes. I turned around several times to the crumpling of what appeared to be a bag of potato chips. Yes, he was eating something in a bag despite the warning signs that food or beverage are not permitted in the theater. I couldn't wait for intermission... he was back in his seat eating a turkey sandwich so I went to the ushers and asked for assistance. They were nice and since the venue wasn't filled they allowed us to move up a few rows into some empty seats. The performance was a supplemented by large screen animation on the backdrop and choreographed perfectly with the dancers. Costumes were colorful and stayed on for all the dance routines. Only once did a dancer drop a prop and another slipped and lost a step during a routine. Each scene was announced in English and Chinese with a short explanation of the dance. Lighting, special effects and music volume were also perfect. Every year the production does a different show so if we decide to go again we can expect to see and hear new things. Shen Yun (maybe) coming to a city near you! . 
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lao... and to think I was watching a classically trained dance troupe.
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