SEATTLE, Washington—Even before attending Shen Yun Performing Arts at Seattle’s Marion Oliver McGaw Hall, Chelsea Coryell and her niece Pierce knew they were going to see “the best of the best.” Pierce said she heard that Shen Yun was performing in Seattle while she was in Texas, some 3,000 miles away, and she knew she had to attend. “It was absolutely beautiful,” said Coryell, the owner of an interior design studio and store. “[The performers were] athletic, and it was creative and beautiful to the eyes. I was smiling ear to ear the whole night.” Shen Yun’s mission is to revive China’s 5,000-year-old traditional culture through classical and ethnic dances and music. The New York-based performing arts company says it hopes to restore a culture destroyed after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. Coryell said the music and dancing were perfect, and that Shen Yun’s dancers exuded …
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