DALLAS—Naomi Simons and Lane Cawthans watched the world-renowned Shen Yun Performing Arts show on Saturday evening at the Music Hall at Fair Park.

"I loved the dancing and the costumes they were so colorful, very beautiful," said Ms. Simons after watching the show.

Ms. Simons works for the U.S. government as an aviation inspector and is also a dancer. She is currently specializing in belly-dancing but has had experience in many different types of dances including modern jazz, hip hop, Tahitian, and African dance. She also was employed by Walt Disney World at one point as a dancer, staging mainly modern jazz performances.

Offering her opinion of the Shen Yun's masterfully choreographed dances, Ms. Simons marveled at the creativity of the fantastic dance performances and said the performers were incredibly talented.

"Very artistic; some of the moves where just amazing how flexible they are and just graceful, very graceful that they were. So I was impressed," she said, adding that the choreography in the dances was brilliant.

Although Ms. Simons has danced for many years, this was the first time she witnessed classical Chinese dance, and she found it very beautiful.

She said she liked the sense of the "flow of energy through the body, I got a sense of that from the dance movements."

Ms. Simons also found the colors in the show very beautiful, vibrant, and bright and applauded the use of props.

"It was very interesting, was very colorful, very creative."

The theme of the show was also very moving, Ms. Simons said, and the performances depicting the persecution of a peaceful meditation exercise, Falun Gong, by the communist regime in China were very moving as well. She said she would describe the show as beautiful artistry.

Mr. Cawthans, a chiropractor, said he also enjoyed the show and said the performance had a lot of variety.

"I appreciate that the skill that they have, to accomplish the movements that they did," Mr. Cawthans said, who also practices martial arts and plays a little bit of music as a hobby.

"I thought that the colors and the forms that they used were beautiful," he said.

The Shen Yun International Company will next go to Springfield, Illinois to perform one show on Tuesday Feb. 9.

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