Shen Yun Atsauksme: Megan Johnson, ballerina and dance instructor, Georgia Academy of Dance & the Performing Arts

“I love classical Chinese dance. I've never seen anything like this which amazes me. We have internet and access but I've still never seen it, so for the first time seen it, I am very excited, that there are things that my mind never thought to use in dance. It is very creative and just beautiful... Because I taught and I dance, it is very hard to get dancers perfectly in a line, or doing exact movement with their hands. Everyone is very different, so getting them to match is really difficult. To see everyone so precisely together and just moving, everyone has beautiful expression, their technique was just flawless. That’s hard to beat that... You can't fake passion. You can work very hard to get the lines and the technique, but what comes from the soul you can't fake, you can't practice; it just is. I love it they explain what the name means, and that is the divine beings expressing through their soul, that’s beautiful, it just is, it’s from within...”