ATLANTA—Shen Yun Performing Arts has a history with Atlanta. The company gave one of its first performances here in December 2006, and people came from around the region to see it. Some dancers and musicians in the company are former Atlantans. The Atlanta City Council honored the company by proclaiming August 21 “Shen Yun Performance Day.”

As so often happens, the audience broke into applause repeatedly during spectacular moments during the dances.

Mr. Peterson's corporation provides services to arts groups, including the Woodruff Arts Center, home to the Atlanta Symphony and the Alliance Theater. He brought friends from out of town to the matinee performance. Born in Japan, he like Asian culture. He said he brought his friends so they could experience "something different." He said the show had "beautiful colors, great dance. I love it, it's very good."

Mr. Peterson said he felt The Epoch Times was doing a good thing by sponsoring Shen Yun.

The Cobb Energy Centre hosted Shen Yun International Company for the fifth time on Saturday. The Centre is home to the Atlanta Opera, and was designed for the best possible acoustics and air quality. Marble floors, Murano glass chandeliers, and a silver leaf mural of the nine muses create an opulent feeling. The artists presented the “Masterpiece Collection” of dances and music from its four seasons.

This city is famous around the word, for a curious mixture of things. Coca Cola and the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Gone with the Wind and Morehouse College, Spike Lee and the 1996 Olympics are all things people think of when they think of Atlanta. General Sherman burned it to the ground during the Civil War, so its symbol is the phoenix. Ted Turner started CNN here and revolutionized broadcast news.

To the east sits Stone Mountain, a solid piece of granite estimated to be 350 million years old. A city was here hundreds of years before anyone thought of America. The Chattahoochee River allows Atlanta to exist, just at it allowed the Pre-Columbian Cherokee city to exist. Cobb Energy Centre is on high ground near the river, a little north of Atlanta.

The next show is in Westchester, New York on August 22. For more information, visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org

The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts

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