SACRAMENTO—Shen Yun Performing Arts has attracted many celebrities to its shows, including Konstantin Lobodovsky, a leading authority of energy engineering and his author wife Barbara, who penned her famous husband’s biography.

Both of them now retired, were enjoying the world premier classical Chinese dance and music showcase, at the Sacramento Community Center Theater on Sunday afternoon, July 18.

Mr. Lobodovsky was born in 1937 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. He lived in Dalian, Liaoning, for many years, his earlier life recorded by his wife in her book Pa, Pa. Where Are You?

A former president of the United States Association of Energy Engineers, he was inducted into the engineer’s Hall of Fame in 1996. The association again honored him with the distinction of ‘Legends in Energy Professionals’ awarded in 2007.

In an appraisal of the exhilarating Shen Yun presentation, Mr. Lobodovsky said: “Beautiful."

His wife, Mrs. Lobodovsky truly appreciated the New York-based Shen Yun bringing ancient China’s divinely-inspired culture into the present for 21st century audiences to take in.

She was enthralled by exquisitely costumed artists, dancers, vocalists and solo musicians alike, choreographed to match digitally-enhanced backdrop scenes and story-based dances complemented by a full orchestral blend of Eastern and Western composition.

“This was the precision, the elegance, the spiritual thread that was running through the whole performance. It was magnificent,” Mrs. Lobodovsky enthused.

Her husband, in earlier years, used to be on the drill team in the army so “watching the precision so gracefully done and so beautifully done—it was remarkable,” she added.

She was delighted with each new scene that was revealed every time the curtain rose and fell

“I thought, ‘Oh wow, this is the best,’ and then another one would come.  … I think the thing that stands in my mind is the transition from the backdrops and how things came alive and went back into the backdrops and came forward. It was tremendous.”

She was grateful for being raised in a musical family that instilled in her at a young age a love for singing and for the classical performing arts.

“I enjoy these types of things, because they are kind of few and far between. So whenever we see something like this is available, we grab it.”

Mr. Lobodovsky summarized his thoughts in a few words. “It’s fantastic. ... Just perfect.”

His story, written by his wife, spans five decades of escapades in Manchuria, China, Sao Paulo, Brazil to finding freedom in America. The book was her first undertaking as a writer and she hopes to continue to write about her experiences as an American in the Russian community.

With reporting by Sound of Hope Radio Network and NTDTV.

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