Bogusław Woźniak, university teacher at the University of Warmia and Mazury, and director of the Academic Center for Culture and Promotion, was a dancer for almost 30 years. Mr. Woźniak praised the dancers’ “artistry, virtuosity, flawless technique and superb training—because to dance like this, you must practice for a very long time. I am aware of how much heart, love, and tremendous number of hours of work had to be put into it to dance like this.”

“If you’ve been doing something since you were a child or almost forever, and now you’ve got the great pleasure and opportunity to watch such great dancers, then it is doubly nice and really very, very pleasant,” he said.

He noted traditional Chinese culture “should certainly not be forgotten.”

In ancient China, the divine element was linked to all human activity, from art to ordinary activities. It inspired artists, philosophers, and permeated human daily life on all levels of society. When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, it saw this spiritual and artistic heritage as a threat to its atheistic ideology.

Shen Yun artists are returning to the roots, and from their performances emanates the spirituality of China’s divinely inspired culture.

“It’s certainly important for the Chinese people, and it’s important to all people who are spiritual. So, I am as much as possible [in favor of] culture combining these kinds of aspects,” said Mr. Olejniczak.

He added that he recommends the show “100 percent. It is worth getting acquainted with foreign culture. It is something that is certainly different from our [culture], and [it’s good to] simply appreciate it.”

“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen, in terms of dance quality, something like this. It was really interesting, well done, and really left a good impression,” he said.

According to Mr. Marek, Shen Yun’s mission can be of great value to modern man, “like cultivating every culture and every history. Because nowadays we are falling into a madness of a world where everything practically ceases to be different from each other.”

“The reference to the culture and how everything has evolved over these many thousands of years gives a beautiful overview of how we perceive [reality]. And [is showing] what are ... the real values,” Mr. Marek said.

He could see both the timeless values, such as those handed down from generation to generation, and those “temporary, invented for the needs of the moment—[created] depending on what period of development a civilization was in, or in relation to the regions where it was happening in the world. So, I am really impressed,” he noted.

He also pointed to the long-standing coexistence of Buddhism and Confucianism, which undoubtedly influenced Chinese culture and “built a unique thing.”

Mr. Pyskło said Shen Yun artists should continue their chosen path of telling the story of Chinese traditional culture, because it is “absolutely amazing” in their performance.