“It’s been an absolutely incredible experience so far, I’m here with my work colleague and our two daughters, and they’re absolutely loving it,” Ms. Thompson said during the intermission at the Adelaide Festival Centre on May 13. “It’s quite overwhelming and emotional, and it’s just an absolutely beautiful performance.”

“It is very emotional,” Ms. Thompson said of a dance piece titled “Insanity During the End of Days.”

Based on true events in China, the dance piece tells of how the CCP has killed Falun Gong practitioners for their organs to supply China’s transplant industry. The performance also conveys the courage of people of faith amid the brutal persecution. Organ harvesting crimes under the communist regime have been documented since 2006.

“There are Chinese performers here who are also probably putting themselves on the line a little bit to be performing in this space,” Ms. Thompson reflected, adding, “it’s sad and emotional that they aren’t able to embrace this part of their culture at home in China.”

“It’s very new to me,” she continued. “I think there’s plenty of Australians and other people all around the world that aren’t aware of this part of the Chinese culture, so it’s really important that we know what’s going on.”

Jamie Webster, a music conductor and ethnomusicologist, came back to watch Shen Yun for the second time with her daughter Zora.

“Just perfection! Just so well brought together in unified execution of all the movements,” she said on May 13. “But also, combinations of all the arts, technology, and colour, costume and artistry, dance and music [were] beautifully brought together.”

Ms. Webster, who is classically-trained and conducts choral ensembles in Portland, Oregon, and South Australia, was wonderfully surprised by the soprano singer.

“What a crystalline voice she has, that was just lovely,” she said. “I don’t know everything about Chinese classical singing. So I don’t know where the line is between Western classical and Chinese classical, but that was just breathtaking.”

Ms. Webster believes all great art has to say something and provoke the audience to think and be aware of the world.

Rupinderdeep Kaur, the President of India Australia Strategic Alliance and lecturer at the University of South Australia, said it was “amazing” to see all the different types of cultures from China’s different regions.

“We could relate because ... We belong to a place where and we have got different languages, different costumes. Where you cross the border [and] the language changes, the costume changes,” she said. “We could see that in China as well.”

Ms. Kaur became aware of how spiritually rich traditional Chinese culture is through Shen Yun and said the company’s mission—to revive genuine traditional culture from China’s 5,000 year old civilisation—is “a really good mission.”