“I wouldn’t have missed it for the world,” said Mr. Hernandez. “It is an awesome show. It’s … absolutely exhilarating. I would recommend the show to everybody.”

“[It] was very, very sad to me,” he said. “That was a little too overwhelming. It’s very sad to think that that is actually still occurring.”

“It has to be revealed,” he said, referring to the persecution. “It has to be dealt with. It can no longer go on. It’s too demoralizing for the Chinese people to have to have to go through something that traumatic after having such a long history of beautiful arts and beautiful culture; to be almost decimated, in a sense.”

Referring to the depiction of the Chinese Communist Party’s dealings, he said, “I think that they are definitely the showcase of what none of us want to be attributed to.”

Mr. Hernandez said he could connect with the concept of a Creator.

“I feel very connected,” he said. “We have to get back to understanding what it is to be part of the Creator.”

“I think that seeing what’s going on, what China is going through, and what American could fall into, into that Marxist, communist trap. I think they (Shen Yun) are presenting it to us and we have to react, we have to not allow something like that to infect the rest of the world,” Mr. Hernandez said.

To Shen Yun’s performers, Mr. Hernandez would like to say, “Keep it up. More people have got to see it … That flame has got to be sparked in the audience, and it has to continue.”