GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Bill Satek, a general manager of a power plant, and his wife Kim Satek, an accountant, drove two hours to see Shen Yun Performing Arts at the DeVos Performance Hall on Feb. 21. The couple deemed the trip absolutely worth their time.

“It’s fabulous,” said Mr. Satek. “It’s really good. I love it. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this. I just love the energy and the choreography. It’s just phenomenal.”

Mr. Satek was delightfully surprised by this portrayal.

“I love it that they’re going to their traditional values and they’re going back to the Creator and that they come out of the sky,” he said. “It was just fabulous. I didn’t expect that.”

Also in the audience was John Booy, a school superintendent. Mr. Booy said that he “really enjoyed learning about more about the history and the culture.”

“I think the themes of courage and truth—those kind of values, of course, are important for education. And I think just the universal nature of the reference to the Creator, which we all look to, and the Creator’s original purposes of creating Earth in terms of truth, and justice, and all of that. Those things just came through really well.”

“The message is very important,” said Mr. Booy. “The universalness of the message is really needed, and it’s really strong.”