“This is the high essence of freedom. These people have flexibility of movement, flexibility of thought, flexibility of dance, and it’s unfortunate, if I heard the narrator right, they are not allowed to do this dance anywhere in China,” said Mr. Hansen.

Crystal Dwyer Hansen, an international speaker, researcher, corporate consultant, author, and entrepreneur, is familiar with present-day China and understood the challenges people of belief have in China.

“We have traveled to China a lot. We find the people to be so delightful and very loving, kind, compassionate, and spiritual, and I know that they struggle with their government. They don’t like communism, it’s not in alignment with their beliefs or any natural human expression,” Mrs. Hansen said.

Mr. Hansen shared his appreciation for Shen Yun’s depiction of creation and the vastness of the universe.

“This is epic, because it’s teaching the cosmogony and the cosmology and epistemology of a great religion that is integrated to the world. That’s why the whole world receives this with open arms. [We’re] not only loving the choreography, but understanding the essence of God within and going up to the consciousness of God.”

Chinese culture and religion has a history of 5,000 years. With such a long history, there is something that everyone can relate to.

“It’s honestly very similar—like the Creator. Buddha is the avatar of the Creator like Jesus is our avatar of our Creator, it’s very similar, and I just really love that,” Mrs. Hansen said.

“We just enjoyed the show tremendously. The precision and the talent, the coordination was so beautiful,” said Mrs. Hansen.

“The choreography and the costuming was beyond anything I’ve ever seen before. It was interesting to find out just the whole history of the acrobats and the gymnastics, that some of those things have been borrowed from ancient Chinese dance.”

“Every year we’re like, ”We’re going to go, we’re going to go,“ and so we’re glad we’re finally here,” Mrs. Hansen said.