BENDIGO, Australia—Andrew Bolton gifted Shen Yun Performing Arts tickets to his wife for Christmas, and on Saturday afternoon, the couple were finally treated to the celebration of Chinese culture that has become synonymous with Shen Yun as curtains opened in Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre.

His wife, Lisa Alford, a fundraising coordinator for RSPCA, nurtured a new appreciation after learning about all the different cultures from the different areas of China from New York-based Shen Yun’s dances, stories, and live orchestra.

“It’s really interesting. It’s stunning,” she said of the world’s premier classical Chinese dance production.

“I think that the we totally believe in the same concept of the divine and we are the creations of God,” he expressed.

“This message of the divine is very important to be spread across the globe—to all the people,” he said. “People are losing their connection with their origin and ignorance is spreading; people do not know where they come from—and they think they are just random beings in this planet for some time. But they are divine beings.

“All of us are divine beings, and it is very important to spread this message.”

“It opens the gateway for them to learn more about how they are also divine beings and how they can merge back to the divine and leave this mess behind,” he said, noting the uncertainty troubling people due to the current state of the world.

He had only words of praise for Shen Yun and its mission to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture.

“It was top of the world, more than I could expect. I haven’t seen any live performance of this quality,” he said.

“It was a mesmerising show, very vibrant, very colourful. I haven’t seen any show like this before in my life—I really loved it.”