“We were reading through the program and then we were listening to some of the pre-show talk about how they’re depicting a lot of concepts around the divine, and how humans have originated from a divine place,” Ms. Pham said.
After the performance, Ms. Pham expounded on her feelings around these concepts.
“I think that just those themes, especially right now given everything that’s going on in the world, are just very relevant,” she said. “I think a lot of people are going through their own kind of spiritual awakening.”
“The fact that something like this show can be put on, especially given the very little that we know about Chinese culture, I think that unifies us, and I feel like it gives hope that something like this can still happen, that people can still come together and tell a story about spirituality and they can tell stories from different regions and ethnicities from China, from anywhere,” she said.
“If people can come together and put together an amazing show for us, I feel like the world can go on. Maybe we should be uniting over some story that’s different than the narrative that’s been told,” she continued.
“As a country, we’re very focused on what’s going on here. But having an open mind and an open heart, and being able to look beyond not just our culture but into other cultures, and also something beyond us that [is] spiritual ... maybe thinking about something that is divine, and maybe we’re divine.”
