“Really, really amazing, and you can see the soul,” said Ms. Trupeljak-Bujanić, who has performed with the Croatian National Ballet for more than three decades.

“Not skills, like more soul,” she said. “You can always see who is, maybe, longer dancing, more experience, because then you can see that they are dancing with their soul, not with their body.”

Ms. Trupeljak-Bujanić noted the expressive nature of classical Chinese dance, which lends itself to storytelling and requires the dancers to play many different roles on stage as story-based dances took audiences through a 5,000-year journey.

“To change immediately the expression ... you’re a completely different person,” she said. “I think that they’re perfect.”

Like many audience members, Ms. Trupeljak-Bujanić was impressed with the way the dancers were perfectly in sync but explained that this was truly a challenge and an exceptional feat.

“You can see that this is an organization, that they all breathe together,” she said.

“I think that this is the most important, and this is the only language in the world ... the art language” to convey their message, she said. “It’s better to show your opinion and your soul with dancing and music, and literature, and art, than with war and weapons.”