“Hopefully, people are more respective of the spiritual side of things that people hold closely. My hope is that someday, we'll see more and more freedoms in China too,” said Paul Clarke, owner of a real estate business.

Mr. Clarke shared that he wasn’t surprised to learn of Shen Yun being censored.

“It doesn’t surprise me. It’s great that they’re here, telling the story and getting it out. It wouldn’t surprise me if we see similar things happening in the US before long. It seems to me moving in that direction here too, which is sad. We’re losing a lot of freedoms-not as bad as you have it in China though. I hope we don’t go that bad here,” he said.

“It’s been great. I can tell they put hours and hours into working at the dance and the music coordinating [with] the screen. Timing the screen effects with the dance is really amazing—very impressive,” said Mr. Clarke.

“I can relate to it. I’m a Christian, so there are some similarities there; the Creator coming to save people—it’s similar to my beliefs as a Christian—a little different, but very close. It’s interesting to me that around the world, there’s very similar one God, one Creator, one savior coming,” he said.