ESCONDIDO, Calif.—Paul and Tammy Vedin felt Shen Yun Performing Arts was an experience they would be highly recommending after they attended themselves for the first time on March 13.

“ I love it. Honestly, I’ve got to say I love it. And this is something that you cannot miss, at least once in your lifetime. That is very true,” said Mr. Vedin, who works in property preservation. The couple attended New York-based Shen Yun’s opening night performance at California Center for the Arts, Escondido.

“I mean, this is something that it’s like you take forever and you keep it in your heart,” he said.

For Mrs. Vedin, it was an experience of many kinds of beauty.

“Amazing. It’s just so beautiful to watch them. They’re so graceful,” said Mrs. Vedin. “It was really amazing.”

“That’s it, that’s it, that was the best part when they would go in the screen and then come out,” Mrs. Vedin said. “So fluid. Just so graceful ... it was so beautiful.”

She also saw in the performance “the message of peace and unity.”

“I enjoyed that part too. It brought it all together with the peace message and then the spirituality of it. I love that,” she said.

“I think this is to the point where you make the culture revive,” he said. “And you keep it alive, and you keep the culture going.”

“It’s beautiful to see the traditions and the ethnic cultures of it that you can keep on passing it through generations,” he added. “It’s something that needs to be done and I see it as something that is just that’s very amazing that you have to keep it going.”

“As a Mexican-American, I love it,” he said. “I love the Chinese culture. It’s beautiful.”