WASHINGTON, D.C.—Hilda McIntosh, former gala chair for the Women’s Committee for the Washington Performing Arts, felt the artists of Shen Yun Performing Arts reached heights in their art that was beyond visual enjoyment and uplifted the audience along with them.

Ms. McIntosh and her friend Moss Kendrix, a retired Colonel with the U.S. Air Force, saw Shen Yun’s last performance at the Kennedy Center this season on March 3.

“It was excellent. And very smooth. And very graceful,” Mr. Moss said. “I was so impressed with the gracefulness of the ladies in particular. And the performance of the men, they were very, very good. And I wish I could still do that, but I am 84 years old, so.”

“It was, in general, a magnificent performance,” Ms. McIntosh said.

“It was a powerful show. Powerful,” Mr. Moss added. “That’s the word,” Ms. McIntosh agreed.

Ms. McIntosh felt Shen Yun’s art spoke powerfully to the audience, and her own takeaway was to “live with a great spirit.”

“We’re in a very difficult time, and this will take us to greater heights,” she said. “Of living a brighter, higher level of life.”

She found in the performance “great hope.”

“For living a better life, a better being, a better planet,” she added.