PERTH, Australia—City of Bayswater Councillor Sally Palmer thanked Shen Yun Performing Arts for coming “all the way from New York” to perform in Australia, as she enjoyed the performance at His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth on Wednesday.

She said that Shen Yun and the stories it shares are not just promoting music, song, and dance but a whole spiritual culture. “It’s very beautiful … very beautiful indeed.”

However, in modern times, since the atheist communist regime took power, such traditional beliefs—centered on the idea of harmony between Heaven and Earth—have been systematically uprooted because the ruling ideology sees spirituality as a threat to its existence, as has been the case in other countries infected by communist thought.

“It was really good to see you bring forth exactly what’s going on and exactly why you need the Western world to be hopeful with you in bringing that spirituality and 5,000 years back into play,” Ms. Palmer said.

She added that she would now go and tell her fellow council members about her experience. “I think [Shen Yun] explained so well in how Buddhism and the light of life can be brought back to earth and then back to heaven. I thought that was absolutely marvellous,” she said.

The councillor added that just like in China, in modern Western society, we hardly see people talking about heaven and spirituality anymore.

“You can watch television all day, and you won’t see it,” she lamented. “But we did see it here, and I was very happy to take part of that.”

“We all sat there listening, taking it in, understanding, and we all left, I think, as better people.”

“They seem to be genuinely dancing for good reason, not just doing it methodically but with spirit, and I think that is really, really good,” she said.

Shen Yun’s eight companies tour the world with an all-new production each year.

“I really hope that you come back again,” Ms. Palmer said of Perth.