DALLAS—For Laura Ainsworth and Pat Reeder, what Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to them isn’t just great arts but also a powerful message that they want to support, so much that they have become repeat patrons of Shen Yun shows over the years. On Jan. 25, together with Laura’s sister Julianne Thorne, they watched Shen Yun again at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas.

“This is our fourth time [watching Shen Yun],” Mr. Reeder said. “We love everything about it, the music, the dancing, the costumes, the colors, the screens, the special effects, it’s amazing! It all just comes together.”

Ms. Ainsworth appreciates Shen Yun’s revival of the culture, she said, “The fact that this is a tradition that has been preserved through the centuries, and that without [Shen Yun], it might just die away. And yet here it is for us to see. I’m very grateful for that.”

Both Ms. Ainsworth and Mr. Reeder are writers. “We write for Mike Huckabee, for his newsletter and television show, he was appointed ambassador to Israel,” said Mr. Reeder.

They said they thought that it was important to support Shen Yun, “Another thing that’s important to us, too, is that we want to support this because of China, what’s happening now in China. We want to support [Shen Yun] very much.”

Mr. Reeder said, “I like the fact that it has a message of sort of protesting what’s happening in China now, the crackdown on individual freedom, religious freedom. That’s something very important to us. We write about it a lot in our work, and that’s why I’m happy that we come here and support things. I buy things from the concession stand. We support in any way we can.”

Ms. Ainsworth added, “We know there has been a lot of suppression or at least an attempt of suppression [outside China], like in South Korea and even in the United States.” Therefore, she said, the Shen Yun artists’ dedication is something worthy of their support.

Julianne Thorne, a retired real estate broker, had one word to describe the show, “otherworldly.”