SYDNEY, Australia—Award-winning chiropractor Dr. Rosemarie Jabbour was amazed by Shen Yun Performing Arts’ depiction of China’s ancient spiritual heritage and how the performance conveyed a message of hope for the modern world.

Dr. Jabbour, who is the owner of New World Chiro in Sydney and a recipient of a 2004 “Most Outstanding Service to Chiropractic” award, was particularly impressed by the artistry, dancing, and cultural insights of the New York-based Shen Yun.

“Whatever you want to believe in, whatever culture you’re from, there is something out there, and something [is] looking after us. So this is not the end for us. There is something better for us,” she said, on how some of the scenes depicted a continuation of life after death.

“I think it’s shocking that people cannot see this [in China]. It’s actually against human rights. And something should be done about this because everyone deserves to see this because it does give people hope,” Dr. Jabbour said.

“It depicts what’s happening in the world today and how we need to have hope and we need to help each other to move forward and be happy in our lives. That was very emotional to me,” she said.

For Gin Niang, an enterprise resource planning manager at Seven West Media, the company’s mission is important for the younger generation, who he said might not have learned the real history of China.

“It’s good to spread the awareness [of traditional Chinese culture],” Mr. Niang said, adding that the younger generation get most of their knowledge from the internet these day, but encouraged people to come out and see that culture and history “in real life” in a Shen Yun performance.

“People dancing and expressing their story. This is very interesting,” he added.

Patricia Goncalves, the director of stewardship for the Seventh Day Adventist Church, was impressed by the array of colours on stage, such as the orange sleeves, as well as the acrobatics and musical instruments.

Ms. Goncalves also drew some similarities between Christianity and ancient Chinese culture.

“It was very interesting because I could relate a little bit of the spirituality of the Chinese beliefs and also the Christian beliefs as well,” Ms. Goncalves said, adding that in the opening scene, “God” came into her mind where divine beings travelled down to the human world with the Creator.

However, through a series of campaigns such as the cultural revolution, the Chinese Communist Party sought to systematically uproot traditional beliefs, bringing 5,000 years of civilisation to the verge of extinction. This was concerning for Ms. Goncalves.

Ms. Goncalves resonated with the scene from modern-day China depicting Falun Dafa practitioners being persecuted for their beliefs. Despite the tragedy contained in the scene, she was amazed by the uplifting ending to the story, saying everything worked out positively for “those with compassion and kindness in their heart” and for those who “truly believe in God.”