After seeing the performance at London’s Eventim Apollo, Jimi Tihofsi said: “It’s magical! You don’t think it’s real!”

“You really think it’s a film because of the movement that they have, the way they have connected with the backdrop, and the way they connect both of them together. Honestly, you think this is not real,” Mr. Tihofsi said, adding, “Everyone should watch it.”

“There is something special about their body, about their mind, and the way they move, the way they dance with the music,” he said.

Mr. Tihofsi said the show brought him closer to Chinese civilization. “I haven’t been to China. ... It just brings China to me,” he said.

“I grew up in former Yugoslavia. I know what it means when certain ideas and beliefs are suppressed and art, in general, is censored. So I know how that feels—it’s sad,” he said.

Originally from Kosovo, Mr. Tihofsi wrote and produced the acclaimed film “Kesulat,” which depicted the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s.

He said it is sad that “you have to come to London to see something so Chinese.”

“I’m lucky to see it, so I’m sorry to all the Chinese that can’t see it,” he said.