Georgia Lane, the president of Women of Influence, said that “the dance, singing, everything combined, is quite amazing.”
“It’s beautiful, so bright and colorful and full of energy,” said Shelley Curtis, a councillor for the City of Gold Coast, Division 4.
Dr. John Kearney, a surgeon said that “I think the resurrection of the culture in this dance form is really important to the spirit of the Chinese and to the rest of the world.”
“In the West, I think we see what we see on TV, what people want to put out, and we don’t really understand necessarily, the deeper culture and the deeper meaning of what China’s culture is,” said Andrew Huntley, an IT manager. “That it is far older and far deeper than what we see from the last 100 years.”
Ms. Lane said: “I think there’s obviously a very deep running culture and a message that they want to relay. And there’s obviously a lot of dedication from all the dancers, something that’s very well lived and I’m just really inspired. It’s amazing.”
Anthony Torbey, the Honorary Consul for Lebanon at the Lebanese Consulate of Queensland, said: “It was very interesting. The history of where it came from, back in ancient Chinese dance, and how [it] developed over the years.”
“You’ve got a 5,000-year-old culture that’s been suppressed to the point you can’t even exist in China, and exists outside of China. We obviously know the issues around that, and trying to reintegrate that is going to be a challenge,” said David Finn, a legal consultant.
Reverend Elie Francis of St. Clement Catholic Church said “my soul is flowing and listening to this beautiful music, and see, that we are all the same on Earth. Whatever is our culture, whatever is our faith or religion, we are all one in one Creator in Heaven.”
Lynne Benzie, the president of Village Roadshow Studios, said: “Performing arts is very, very important, even to the local community in Australia, but worldwide. And I think, to get the opportunity for people to see this culture. I think it is really, really important to understand it and what it means to many, many people."
