“We’re really enjoying the performance,” said Mark Outlaw, a retired pastor. “I love the color. I love the quality of the dancing. The themes really jump out at you, from Heaven to Earth and from Earth back to Heaven. And it’s really, really fabulous.”
Andy Toole, a retired business owner, said: “I really enjoyed the quality of the dancing, and especially the way there was interaction between the screen and the dancers and how they went back and forth. I thought that was amazing.”
“It’s like a breath of fresh air in today’s society. So I was really happy to see that. The costumes were gorgeous,” said Kelly Wolfsheimer, an English professor at Georgia Southern University.
“It’s a good message of a reminder of not just traditions in China, but traditions everywhere,” Ms. Wolfsheimer added. “I feel like that kids today don’t have a good historical understanding of the way things were, and I feel like this is a very non-threatening way to just show the culture of China, but also a reminder of our culture and cultures everywhere else and what’s happening to the world.”
Each performance also presents themes of spirituality and faith—values that are found at the origins of traditional Chinese culture.
Walter Scott, a company CEO, said: “It’s interesting to learn about different cultures and see how, actually, we all relate. It doesn’t matter what culture we are, there is a connectivity, and that is the Divine.”
“A couple of the dances particularly deal with the spiritual component, good and evil,” said Mr. Outlaw. “There’s good versus evil in a couple of them. And that comes out really, because the evil, those guys are dressed in black, and the good, they’re very innocent-looking and good, but in each one, good is overcoming evil. So that’s always a good thing.”
