“It’s perfect,” said Mr. Ludwig, who was a music professor in Brazil before moving to the United States.  “The [synchronization] between everything is perfect.”

“I love it, it was wonderful,” she said.

The two saw Shen Yun a the Woodruff Arts Center on Jan. 8.

“It’s not [so] simple being expressive on the stage, so for me, it was amazing, fascinating,” she said.

“The sync between the dancers was amazing, perfect. And the choreography, it’s wonderful to see the dancers’ presentations.”

“I can feel it during the music and the dances all the time. I can feel the culture behind it, behind everything,” he said. “I love it.”

As a musician, he said he could appreciate the hard work that the musicians in Shen Yun had to put in to be able to perform at this caliber.  He said he was also impressed that the production featured its own original compositions to accompany the dances.

“Hard work [went] behind this,” he said.

“We feel like they are together in their minds. Not just going, ‘no this is my part, and I will do this,’ but, ‘all of us will do this,’” she said.