“They’re synchronized with the music, with the video in the background [digital backdrop]. And they synchronized altogether. So you can tell a lot of work and preparation went behind this program.”

“We like the live music, the orchestra—it just goes very well.”

“Myself being Greek, we were under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years. So we understand oppression. When you see these people who want to be free, who want to worship the God that they want to worship, and then someone comes and says you cannot and they blind you. This is why Shen Yun is allowed in the United States. Because we have these freedoms—we take it for granted.”