“This isn’t normally something I would come to, but I left here thinking that I want this to be a family tradition because I want them to see a different type of culture and a different type of hope,” said Katherine Schmit, a regional IT manager.

Schmit said that if she could, she would, “ask them about their discipline, I would ask them, what led them to that type of discipline? And does that discipline bring them hope personally?”

“I think that the energy comes from the belief in the dancers and in the performers that they truly believe in the things that they’re doing. And they truly want to emanate that belief and help other people find hope and find peace and tranquility,” she elaborated.

“I was just having a conversation with someone who was of a different faith. They were Christian. And this is Buddha. And we were just talking about the similarities. It’s refreshing to see the similarities between the religions, where there’s a Creator, and there’s divineness in each of us and there’s good,” Schmit said.

“I loved the last scene, where everybody’s so busy with their technology, lives, and things like that. But if we just look up, we can all see the good in each other, and the divineness in each other.”

As someone who has experienced other performances, she was happy to share that Shen Yun “was just stunning. It was captivating. It was magical, filled with grace and light.”