“It was incredible. It was a wonderful manifestation of arts and spirituality. It all came together with thousands of years of tradition, expressed in modern form.”

“I enjoyed the traditional stories. There were some of them were sad of course. And some of them were funny. It was nice to have the comic relief.”

“I think that, to me, it seems like an important thing here is that, they [the performance] are expressing the oppression in China. And I think for American audiences, it is healthy for us to see that the freedoms that we take for granted, are not granted in a country that rules a billion people.”