QUEBEC CITY, Canada—Shen Yun Performing Arts took the stage for one evening at the Grand Théâtre de Québec in Quebec City on Jan. 31, and in the audience was Jean-Claude Regy, who was left thoroughly inspired.

“I think that culture, dance, music must work in the sense of giving man a new hope and I think that the show is the carrier of this message.”

New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and since its inception in 2006 has become a global phenomenon. Using the universal language of music and dance, it seeks to “revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization” and show audiences the beauty of “China before communism.” Profound takeaways such as Mr. Regy’s are not uncommon.

“For me, they were multi-coloured butterflies that burst in the space of this theatre of Quebec,” he said.

“So that’s why I hope that this show can last in time, and bring to young people this reflection that the world must change and that we can’t be in a world without spirituality,” he said.

“We have entered a world where communication ... is done through an electronic and digital element, let’s say, and [people] don’t talk to each other anymore, or we talk to each other through that, and so I find it very harmful. We must know how to use technology, to give it a balance with life and nature. Without nature we can’t live,” he said.

“I think that there are painters and sculptors, photographers and musicians, who work in the world in this spirit,” Mr. Regy added. “We find that there are messages that pass on the beauty of the being in general, of humanity.”

“The Divine appears, and I think that each individual has a Divine in him because the DNA is what is transmitted to man, and for that we can say that we are infinite,” he said.