“I know about the mission because I was reading about it, I think it’s very valid. I think people should see this as something that they should do themselves, you know, when you believe in something that’s going away or dying—this is a culture that has been fighting and was almost extinct and to my understanding, in order to make a revival again there was this group that got together and started dancing in New York,” said Ana. “And I think it’s amazing. I think they are getting somewhere.”

“It’s something special. Something special,” Steven added.

“They are on top of every single detail, it’s amazing,” she said.

It was less serious than one might expect from a two-hour performance that spans 5,000 years—Ana enjoyed the humorous narratives and comedic characters peppered throughout the stories.

Steven shared that the performance gave them both food for thought, and there was a lot they would read up on having now been introduced to via the performance.

“It’s really nice to be able to have the performance, to be able to see this and be exposed to the culture of China. So I think it really opens us up to some other history that may have happened in different parts of the world, and it gives us a further appreciation for humankind,” he said.