He said this was a new experience. “I’m just so new to that kind of dance, that it’s a spectacle and so I really enjoy the uniqueness of the expression I’ve never seen that before.”

In fact, one of the story-based dances in the program showed the plight of Chinese who hold onto their faith and traditional values under the Chinese Communist Party’s regime.

“That hit home as far as how fortunate we are here in America. It makes you feel privileged to live in a free society. [We don’t have] the strife and struggle others are experiencing throughout the world. We are secluded from that and don’t think about it very much but this reawakens those thoughts,” Mr. O'Bold shared.

“I especially appreciated the spiritual, divine connection. You know, right now you don’t see that in China. But there is a connection with every human being, a spiritual component in that the culture right now does not emphasize. I really appreciated the ancient recognition of divinity, even in Creation, and a God of gods, and those types of concepts,” he said.

The divine Creator is “what brings us all together isn’t it? He created all beings to be equal, yet to serve along with him,” Mr. O'Bold said. “So l love those parallels to the way I believe, as well.”