PARIS—On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Armistice, the Palais des Congrès was honored to welcome Shen Yun for the end of its 2025 tour.

Bruno Chambrillon has headed the Hermès Communication agency for over 30 years. This specialist in corporate and community communications came to experience Shen Yun on Wednesday, May 7.

“I really enjoyed the show! It’s fascinating and politically interesting,” Mr. Chambrillon said. “It’s absolute precision, beautiful dances, and everything you can think of about China and the quality of gymnastics and dance.”

Shen Yun means “the beauty of divine beings dancing.” Based in New York, the company presents the true traditional Chinese culture of 5,000 years of history, bequeathed by the divinities to the ancient Chinese. In the past, China was known by names such as the “Land of the Divine.”

For Mr. Chambrillon, Shen Yun’s technology is inspiring and bolsters this connection to the divine: “The combination of the show on stage and the images behind it, the connection that there was all the time was of the highest quality and allowed us to project ourselves effectively into the heavens and into the divine.”

The spirituality present in Shen Yun’s danced and sung production is “very important,” he added. “In France, we’re very sensitive to the link with religion, because we’re in a country with a religious tradition.”

For Mr. Chambrillon, Shen Yun “can open up the minds of many people and allow another approach to China in particular, and to the Chinese art world, which we don’t always see in this way.”

Alexandre Edelstein’s goal is to revive the Pinder circus. After a seven-year absence following a court-ordered liquidation, the famous circus has resumed touring the roads of France, thanks to the grandson of Gilbert Edelstein, the circus’s historic owner. In 2018, after a 60 percent drop in sales, the circus had to part with its artists and animals. The year 2025 saw the return of jugglers, trapeze artists, and clowns, but without the animals that were the subject of controversy in 2018.

On Wednesday, Mr. Edelstein went to the Palais des Congrès with his grandmother Andrée, widow of Gilbert Edelstein, to discover Shen Yun.

“A very fine show! A lot of dance, a lot of culture in this show; we are able to retrace the history of China and learn a lot, particularly about instruments, myths, and many stories that we don’t necessarily know,” Mr. Edelstein said. “All this with the rhythm of a sublime orchestra. So, a magnificent show!”

Considering Shen Yun’s artistic level “perfect,” Mr. Edelstein said eh discovered “artists who are absolutely extraordinary ... exceptional! With technical prowess that is very, very impressive, and above all a harmony that is perfect.”

He enjoyed seeing “many pieces that correspond precisely to divine art, and many pieces about religion and Chinese culture.”

“A lot of the scenes focus on compassion for others. We’ve seen several that talk about that, and you can feel all the emotion in the performers onstage.”

The performance specialist was able to identify one of the most extraordinary aspects of Chinese classical dance: the dancers’ expression of yun, the ability to express their deepest emotions through movement.

For Mr. Edelstein, Shen Yun is “a combination of traditions, values, culture and history.”

“And to have incorporated digital technology into this show, and to have allowed the artists to blend into the digital world, is great, and I think it’s a very good innovation. In any case, we blend perfectly into the setting through modern history and also the past.”

Jean-Marie Gilles “came especially” from Belgium to see Shen Yun.

“It’s extremely delicate and remarkably together,” said Mr. Gilles, a former engineer-constructor and company director. “It’s really very ancient Chinese culture that’s respected.”

“These are dancers of fine quality, but above all with an overall outstanding execution and discipline. You can really feel that all these artists are truly great performers.”

“Everything is done in a group, and the focus is not exclusively on the individual, but on the group,” Mr. Gilles said.

The entrepreneur was able to feel the connection to the divine through “the profound inspiration. Yes, it’s obvious.”

Mr. Gilles praised the presence of spirituality at the heart of Shen Yun: “In all of today’s international civilization, we sense very, very clearly that there is a very deep-seated search on the part of people for a return to divinities, to a belief, to a conviction.”

The former company director sees Shen Yun as “a return to perfection, a return to basics.”