“The stories and everything take you in, and it’s really quite magical, and it’s really heartfelt, too. You feel the story all the way through it,” said Mr. Krupka at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 17.

“It’s all of it,“ he added, trying to explain the source of the magic. ”It is the art, history of it all, and the flowy-ness of it ... the dance is quietly pulling you into the story. And the orchestra chimes in on it to kind of give it that magic at the right times. Like a stroke to your heart.”

“You actually feel the story and then the magic,” he said.

Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, and has become a global phenomenon since it was established in New York in 2006.

Through music and dance, Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.

“It’s the old culture that we don’t see,” Mr. Krupka said, appreciative of Shen Yun’s mission.

“The history of it, and it’s been forgotten, in with the rush of everything in today’s society. And to be able to bring that back, it brings back a teaching, too, which we are missing.”

Mr. Krupka said the heartfelt nature with which the artists approached their art was conveyed. He felt their intentions, and thought it delivered a message sorely needed in our times.

“Their love for what they are doing is very relevant. They stay with the mission—I think it is very beautiful,” he said. “It’s a performance, but it is the culture that you are bringing to us, and that’s been a blessing just in and of itself, is just to bring the culture of the past, that’s been lost, to us, in this present. We need this.”

“I think we need it. I know that we need it. Our culture is, today’s society is getting all lost in too many things, and there’s too many things going on that,” he said.