“Extraordinary, exemplary performance,” Ms. Jididi exclaimed. “The quality, the serenity, the way it spoke to you—basically, there wasn’t even one single word spoken in the performance, but through music and movements, it beautifully told the story.”

“It was quite relaxing, and you would think it’s speaking to your soul. I, personally, was sitting there embracing that with every cell in my body. That was amazing.”

New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts was founded in 2006 by elite Chinese artists who had fled persecution by the communist regime.

For 5,000 years, China’s civilization flourished under the shared belief that the divine will bless those who uphold traditional moral values. Tragically, within just a few decades of the communist party’s violent takeover, these beliefs were erased and replaced with atheism.

Ms. Jididi said the main theme that stayed with her throughout the evening was the idea of “how people got through hardship, injustice, and how they fought for their rights.”

“I was quite inspired by that,” she said.

Ms. Jididi thought the company’s mission is very important because “this is an ongoing issue happening in many, many corners of the world.”

“How people—from children to elderly, women to men—fight for their rights, for justice in the world, for equality from all aspects of life,” she explained. “This is a very widespread theme. It’s happening in many corners of the world. Some of them we know, some we might not even have heard of.”

The main message, she said, she will take home from Shen Yun’s performance is the power of resilience.

“Firstly, thank you so much for all the effort, for all the work you’ve put in, and all the travel you’ve done all the way around the world,” she said.

“And secondly, hats off, well done. To be honest, there’s no words to describe the quality—that was phenomenal.”