“It’s very, very interesting, visually very powerful. There’s a lot of subtlety... with facial expressions and the tilting of the head.”

“We noticed some kind of consistencies in the early dances, ... a lot of subtlety in the use of the head, and hands, and arms. The more we focused on it, the more we could tell that there were a lot of intricacies that ... we weren’t expecting at first.”

“The very flow of the show itself is very soothing and calming the way meditation is. So, I guess in that way, [the meditative quality’s] threaded throughout the performance.”

“For so long China was so closed to America ... and we’re still, in the West, we still don’t understand China very well. So, this is something that is very basic and helpful for, I think, the average person to learn a little bit about the history of China. It’s a shame they can’t perform in China. I was surprised to hear that.”