MELBOURNE, Australia—Shop owners Elizabeth and Robert Conway bought their tickets to Saturday evenings' Chinese Spectacular after a Chinese customer of theirs came in and personally told them about the show.
The couple enjoyed everything about the performances, and felt there was a clear message that "gets out."
"I loved the dancing, the women dancing, beautiful. And I also loved the message, the positive message that is there, for compassion, truth – I like that, I think it's nice, and it's sort of like good and evil." Said Mr Conway
"And then the bad boys who ended up being the good boys" he said referring to two wayward youths who changed their demeanor after entering an abandoned Buddhist temple to shelter from the rain, in the performance The Fruits of Goodness.
Having read about Buddhist religions, Mrs Conway said she could understand and relate to the meaning behind each performance "but to actually know the dance, the culture of the dance. I didn't know that the dance actually epitomises their spirituality, that it's different to ballet. That was actually very interesting."
"Every country's culture is important to them. I'm Australian but my heritage is Hungarian, and I take pride in that. And I think every country has a right to keep that culture because it makes them who they are. Because we are the sum total also of our culture."
Praising the performance 'The Risen Lotus Flower', Mr Conway shared "the message there, was about, I guess, willing to actually die for the truth isn't it. The ladies who do that meditation, and they get belted up, but they do it for the truth. In this day and age, it's really more so that people should have the freedom to express themselves."
"The Western world fought for it, so we should support the others who want it also," added Mrs Conway.
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