WELLINGTON, New Zealand—”Please bring it back every year,” said Bruce McIntyre, the founder of MacPac Wilderness Equipment, after he attended the fourth of five sold-out Shen Yun Performing Arts shows in the city this year.
For 35 years, Mr. McIntyre ran MacPac, a brand that specialises in outdoor recreational equipment. He later became involved in other businesses before co-founding an independent school, Seven Oaks School, based in New Zealand’s Christchurch.
“I just think it’s brilliant,” Mr. McIntyre said of Shen Yun on April 15. “I was amazed. It was just absolutely fantastic … I was just super impressed.”
Founded in 2006, New York-based Shen Yun seeks to reclaim and renew the divinely-inspired Chinese culture through the universal language of music and dance….