SYDNEY, Australia—Owner and chief executive of IT company Ironborn, Vittoria Anderson, said she found Shen Yun Performing Art’s contemporary piece that depicted a true story of faith in the face of persecution by China’s communist authorities as “courageous.”
“The one with the school girl was brave … that was really, really brave for them to choreograph,” Ms. Anderson said after watching New York-based Shen Yun at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on April 29.
The vignette she referred to was the piece that showed peaceful Falun Dafa practitioners being persecuted in China for their faith. The faith, Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that teaches people to return to the values of truth, compassion, and tolerance in their daily lives. The faith has been brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999….