HOUSTON, Texas—Angela Hayes was full of praise after she attended the classical Chinese dance and music performance, Shen Yun Performing Arts, at the Wortham Center Brown Theater in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 18. Hayes, with nearly 30 years as a dance educator in a Texas public school and then as the director of a performing arts group, said Shen Yun was spectacular. “I not only appreciated the beautiful movement but the artistry that goes into the production,” she said. Hayes loved how the stories flowed from depicting traditional culture to more recent events in China. Traditional Chinese culture was brought to the brink of extinction after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. New York-based Shen Yun aims to present “China before Communism” and revive traditional Chinese culture through dance and music. It also presents dances that illustrate the present-day persecution of the ancient Chinese spiritual group Falun …