Onstage, an emotional story set in mainland China was playing out through dance. “It was about a young couple that practiced Falun Dafa. This family had just welcomed a newborn baby. It should have been a happy, cheerful story. But the young couple, because of their faith, were both kidnapped and tortured, and their newborn baby became an orphan,” Liang Yu said. Liang plays the pipa, or the Chinese lute, and is an orchestra member with New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. And during these moments, she would be sitting in the orchestra pit feeling chills as soon as the story-based dance began. “Because I myself had similar experiences,” Liang said in a Shen Yun Creations video. “I had to watch my mom get arrested.” Persecuted for Their Faith “I remember so clearly,” Liang said. It was the fall of 1999, and she and her mother and some women in the neighborhood …