VANCOUVER, Canada—For visual effects artist Rémi Munier, Shen Yun Performing Arts was a feast for the eyes. “Very bright, very dynamic, it’s truly beautiful,” said Mr. Munier, who works as a lead character FX artist for a visual effects company. “It’s really, really colorful.” Based in New York, Shen Yun features classical Chinese dance and music, with a mission to revive China’s culture as it was before decades of communist rule all but destroyed it. One of the unique aspects of Shen Yun is its use of a patented technology that enables the interaction of Shen Yun dancers on stage with projected backdrops depicting beautiful scenes from different eras in Chinese history or celestial palaces. “I’ve never seen that before,” Mr. Munier said about the use of the projected backdrops. “I found that really interesting, that the performers jump out of the stage [into the backdrops], and they become part of …