BIRMINGHAM, UK—Shen Yun Performing Arts touched and inspired a packed audience in Birmingham on the evening of April 2 at the ICC. “It’s just fantastic! Visually it’s just a phenomenon,” said Jennifer Anderson-Dixon, an interior designer and company owner, who had come to see the show with her husband. “The colours are amazing; the choreography and the stories that they are telling us are wonderful!” She said she found the costumes very inspiring and hoped to bring the vibrant and bright colours into her design work. “The fabrics and the silks, and the textures and the way they’re layered, the costumes are phenomenal.” Shen Yun’s mission is to revive the traditional Chinese culture that was all-but-lost under the communist era and bring it to life on stage with classical Chinese dance. As such, Shen Yun draws on the spiritual themes that run through Chinese culture. Mrs. Anderson-Dixon said that she and …