SAO PAULO—Renata Barretto attended a performance at the Teatro Bradesco on the afternoon of March 19, expecting something that came out of China.
Instead, she was wowed and moved to tears by a performance that included commentary on modern-day China that could not have anything to do with the ruling communist regime.
“What I saw was completely different,” said Ms. Barretto after seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts. Ms. Barretto is the head of global operations in Brazil for BNP Paribas Factoring, a leading European financial company.
New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, with a mission to revive 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, showing audiences “China before communism.”…