TORONTO—Teresa Uszacki, a painter and former art gallery owner, says she saw lights around Shen Yun’s artists when she attended the performance at the Four Seasons Centre on April 9. “It was like an aura, a radiation of color [around the dancers’ bodies],” said Ms. Uszacki. “This is a very healing, uplifting performance that comes from the soul and touches the soul.” Based in New York, Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. “Through breathtaking dance and music, Shen Yun’s artists tell of a time when divine beings walked upon the earth, leaving behind a culture that inspired generations,” says Shen Yun’s website. “Ancient Chinese wisdom, infused with Buddhist and Taoist spirituality and values, gave birth to everything from medical innovations to opera, dance, architecture, and even martial arts. But after decades of communist rule, much of this divinely inspired culture has been destroyed or …