TORONTO—Film writer and director Robert King said Shen Yun was an “inspiring” experience after two years of lockdowns due to the pandemic. “I was very glad to see something so beautiful, especially after the last two years of all of us being locked up because of COVID, so I took some energy from it. It was inspiring,” he said after seeing Shen Yun at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto on April 2. “It’s great to be in a room full of people who are all being sort of taken away and inspired by the performances and the colors and everything that was happening on the stage, and to do it as a collective group.” Shen Yun, a New York-based performing arts company, presents classical Chinese dance and music to audiences worldwide. The company, which displays the line “China Before Communism” in its literature, has taken it as its mission …