The curtain opens, and principal dancer Steven Wang leaps out, unfurling a banner in his hands. On it, five characters are written. They read: Falun Dafa is good. For daring to utter these few simple words, tens of millions in China, including Wang’s family, face severe persecution by China’s communist regime. Wang, a classical Chinese dancer, began his career nearly two decades ago when he was accepted into a professional dance academy at age 12. Today, he’s a principal dancer with Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, unique for its mission of reviving the authentic traditional Chinese culture. For 5,000 years, China was a place where harmony between heaven, earth, and humankind was the central belief of society. The people believed their culture to be divinely inspired, and Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism had a strong influence on this society, which sought to uphold principles such as …