OXFORD, UK—Investor David Buttress attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the New Theatre on Jan. 15. For Mr. Buttress, Shen Yun was an opportunity to learn about a foreign culture.
“I think it’s incredible [and] unique,” said Mr. Buttress. “It’s not often you get the chance to see something that’s so original and different to anything you can watch … It’s really original and unique. I think it’s [an] amazing thing for someone from our culture to watch something like this, which is just totally different.”
Based in New York, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by leading Chinese artists, and quickly became the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Over the years, Shen Yun has grown from one to eight equally sized companies that tour the world simultaneously. Shen Yun’s mission is to revive traditional Chinese culture, which was lost when the communist regime took power….