ATLANTA—Bobby Dutcher, the recently retired owner of Atlantic Petroleum, was duly impressed with Shen Yun Performing Arts when he attended the evening performance on Jan. 7. “It’s been fantastic,” he said at the Woodruff Arts Center-Symphony Hall. “The colors and everything is phenomenal. A beautiful performance.” Like for most audiences, attending Shen Yun was a learning experience. He read in the program book about classical Chinese dance, Chinese culture, “and of course, what’s going on in China, unfortunately.” It’s the central irony of New York-based Shen Yun’s success. Shen Yun’s mission is to revive 5,000 years of Chinese culture through song and dance—a legacy under attack from the current Chinese communist regime due to the fact that Chinese culture is traditionally heavily informed by the religions of Buddhism and Taoism. The show is not available in Mainland China for this reason. But Shen Yun proudly embraces the spirituality of the …