HOUSTON, Texas—Like many audience members, Simon and Claudia Tanner were left deep in thought after two hours of wonderful artistry by Shen Yun Performing Arts. “I really enjoyed the performance, the depth of it, the spirituality,” Claudia Tanner said of her Shen Yun experience. She said that the performance hit on “a lot of deep themes” that a lot of people today are thinking about: “who you really are as human beings, that we were created, that there is more to life than what we’ve seen in the modern world today.” Simon Tanner agreed, saying, “I mean for us, we don’t believe we are put here without a reason. We believe we are spiritual beings, that God put us here for a purpose. This stuff is important.” New York-based Shen Yun portrays a China before communism. Their mission is to revive China’s 5,000 years of divinely-bestowed civilization and restore Chinese …