SYDNEY, Australia—Shen Yun is “a tremendous display of artistic virtuosity,” said Peter Kurti, director of the Culture, Prosperity, and Civil Society program at the Australian think tank The Centre for Independent Studies. Mr. Kurti, who is also a published author, a TV commentator, and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia, came to see Shen Yun at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on April 10 with his wife, Linda Kurti, founder of a social research company. Mr. Kurti praised the show, which features classical Chinese dance, as a “technically accomplished and colorful, dramatic presentation of an ancient religious and national tradition.” “What I think is really important and impressive was this communication of tradition. And conveying to a contemporary audience … that tradition is important, and that tradition defines who we are,” he said. ”I thought that Shen Yun, expressed that extremely well, and in a very …