TORONTO—Angela Sena, founder and creative director of the “The New Earth Wonder School,” was uplifted by what she saw at Shen Yun Performing Arts.

“[It’s] a beautiful piece of art,” she said.

“It was a beautiful message to give us hope and inspiration. It reminds people that there’s a renaissance coming after all this destruction.”

Mrs. Sena said her 7-year-old son attended the performance and was “captivated the entire time.”

She was happy schoolchildren were watching Shen Yun and that the traditional values conveyed throughout the performance were “what’s being programmed into their brains.”

Drawing upon ancient China’s Buddhist and Daoist philosophies, Shen Yun says its performances demonstrate “China before communism.”

Mrs. Sena said the uplifting messages in the performance are very relevant today.

“Although Canada is not China, there’s so many parallels between the two countries that we can see today,” she said.

“We were powerful … we were very happy to exist and to create and then a lot things happened in the meantime to destroy that,” he said.

“This is the rebirth, this is where things are going to be moving forward in a higher vibration direction.”

In the past, artists looked to the divine for inspiration and cultivated virtue to create uplifting art. Today, Shen Yun’s artists follow this noble tradition, which is why audiences feel there is something different about Shen Yun, says the company’s website.

“People need to come back to who they are—the real them,” said Mr. Taylor. “This is about how we can grow in the universe together.”