Peter Khem, of San Diego Legendary Lion Dance Association, drums at a lion dance on Jan. 21, 2024. The head of the lion can be extremely expressive as the dancer operates strings and levers to ...

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with journalist Grace Yeoh, who spent a month with a championship lion ... of dance style. And when I was there, they did mention that the partners, so both head and ...

Robert Yu put on a large colorful lion head and matching pants, then took to the stage at Westfield Garden State Plaza recently and performed the Chinese lion dance to the beat of a drum before ...

Performing the dance demands intense physicality with two dancers – a head and a tail — in each lion.“We cross-train. We lift weights. We do drills,” said dancer IJ Chan.Chan and Nicole ...

Penn Lions practices the Hok San style of the lion dance, a traditional art ... strength just by doing stances, doing head work, and footwork,” Liston said. Once the members gain some strength, they ...

From top to bottom: The Nanxing Hexingtang Women's Lion Dance Team custom-made a purple lion head. Li Jiawen portrayed the lion's head in a lion dance performance. Zhong Ziying (front) is the team ...

Originating in China and now particularly popular throughout Southeast Asia, it involves teams of two performers who together form the head and tail of a lion. In costume, they not only dance and ...

They're also involved in more advanced techniques, where they may have to lift the head player. The style that I do is called the Hong Kong style of lion dance. It's very hard to teach and very ...

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(WLOX) - Behind every performance is a cast of hard-working performers, and a Lion ... dance requires perfect timing and precise technique to make sure the dancers are moving in harmony. “Being ...

Folk artists give a lion dance performance in Zaozhuang City ... The day of Longtaitou, which literally means "dragon raises head," falls on the second day of the second lunar month.