Yang Feilong, a young inheritor of Henan province's Xitao town, performs a flying-dragon dance in Hefei ... dressed in multi-coloured lion-shaped costumes jump into view. They nimbly move on ...

A typical lion dance performance merges artistry with athleticism ... get used to their body habits, how they jump, and how they move," said Yen. She says she's learned a lot about the mythical ...

"You need teamwork because the lion dance is performed by two people," says Keung. "You need to be able to move and jump together, so you need to practise a lot; so much that the two of you feel ...

“If you just jump in there and try to go 100 percent ... Most people in Chinatown participated in the lion dance back then, he said, and attracting new performers was easy.

To plans on continuing lion dancing so that one day she can perform increasingly complex dance routines with stunts such as “jongs,” where dancers jump on poles. Her primary goal, though ...

JUST how lucrative being in a lion dance troupe is can best be summed up by the number of troupes currently found nationwide. Chong Yen Heng, secretary-general of the Heng Kok Lion Dance troupe ...

GEORGE TOWN: Children are usually more than happy to just soak up the atmosphere at home during Chinese New Year. But for some, prancing around in lion dance costumes matters more than anything else.

Yiwei’s lion dance troupe is no stranger to the winner ... When Tock senses that it would be “unsafe” to jump, he would “hold down” Tan’s waist as a signal to stop, the pair shared.

"It feels really exciting to just be in the heat of the moment," she said during practice with the Vancouver Chinese Lion & Dragon Dance Team in Richmond, B.C. Lee is among a growing number of ...

SINGAPORE - Some lion and dragon dance troupes here are seeing increased demand for their services in the coming Year of the Dragon, and are intensifying their training sessions. One of them is ...