Midnight Lion Dance Show Highlight ... The result is a fluid, graceful and energetic performance in which a lion might jump on tables, rise up on its hind legs or prance around a crowd, all ...

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 ...

“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.

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with journalist Grace Yeoh, who spent a month with a championship lion dancing team, about the rigors of the dance and what makes it so demanding. Nearly 2 billion people ...

Juniors at David Douglas High School, they have been best friends since kindergarten, lion dance partners for two ... where the jongs are and how far to jump to nail a landing.

Underneath each costume, two members of the Joyous Spring Lion Dance Troupe shuffle forwards and backwards over and over again, until every step is precise and in time with the beat of a drum.

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 ...

Folk artists give a lion dance performance in Zaozhuang City, east China's Shandong Province, March 9, 2024. Various celebrations were held for the upcoming Longtaitou Day, a traditional day for a ...

then took to the stage at Westfield Garden State Plaza recently and performed the Chinese lion dance to the beat of a drum before dozens of spectators. He was performing the dance for the Lunar ...