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 dozens ...

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 are ...

The waterways won’t be the only competitive setting at this year’s Colorado Dragon Boat Festival at Sloan’s Lake Park in Denver. As boaters take to the lake for the Festival’s annual dragon boat races ...

Two children give a lion lucky red envelopes at a Lunar New Year performance in Pineville on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2024. Smoke filled the air as firecrackers erupted and spectators gathered outside Lula ...

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This post was updated Nov. 12 at 1:20 p.m. A Lion Dance team will be blessing the festivities of an upcoming auspicious occasion. Held in Los Angeles State Historic Park, the Making Memories Festival ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- When Allen Lee first made the decision in 1974 to form his own lion dance group, he didn't know what the future had in store for them. At the time, there wasn't really a formally ...

SALT LAKE CITY — As Utah’s Asian community celebrates Lunar New Year, which began on Tuesday, some traditions have had to adapt to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. One such tradition is the Lion ...

Young people at the East Wind Foundation dedicate their after-school hours and weekends to practicing the traditional folk art of lion dancing. Why it matters: An ancient art dating back to the Han ...

It’s not easy to be a lion. On the top floor of a five-story building beneath the Manhattan Bridge, martial artist Nicky Ling, 24, practices the lion dance to prepare for the Lunar New Year ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — They’re bold. They’re big. They’re impossible to look away from. You’ve probably seen lion dancers at a Lunar New Year celebration in Portland, but there is more to lion ...