(This story is made possible with the support of The Asian American Foundation) by Prescott Deckinger Outside the Kansas Union at the University of Kansas, a crowd gathers as three pairs of performers ...

Ten years ago, Chloe Howard was just a drummer learning to keep the beat with the dancers of the traditional lion dance. And now, at 23, she is an instructor for a younger generation of Chinese teens ...

The northern lion dance is more acrobatic and realistic, with the performers balancing on balls and seesaws, while the southern style is more stylized, marked by powerful movements and lion behavior ...