The Philadelphia Suns prepare to celebrate the Lunar New Year with lion dance performances, filled with drumming, music and firecrackers. Lion masks at a rehearsal space in Chinatown are waiting to be ...

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 new ...

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 ...

The Lion Dance is one of the most widespread folk dances in China. The lion is the king of animals. In Chinese tradition, the lion is regarded as a mascot, which can bring good luck. The dance has a ...

On any given evening in the Seattle area, you can find pockets of community forming in unexpected places: the rhythmic thud ...

The Chinese art of Lion dance has spread good fortune for centuries, and as the Lunar New Year approaches, Lion Dance at Cornell brings a piece of that festivity to the Cornell community. Lion dance ...

-- which roars to life Sunday -- is proving especially demanding. The Kwans have agreed to 32 separate performances around the region, their most ever in a Lunar New Year season, and requests are ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Tony Shiu and his West Coast Lion Dance troupe perform in various venues during Lunar New Year. "We go around and we bring good luck to whomever we perform for," Shiu shares. Sharing ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Year of the Rabbit officially begins Jan. 22 but, as Asian-American communities celebrate, it will be another animal that takes center stage: the lion. Lion dance performances ...

Yang and his team perform a Xitao lion dance in Gongyi city, Henan province. CHINA DAILY "They must be capable of imitating the lion's suspicion, joy, anger and other traits with lifelike accuracy," ...

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 ...