Under the guidance of lead instructor Kevin Gian, the Heavenly Dragon Lion Dance Association practices at Fo Guang Shan Xiang Yun Temple. Sara Diggins is a visual journalist at the Austin ...

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 ...

Growing up, Kristina Nguyen, 21, would celebrate the Lunar New Year making bánh chung with her family, then sharing the traditional Vietnamese dish with friends and neighbors. This year, her New Year ...

Chinese New Year is on Saturday but the festivites are already underway. Many people are already familiar with traditional Lion Dancing, but one group is taking their routine to new heights. The Wah ...

Giant, furry heads buck and roll, and long bodies slither across the floor behind them. Logically, you know that the colorful creatures in front of you aren’t creatures at all. They’re dancers in ...

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 ...

The team members slowly makes their way to the park dressed in their workout clothes, consisting of black pants a white T-shirt with the words “White Lotus Dragon and Lion Dance” emblazoned on the ...

Anthony Le was fearful of the lions. Those gigantic heads, vibrant red with protruding eyes, bobbing and weaving across the room, coming closer and closer, the thudding of the aggressive drums louder ...

For the past two years, I've been documenting the lives of youths at the East Wind Foundation, a nonprofit organization in the heart of Los Angeles' Chinatown, at the Alpine Recreation Park. Here, ...

When most students were finishing up their classes and heading home for the day, the members of Gió Nam Múa Lân gathered in front of UC Irvine’s Social Sciences building to prepare for what would be a ...