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 ...
In a San Francisco warehouse on a late stormy night, Makeila Zhou, 16, and Winson Deng, 19, leapt across a series of metal discs held aloft by 6-foot-tall metal poles called the jong. The two had ...
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 ...
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The rhythm of drums, hand cymbals, and gongs accompanies agile performers carrying brightly colored lion dances. This cultural attraction is most easily recognized during Chinese ...