A lion dancer kicks a head of lettuce into the crowd, Feb. 9, 2025. The practice called "Choy Cheng" in English "Plucking Greens", is a play on words, with choy the word for green being pronounced the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crouching lion, hidden dragon. It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday at the New York Chinese Freemasons Athletic Club on Canal Street, where ...

With a mix of ferocity and finesse, three ancient lion costumes sway side to side, shaking their bodies and stomping their feet. Underneath each costume, two members of the Joyous Spring Lion Dance ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - It’s thrilling and, at times, heart-stopping to watch a lion dancing to rhythmic beats and leaping onto poles five to seven feet high. The two dancers mastering the lion’s ...

Today marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake. And it’s an extra special Lunar New Year in Washington, because this year, for the first time, it’s a state holiday. Festivities have already been ...

This International Dance Day, Tan Yee Lee’s journey challenges who gets to carry tradition forward.

It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday at the New York Chinese Freemasons Athletic Club on Canal Street, where 10-15 performers, who make up one of Chinatown’s oldest lion dancing troupes, dating back nearly 70 ...