Members of White Lotus Dragon & Lion Dance range from kids in seventh grade to young adults. Danh, 27, has spent years working to ensure the group feels safe and like a family for its members.

Kids learn the fan dance during Fountain Valley’s Lunar New Year cultural festival at the Fountain Valley Recreation Center on Saturday. (James Carbone) Advertisement ...

Members of the Lion Dance Kids group train at their Kingsgrove studio in January 2023. Credit: Wolter Peeters. Leung agrees that drilling your stances until they are second nature is essential.

Historically, lion dance was a male-dominated art form, as it was physically demanding and a taboo, culturally, for women. Today, girls are challenging this tradition by taking up the sport.

Tran said they continued the group and stemmed off from Louisville Lion Dance. "They started in their garage and so they were just like little kids dancing and I came along a year later," he said.

Benson Shum. Penguin Workshop, $10.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-65887-1; $5.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-65886-4 At their kung fu club, siblings Lily and Noah spot a colorful lion dance costume—the ...

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.

Dancers from the Asian American Dragon & Lion Dance Association perform the Chinese lion dance at the Westfield Garden State Plaza, 1 Garden State Plaza Parkway, in Paramus., New Jersey, on ...