Legendary Lion Dance Association has been around since 2000, with male and female team members as young as 13. ... I cover arts and culture, from Comic-Con to opera, ...

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.

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.

The UCLA lion dance team, founded in 2001, is affiliated with the Association of Chinese Americans (ACA) on campus, and is comprised of about 40 members.

Most people in Chinatown participated in the lion dance back then, he said, and attracting new performers was easy. Now, it’s harder to spread the word.

He pairs Lion Dance with Choy Lay Fut, a deadly martial art. "Even Bruce Lee back in the '70s said there's no other martial arts you need to worry about but Choy Lay Fut," Ng said. "It's all combat.

Lion dance is a physically demanding art form, requiring immense strength, stamina and coordination. Each evening, practices begin with body-strengthening exercises and martial arts training to ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — We are one week away from Chinese New Year and that means there are a few days left to see a lion dance. “We do it at Chinese New Year because thatʻs technically the … ...

Children practice lion dance at a kindergarten in Tengxian County of Wuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 28, 2023. The Tengxian Lion Dance, which is listed as a national ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The City of Beaumont is hosting a Lunar New Year celebration on Wednesday at city hall featuring a traditional Lion Dance performance. The Port Arthur Lions will perform the ...