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 ...

The Penn Museum will celebrate the Year of the Horse with its 45th Annual "CultureFest!" Lunar New Year on Saturday, Jan. 31, ...

The waterways won’t be the only competitive setting at this year’s Colorado Dragon Boat Festival at Sloan’s Lake Park in Denver. As boaters take to the lake for the Festival’s annual dragon boat races ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- When Allen Lee first made the decision in 1974 to form his own lion dance group, he didn't know what the future had in store for them. At the time, there wasn't really a formally ...

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 ...

Young people at the East Wind Foundation dedicate their after-school hours and weekends to practicing the traditional folk art of lion dancing. Why it matters: An ancient art dating back to the Han ...

SALT LAKE CITY — As Utah’s Asian community celebrates Lunar New Year, which began on Tuesday, some traditions have had to adapt to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. One such tradition is the Lion ...

Two children give a lion lucky red envelopes at a Lunar New Year performance in Pineville on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2024. Smoke filled the air as firecrackers erupted and spectators gathered outside Lula ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tony Shiu and his West Coast Lion Dance troupe perform in various venues during Lunar New Year. "We go around and we bring good luck to whomever we perform for," Shiu shares. Sharing ...

Lion dancers from the Buk Sing Kung Fu Academy in Fremont perform during a “Local Heroes” ceremony Saturday at Laurel Elementary School in Oakland. After the ceremony, the group took part in a Chinese ...