The Chinese New Year lion dance is one of the most exhilarating ways to celebrate the holiday.
Chinese New Year–often called Chinese Lunar New Year although it actually is “lunisolar”–is the most important holiday in China. It’s a two week long celebration marked by gift-giving, food-sharing, firecracker-cracking and much joyful celebration. The festival traditionally takes place at the end of winter and marks not only a start of a new year, but the impending coming of spring. The festival is full of jubilant dancing, often performed in the streets by trained dancers in colorful costumes. For example, as you see in this video, in the Chinese New Year lion dance, two performers hidden inside the brightly-colored costume of a lion perform a choreographed, martial arts-like series of steps.
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How to Dance like a Chinese Lion
We know you want to learn the Lion Dance before you celebrate the new year in China. You’ve always wanted to do more than just sit on the sidelines during Chinese New Year celebrations, right? You have just enough time to learn the Lion Dance…and why not? The guys in this video will teach you. Start with the “Jump and Kick.”
