Since those lows, the school and city have grown, said Baugh-Ribar. The school gets regular requests for its lion dance troupe, performing for the Strip hotel-casinos, local businesses and in the ...

Flinging her male teammate into the air, performer Lin Xinmeng practises China's world-famous lion dance with a troupe that is shrugging off centuries of patriarchal norms. Mixing acrobatics ...

Underneath each costume, two members of the Joyous Spring Lion Dance Troupe shuffle forwards and backwards over and over again, until every step is precise and in time with the beat of a drum.

Mixing acrobatics, martial arts and theatre, lion dancing is believed to bring prosperity and protection from evil spirits. Performed across China and around the world, at weddings or during ...

Flinging her male teammate into the air, performer Lin Xinmeng practiced China’s world-famous lion dance with a troupe that is shrugging off centuries of patriarchal norms. Mixing acrobatics, martial ...