Over last weekend there was a big politicl gathering for Chinese New Year with the Asian consolate… my school was invited to open the festvities with a Dragon.. and another school was then going to do a lion dance.. it ended up that they lost one of their dancers… My instructor decided to volunteer me for the other half of the lion.. me not having practiced with a lion EVER.. he said just follow the guy in front of you… hmmm OK:)
We did it and the dance took bout 5 min to do.. but afterward I was soaking wet with sweat and my legs felt like I practiced for a couple of hours..
So now I siked about this and want to learn it.. I tried to do some research on the net about it.. but there isn’t a whole lot of info out there (or i may just be looking in the wrong places)
Can any of y’all give me any resources to look at.. like where to get the costumes.. differences between northern and southern lion dancing.. etc.
I’m sure anything will be helpful
Thanks
Greg