Lion Dance Practice on Jan 17th

Its somewhat crazy having 5 lions with 10 dancers and senior blackbelts with multiple opinions and hordes of questions and everyone trying to fine tune the lion dance performance.  Despite the chaos I think the last practice put alot of really cool things in place.  It was noisy but productive.  Although my legs were pretty tired and it looked like everybody else was in the same boat, swimming in sweat and exhausted we ironed out a bunch of kinks in the performance.  The stack and roll happened successfully a number of times.  The wave has had a change in orientation I think it looks better.  The polka step feels ridiculous but looks neat, and with the tail action of the lions adds some serious cute factor to the performance.  We are so going to WOW everyone with this performance.

January 10th, 2015

Really excited about the lion dance performance coming up ... my fear of performing is much less with this one as I am not up there alone and I am somewhat hidden so I can actually enjoy myself.  I think its coming together well although at practice last night we all felt the lack of practice over the christmas break set us back a bit.  Still ran into another lion on the cross over part so our orientation is not perfect yet but now we can start working on the fine tuning of stepping and head movements and although its tough it sure makes a difference in the look of the performance.  As the backend of the lion I have less to worry about with the head movements, however trying to anticipate what your front end is going to do and moving along with that can be pretty challenging.  Listening to the drum can help with that but only if your partner is listening and following that as well.  I believe this is going to be an outstanding lion dance performance at the chinese new year celebration, looking forward to it.