My friends and I started a lion dance team a couple of years back when we were still in high school, with no money or anything. We would go around our local Vietnamese stores in San Jose to ask for donations to start a team, and within a month we where able to collect around $800, enough to buy a lion and a drum... and so our team was born! We would hold practices and perform during Chinese or Vietnamese New Years. Sometimes for grand openings of stores or weddings, and all of the money was put back into buying more equipments and lion heads to grow the team. Lion dancing consist of two people dancing underneath a paper mache lion head and a tail. Dancing and expressing different emotions with the lion and sometimes doing difficult jumps.




The Three Bears, an assignment from Ill 2. Learned a lot in this class and had a lot of fun with watercolors.