Today we had a Lion dance tutor come into OC.
A lot of people expected it to be a line dance. we had to pair up into two. once we got to the hall we lined up and waited for the current class to leave, once we went in we sat in our pairs and he told us a few things, his name is winsome, in the northern part of china the lion costumes are more fluffy and in the southern part they are less fluffy,
the costume is called lion because nobody knew what lions looked like that is why it has a mix or different animal-like features. the difference between a lion and a dragon is, the lion is much shorter and contains less people, the dragon is long and has many more people.
Winsome had 4 lion costume a red one, light yellow, dark yellow and white one.
In the lion costumes there needs to have two people to work it, one for the front/head and one for the back/body. in the lion costume there is a string you have to pull to work the eyes and the ears.
The person in the front has to wear a scarf-like piece of fabric around their waist so that the person behind them working the back can hold onto it and support their balance.
there wasn't enough costumes for everyone so he took them in two groups. We didn't do anything too crazy, I didn't want to get in a costume so I watched, and they were really fluffy and cute.
