Celebrate Chinese New Year with colorful Lion Dancers
Members of the Mak Fai Washington Kung Fu Club of Seattle will celebrate Chinese New Year with the traditional Lion Dance at the Olympia Timberland Library on Thursday, February 16 from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. The performance takes places after the library is closed.
Accompanied by live music, the dancers will interpret the movements of a pair of lions, incorporating moves taught by Kung Fu Master Mak Hin Fai Sifu. The dancers will take questions from the audience after the performance.
The colorful and entertaining lion dance has considerable physical and philosophical aspects. Master Mak wrote in an email to library staff: “The basic martial art in Lion Dance requires not only one’s waist and foot exercise, but also the strength to hold the lion head for a long period of time. A good lion dance performer should be able to make the lion look real, with emphasis on its expression, actions and form… The key to successful lion-dancing is in the mastery of passion of the art, which translates to self-forgetting.”
The Chinese calendar marked January 23, 2012 as beginning of the Year of the Dragon.
The Olympia Timberland Library is at 313 8th Avenue. For more information, please contact the library at (360) 352-0595 or go to www.TRL.org.
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