Chinese Lion Dance & Tai Chi

Chinese Lion Dance/Tai Chi/Arranging a lion dance performance

Details on arranging a lion dance performance – please contact Sifu Cheung via email: jc3066@hotmail.co.uk

Client(s) who wish to hire our lion dance troupe must discuss their needs via the above email: each function is different from one another and that determine the appropriate fee.

** A new Cambridge Chinese Lion Dance website is at present under construction, when done, I will create a link here in due course. **

Below are some examples of our past experience –

2024 lion dance performance for Cambridge Chinese Community Centre – 11th Feb 2024.

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2024 Dragon dance at Cambridge Chinese Community Centre, 11th Feb.

Dragon dance require a lot more team co-ordination but a lot more fun as a team! It is a very good team building exercise and below was one of our past rehearsal:

Chinese lion Dance need a lot of physical strength(more difficult than Dragon dance) particularly on the waist, legs, arms and back muscles. Ordinarily performed by martial artists, those who are not in this category will need to put in more effort to achieve the same standard. The dance or a certain routine involves a lot of power deliveries that are like punching, dogging, kicking, stepping and do all these with the weight of the costume on the two practitioners. After a minute or two, you will get really warmed and 10 minutes of rigorous workout can burn many hundreds or calories!  

For any Martial Artist who can wield the lion ‘beautifully’ (i.e., able to express its emotions and animosity nature through action) also will indirectly benefit their own art! 

In my experiences, the lion dance improves my stances, structure, technique execution, stability, timing, and balance. Yes, it is challenging work. A lot of sweats! However, the reward (the feeling) is immense. 

** To my students – ‘I really wished that each would learn the lion dance. Some of the exercises within you had already experienced in class. For example, the high kick, the wide horse stance. Apart from the required effort, the drumming, gong, and cymbals can also be quite additive!’  

Wing Chun Kuen 詠春拳, if it has Lion Dance knowledge & attributes, that will make it if even more effective (i.e.,deadly) ** 

ANYONE WHO WANT TO LEARN CHINESE LION DANCE – information is as follow: 

Sunday – from  5th November 2023, Sunday and every subsquent Sunday until term time arrives (i.e. no lessons within term time).

Here are some past video clips: 

As you can see, a lot of work and quite fun too. In addition, there is a kind of musical Jamming (i.e., like practising the drum part) shown below:

ANYONE WHO WANT TO LEARN CHINESE LION DANCE – information is as follow: 

Sunday – from  5th November 2023, Sunday and every subsquent Sunday until term time arrives (i.e. no lessons within term time).

Venue –   Netherhall College, Atrium, at the Martial Art Studio, CB1 8NN

Cost – £6 per head per session from 2 – 3 pm if paid in blocks otherwise £8 each time.