The Chinese Youth Club's lion dance troupe perform during the Lunar New Year parade in D.C.'s Chinatown in 2023. (Penny Lee) ...

That’s the magic of Austin’s Heavenly Dragon Lion Dance Association. The art form known as lion dance has transfixed Houston native Kevin Gian since he was a kid.

The lion dance, started over 1,000 years ago in ancient China, requires two artists dressed in a lion costume with a large furry lion head and tail.

Lion dance performances have become part of a Lunar New Year culture which dates back centuries.

A group of Asian-American women in Boston are redefining a Lunar New Year tradition every year by performing in an all-female lion and dragon dance troupe. The Chinese martial art is traditionally ...

Pumping the beat of Chinatown is the New York Choy Lay Fut Dance Team. It's made up of mostly high schoolers who are all from Chinatown.

The Lion Dance roared through the Bridgewater Commons Mall to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

At least two performers were doing a lion dance routine on a small platform balanced by a ladder on Monday in Dengfeng, Henan province when one of the dancers lost his balance and fell.

Li Zhihao was one of these children some 20 years ago. For as long as he could remember, the lion dance had been a part of life in the city in Guangdong province.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tony Shiu and his West Coast Lion Dance troupe perform in various venues during Lunar New Year. "We go around and we bring good luck to whomever we perform for," Shiu shares.

Many spectators during the lion dance were dressed in red, which represents joy and celebration in Chinese culture. Some families dressed their children in Chinese traditional jackets or Tiger Hats.