January 10th 2015

Really excited about the lion dance performance coming up ... my fear of performing is much less with this one as I am not up there alone and I am somewhat hidden so I can actually enjoy myself.  I think its coming together well although at practice last night we all felt the lack of practice over the christmas break set us back a bit.  Still ran into another lion on the cross over part so our orientation is not perfect yet but now we can start working on the fine tuning of stepping and head movements and although its tough it sure makes a difference in the look of the performance.  As the backend of the lion I have less to worry about with the head movements, however trying to anticipate what your front end is going to do and moving along with that can be pretty challenging.  Listening to the drum can help with that but only if your partner is listening and following that as well.  I believe this is going to be an outstanding lion dance performance at the chinese new year celebration, looking forward to it.