Thursday, March 01, 2007

Lion Dance

As usual, each year, granny will invite a lion dance troupe to perform at her house; it's been an old tradition since last time in the old house in town.
This year; there were 2 troupes even; and a total of 3 lions performed (1 lion from the 1st troupe and 2 lions from the 2nd troupe).
I don't have most of the pics here with me; some are in bro's disk; will get that from him later :)
We even took a video of the lion dance :D
Anyway, this was the troupe for the first lion dance; mostly youngsters and they were pretty much amateurs in this fine art:p
They were even talking and nudging each other during the performance. Aunt later explained that they are hiring youths these days due to the cheap labour and the allowance varies for the performers and team followers. For instance, the guy who performs the lion head gets the highest pay compared to his other peers.
No wonder they were nudging each other; guess they all wanted a go with the lion head....haha:P


And these 2 lion heads were from the 2nd troupe (one which my young cousin bro worked part time for:)




Stay tune for more pics and video on this!