Michael Ek Eng Guan 易師傅 2025 Seminar
In August 2025 the Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team (TDDT) hosted a three-day seminar run by Master Michael Ek Eng Guan.
Michael Ek Eng Guan 易師傅 2024 Seminar
In November 2024 we hosted a three-day seminar run by Sifu Michael Ek Eng Guan.
Celebrating diversity
Excerpt ABOVE: The Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team perform Saturday morning during the daylong Slice of Pflugerville festival, which put the spotlight on the city’s diversity. Citation Austin American-Statesman (TX) (Austin, Texas), May 1, 2024: 53. NewsBank: Access World News. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.atxlibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=image/v2%3A16F275EA2D996A88%40AWNB-198B0BC5419BB6BA%402460432-198BFBC405D2C8CB%4052-198BFBC405D2C8CB%40.
Dances with Dragons
Excerpt Spectators watch The Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team perform a Chinese lion dance during the Lunar New Year Festival at the Paper + Craft Pantry in East Austin on Feb. 19. Citation Austin American-Statesman (TX) (Austin, Texas), February 25, 2024: 41. NewsBank: Access World News. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.atxlibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=image/v2%3A16F275EA2D996A88%40AWNB-1973D7B86FE25850%402460366-19763D1727717E1A%4040-19763D1727717E1A%40.
Derek Cheung Tai Lik Johnson 張大力
In February 2023 we hosted a two-day seminar run by Sifu Derek Cheung Tai Lik Johnson. About Sifu Johnson Sifu Derek Johnson started training Jow Ga Kung Fu under the American founder of Jow Ga, Sifu Dean Chin, in the mid 1970’s and was a teenager when Sifu Dean Chin died unexpectedly in 1985. Afterwards …
Dragons and lions dance for the year of the rabbit
Citations Austin American-Statesman (TX) (Austin, Texas), January 29, 2023: 46. NewsBank: Access World News. https://infoweb-newsbank-com.atxlibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=image/v2%3A16F275EA2D996A88%40AWNB-18F2A48D242D89D5%402459974-18F5139AAC393356%4045.
Ringing in the Lunar New Year
Excerpts Top: The Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team performs a Chinese dragon dance at the Lunar New Year Festival at the Paper + Craft Pantry on Sunday. Left: Duc Tran, dressed as Dai Tou Fut, or big-headed Buddha, struts past the crowd during the Chinese dragon dance. The character often accompanies dragon and lion dances and …
Featured Photo
Excerpt Taran Champagne, a member of the Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team, performs lion dance Tuesday afternoon on Gregory Plaza. Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team is a performance driver lion dance group based in Austin, Texas. Sources http://hdl.handle.net/2152/47031
Traditions blend at Lunar New Year fest
Excerpt For the Lunar New Year Celebration, the Lion-Dragon Dance Team [sic] performed in front of hundreds of attendees. Sources http://hdl.handle.net/2152/46890
Winners of photo contest: HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE LUNAR NEW YEAR?
Congratulations to Nirupama Kumar for this winning photo of a Lion Dance! “I was at friend’s house for their son’s birthday party. To celebrate his Chinese-Indian-finnish heritage, The Texas Dragon Dance Team performed a traditional lion dance in their back yard. The sun was streaming in, it was perfect”. Niru is Indian American, from Austin. …
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