Chinese Dragon New Year Celebrations

CAAN Lion Dance and Drumming Performing Team
Nashville Chinese Dragon Dance Team
Date: 
Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:00

 

Chinese Dragon Dance Team with CAAN’s Lion Dance and Group Drumming Performance (2nd show):

 

Date: Saturday,Jan 28, 2012

Time: 10:00 A.M.-10:25 A.M.

Location: Centennial Park, the entrance near the West End Avenue.

This is a free event for the public. This event supported by Metro Nashville Arts Commission.

 

2012 is the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Dragon.  The Chinese Dragon year is the most significant among the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. The Chinese dragon--symbolizing strength, power, and nobility--is an auspicious legendary creature in Chinese culture.  Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville (CAAN) is conducting series of Chinese Dragon Year Celebration events and activities.

The Chinese New Year Day will be on January 23, 2012. Traditional Chinese New Year season lasts for fifteen days.  Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville will perform a traditional Chinese Dragon Dance using the newly restored 60-foot long dragon prop (*Note).  There are over 20 performers involved with this performance. In addition to the this magnificent dragon dance, CAAN’s Lion Dance and Group Drumming Group will also perform at this special occasion.

CAAN’s director, Jen-Jen Lin, recruited 16 other dragon dancers from the community.  The Nashville Dragon Dance Team will be the first dragon dance team in the Middle Tennessee.  Jen-Jen Lin with assistance of Chinese martial artist Justin Chatman has been coaching this dragon dance team every Sunday morning rain or shine.  The dragon dance is like a sport team, it emphasizes strength, determination, coordination and teamwork.  

-Nashville Chinese Dragon Dance Team
Coach: Jen-Jen Lin
Drummer: Justin Chatman
Dragon Pearl: Annibelle Lin, Holly Echol
Dragon Dancers:  Xiao Wang, Russell Buchi, Alan Jwo, Brian Ruckle, Detang Shi, Valeriya Mihaylova, Bin Zhao, Craig Goodwin, Huizhen Liu, Nathan Roy, Russanne buchi-Fotre, Jiang Li, Zhong Liu, Wenyu Qu. 

-CAAN Lion Dance and Group Drumming Team
CAAN group drumming coach: Jen-Jen Lin
CAAN group drummers: Jen-Jen Lin, Justin Chatman, Brandon Kozlowski, Annibellie Lin
Lion dance coaches: Justin Chatman, Brandon Kozlowski, Jen-Jen Lin, Joseph Rembert
CAAN senior lion dancers: Justin Chatman, Brandon Kozlowski, Joseph Rembert
CAAN big-head buddha: Annibelle LinCAAN student lion dancers: Elizabeth Allan, Anne Oppenheimer, Keri Friedman, Jolene Lei, Jennifer Chen, Jianmei Perkins, Natali Reiman, Wesley Sun, Dennis Sun, Alex Chambers
CAAN lion dance musicians: drummer: Jen-Jen Lin; percussionists: JoTing Wong, Pegah Kadivar, Kim Alan
CAAN technical support: Buist Hardison

-Dragon Restoration Project Team:
Project director: Jen-Jen Lin
Lead Artists: Buist Hardison, MeiYen Cracraft, Dan Buck
Major seamstresses: Christine Lai, Kathleen Harkey, Baoxiang Zhu, Jo Lippe
Volunteers: Valeriya Mihaylova, Catherine Soudoplatoff, Baoxiang Zhu, Guangyong Yang, Julie Buzzell, Brian Ruckle, Alan Jwo, Yingda Wang, Ray Friedman, Tonya Lewis, Christopher Cowley, Linna Ge, Yue Hong Ruckle, , Tonya Davis, ShuMei Lee, Pegah Kadivar, Kim Allan, Jayalakshmi K Lakshmipathi, Haojie Wu, TsoLiang Wang, Ying Lian Du, Xiaohua Wei, Toni Friedman, Tao Yao, Yanchun Liu, Ke Ning Liu Mason, Houston Mason, Hong Wan, Fanglin Zhang, Edith Martinez, Deborah Dodd, Daniel Wang, Chin Zue Chen, Charity Davis, Chantal Brandon, Adrianna Davis,  Sasha Griffith, Keri Friedman, Boying Sun, Tonya Nance
Contact Information: 
ChineseArtsAlliance@gmail.com
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