No, not line dancing, LION Dancing!

Colorado Asian Cultural Heritage Center's Lion Dance troupe at the 2013 CDBF. (Photo by Claudia Hernandez-Ponce)You've seen Lion Dances during Chinese New Year celebrations, and at the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival. But you haven't seen Lion Dances from so many troupes in one place before!
For the first time, the 2014 Colorado Dragon Boat Festival presents a Lion Dance Extravaganza featuring multiple local groups competing with each other to promote and educate people about the martial arts and acrobatic skills that are needed to perform Lion Dances. Lion Dancers have to challenges themselves be as realistic as possible, with lion-like movements created by the two people within the costume.
The participating teams are:

• National Martial Academy Team A & B
• Colorado Asian Cultural Heritage Center
• Great Wall Chinese Academy
• Tai Kung Ha

The Lion Dance Extravaganza will take place from 3:30-5 pm on Sunday during the festival, at the festival's Gateway To Asia Explore Asia Stage, sponsored by Regis University.
Read more about the Lion Dance Extravaganza on Facebook!
Here's a cool video that introduces Lion Dancing:

What is Lion Dance? from Peter K Pham on Vimeo.