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A fellow dancer at Phoenix Chinese Dance Academy helps Lee Sanhunchai fix her makeup during a dance rehearsal in the Dance Center at West St. Paul in January 2022.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ana Shushu remembers the first time she saw a fan of arms extending and retracting in careful, choreographed motion for the Buddha with a Thousand Hands ...

BEIJING — Some say you should dance as if no one's watching. China's 150 million "dancing grannies" prefer to dance as if no one's listening. The seniors spend early mornings and whole evenings jiving ...

Editor’s note: Emily Wilcox is a professor of Chinese studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at William & Mary in the United States and recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim ...

This post was updated May 12 at 8:05 p.m. For UCLA’s Chinese Cultural Dance Club, celebrating Chinese culture is a team effort. The club, founded in 2000, has brought traditional Chinese dance to the ...

The Chinese Heritage of Recreation and Dance keeps traditional Chinese dance alive in the FM area. Traditional Chinese dance is a wonder to behold and to watch. The Chinese Heritage of Recreation and ...

I woke up last Sunday to the news of the shooting in Monterey Park, and my head spun — this was a predominantly Asian American community. In fact, my parents had frequented the Lai Lai Ballroom and ...