An egregious oversight rectified

Jul 21, 2009 08:00

My tragic oversight, let me show you it.

In Sunday's polltastic post of polltasticness I failed to show you something crucial about lion dancing.

That would be the fact that in competitive (read: serious) lion dancing, they leap and spin about while on top of ten foot high poles. Since this type of lion dancing is performed by two-person crews, ( Read more... )

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Not to nitpick mr_cyn1cal July 21 2009, 17:28:50 UTC
Paciocco, not Paccioco.

Thanks :)

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Re: Not to nitpick kali921 July 21 2009, 17:32:52 UTC
Fixed. Sorry about that! I HATE it when people don't spell my name correctly, so apologies - I feel your pain.

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canadabear July 21 2009, 19:18:04 UTC
Lion dancing is so awesome and pretty.

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insanitykun July 22 2009, 13:47:52 UTC
Wheee! I love that they manage to portray being animal in addition to awesome acrobatics.

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kali921 July 22 2009, 15:16:11 UTC
The mannerisms that they portray are such an integral part of the dance, and SO fun, aren't they? The lion falling off the poles into a roll, looking shocked, trying again, the whole thing is just AWESOME.

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