These are pics of the forementioned dragon dancing. Technically, it is dragon and lion dancing. The top picture is the dragon dancing, about 10 boys with long poles supporting the cloth dragon and performing intricate maneuvers on the ground. The second picture is the lion dancing and this is only 2 boys, one playing the head and one the tail. This performance is actually very dangerous since it is performed on tall pedestals and involves leaping from one to another with intervals of delicate balancing with the tail supporting the head or vice versa. Unfortunately one team had a mishap and one of the dancers was taken away on a stretcher.
These are traditional performances and part of celebrations of all types from weddings to ribbon cuttings and especially new years. How exciting it was to be the only westerner at this so very Vietnamese performance. A friend recently told me my face has a slightly Asian cast. To paraphrase a popular song from a few years back, "I think I am turning Vietnamese."
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