St. John's Lion Dance

Chinese New Year demonstration at St Johns Boys School
March 21

Lion dance team: Master Brinker, drum
Sifu Frietag, gong
Sifu Hayes, cymbals
Sifu Clements, head
Sifu Robertson, tail
Lion used: Kwan Kung

In honour of chinese new year, Silent River did a demonstration for the students at St Johns Boys School (Riverborn kwoon). The demonstration began with the drunken monkey form, preformed by Sifu Robertson. This was followed by an escrima/bokken fighting sequence by Sifu Playter and myself (Sifu Davies). The blackbelt candidates also preformed their musical demonstration (Sifu Turlock, Sifu Wetter, Sifu Davies and Mr Prince were involved). The demo ended with a Lion dance which went perfect! It even had a stacked roll!

There were, of course, a few gliches during the course of the evening. The demo was moved from the gym to the cafeteria at the last minute and all of the mats had to be hauled over. The drum sticks were also temporarily lost (I mean misplaced and it took a bit to get everything organized. Overall, however, the demo went really well and lots of pictures were taken so have a look!

-Sifu Tiffany Davies