Khuan Yee Lion Dance Association - 澳洲群義龍獅會

Khuan Yee Lion Dance Associations

About Us

The Khuan Yee Lion Dancing Association was originally founded in December 2004. The team is a formally structured Association for youths that express a keen interest and love of lion dancing. At present the size of the team stands around 20 with new recruits joining yearly. The standard of training and expectancy of the members’ skill levels are higher than other teams. The reason for this lie in the international level that the team bases it’s standard against. To be able to compete against the rest of the world, the skills and abilities of the Association must be fairly high and consistent.

Our Goals

The aim of the Khuan Yee Lion Dance Association was to create and train a full and professional lion dancing team in order to take part and compete in the World Lion Dance Championships. In addition, the troupe aims to promote the Chinese through its performances within the local community as well as the art of Lion Dancing.

A breakdown of the goals is as follows:

To dramatically improve the standard of Lion dancing throughout the immediate region and later throughout the country.
To consistently represent Australia in major Lion dance championships.in the world.
To foster a understanding of the art of Lion dancing, it’s traditions, meanings and to allow the public to view a appreciate it’s beauty.
To carry on the tradition of Lion dancing and to expose keen practitioners to the proper art.

The World Lion Dancing Championships

The World Lion Dancing Championships is the pinnacle of the ‘sport’. Teams from all over the world collectively meet in either Malaysia or China to win the 20kg trophy. The winner of the Championships is considered the best in the World and school is aptly named the ‘Lion King”.

Through the inclusion of Khuan Yee, Australia had its first representative at the Championships.

In competing, each team is given 12 minutes for the lion to ascend a layout of poles some 3 metres in the air to collect the ‘Choi’. The team that presents the most impressive performance whilst keeping with tradition scores the most points.

Training

The training that the team does is highly intense especially when preparing on the poles. The troupe does insist on teamwork at all times and are very selective in choosing its members. Maintaining a good attitude is just as important and is invariably displayed in our performances.

Our Achievements

At present, the Khuan Yee Lion Dance Association has been very successful in its performances and currently carries a good name throughout the community. The quality in its performances and keeping of tradition ensures this. Hence, within the short period, the Association has performed in such venues and festivities as: Khuan Yee Lion Dance Association

1998, 2001 & 2005 Multicultural Festival (QUT)
1998 Multicultural Festival (held and presented by the ABC)
1998 & 2001 Opening of the International Ball
1999 Philippine Multicultural day
1999 Asian Art Festival (Qld Museum)
1999 Multicultural Festival (Maryborough)
1999 Ipswich Festival
2001 Gayndah Multicultural Festival
2001 Toowoomba Flower Carnival
2001 Goodwill Games Opening Gala
2002 Malaysia Independence Day Ball
2005 Deaflympics Opening Gala
2006 1st National Lion Dance Seminar
Plus over 200 performances for weddings, openings, birthdays, Chinese New Year and Lantern Festivals.

Competitions

2002 Genting World Lion Dance Championships Malaysia – 12th place and Winner of “Champions of the West” Title
2004 Genting World Lion Dance Championships Malaysia – 11th place and Winner of “Champions of the West” Title
2005 Hawaii World Invitational Lion Dance Championships – 2nd place
2006 Genting World Lion Dance Championships Malaysia – attended but unable to perform due to injury

We look forward to working with you soon and thank you for your support.