Living Traditions Production was created by 4 friends, seasoned lion dancers bringing together over 30 years of lion dancing experience. Gathering their experiences from separate traditional based lion dance teams, the four set out to create an exhibition to broaden the knowledge of lion dancing to the community. The exhibition's goal is to bring forth tradition by allowing many teams, big or small, the opportunity to present themselves and their style of lion dancing, and creating a lion dance network on a larger scale. Because the four are from different schools of martial arts and lion dancing, they understand that as a whole we should stand united and be respectful of each other.

Mission Statement
Living Traditions Productions is a grass roots community organization existing to strengthen, advocate for, and spread awareness of the art of Lion Dancing within the community.

The Vision
The tradition of Lion Dancing has been kept alive and preserved throughout a two thousand year history, proliferating to countries around the world. It is our vision to ensure the continuation of this traditional art form into the next two thousand years and strengthen its growth throughout the Southern Californian community and beyond.

Our Objectives
• Spread Lion Dancing knowledge
• Spread cultural knowledge
• Network
• Draw community support
• Earn community recognition


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Advisors

Sifu Wilson Mah

With a strong martial and performance arts background, Loong Mah has created a Chinese Lion Dance style unseen before by adding new wave techniques to their strong traditional background. Because of this, Sifu Wilson Mah, his family and friends, created Loong Mah Sing See Wui in April 1994, a San Francisco-based nonprofit Chinese Lion Dance group. Sifu Wilson is dedicated to the teach of the art of Lion Dance in order to develop sharing, teamwork, community involvement, and charity among boys and girls as young as age 4. Loong Mah performs regularly for charities, fundraisers, and community, corporate and multicultural events. Sifu Wilson's goals are to expand the knowledge of Lion Dance, to create and add new ideas, but also to prevent loss of traditions from the past.

On the web:

Asian Week: The Voice Of Asian America

Loong Mah's demo video

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Yogi Tam

Yogi started learning the style of Hung Gar Lion Dance at a young age in New York. After finding his love for lion dance he decided to take his knowledge and share it with others. Focusing on traditional power moves, martial arts stances, and old lion dance puzzles he set out to find those who share the same interests. He moved to Southern-California and continues his quest to spread the traditional art of lion dancing. He feels that the tradition is slowly disappearing so he will not turn anyone away if they desire to learn from him. Yogi wants to unite the lion dancing world and create a better generation than what he saw when he was growing up. The children must learn to unite and spread our culture rather than pit it against each other and divide the Lion Dancing community.