(Panama America) The Chinese community has 150 years in our country, we looked again. With acrobatics, karaoke, traditional dragon dance, lion dance, dance of the tiger, sales of Chinese products, Chinese cuisine, music, percussion and tuned heart and soul in a desire shared by hundreds of Chinese in our country and million worldwide, began the great Spring Festival on Sunday January 22, the eve of the Year of the Water Dragon in the Convention Center ATLAPA.
Before thousands of spectators accommodated as best they could (on folding chairs in seats they brought from home, standing, sitting on the floor, some children on the shoulders of dad) enjoyed shows where the participating artists of talent made.
Among the groups of artists who participated in the afternoon are the Huang Fei Hong Group, who performed the Dance of the Dragon and Lion Dance.
The program also included Panama’s traditional dance, martial arts, dance bands, karaoke, dancing scarves, Tai Chi Chuan, pageant dresses and dance drums.
Both the dragon and the lion made a ceremonial salute to the personalities and organizers of this great celebration that China is part of the celebrations for 15 days, the Spring Festival, aimed at achieving prosperity, blessings, unity, harmony and other positive things in the new year.
Tomorrow, Monday, in which the conduct and artistic performances will begin in ATLAPA from noon, the program includes (in addition to the participation of Hong Fei Huan Group with Dragon Dance and Lion Dance), martial arts and Zen Temple Shao Lin, dance bands, karaoke (Paulina Cheng), choreography, breakdancing, ballet folklorico, Chinese opera (at 2:15 pm), drum dancing, modeling, accordion, Tai Chi Chuan, ballet (at 5:30 pm), handkerchiefs dancing, karaoke (Enrique Shuo) and conclude with typical dance of Panama (Panama by expressions of folklore).
For the February 15 announced another great show that is part of the celebration of New Year of the Dragon.