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Year of the Dog Celebration

By Bruce Asato

Feb. 4, 2018

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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. Jared Chun helps his daughter, Jazzarae, 1, feed one of the lions a monetary gift for good luck and prosperity at Center Court at Pearlridge Center Uptown.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. A large crowd of shoppers watch as Braysen Velasco and Justin Santiago in their lion costume perform their acrobatic lion dance pole jumping exhibition at Center Court at Pearlridge Uptown, doing acrobatic moves on 12" to 14" circular platforms suspended on poles as high as 7 feet. They have been performing the pole jumping lion dance for two years.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. Braysen Velasco and Justin Santiago (seen here jumping from one platform to another )in their lion costume perform their acrobatic lion dance pole jumping exhibition at Center Court at Pearlridge Uptown, doing acrobatic moves on 12" to 14" circular platforms suspended on poles as high as 7 feet. They have been performing the pole jumping lion dance for two years.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. Braysen Velasco, left, and Justin Santiago prepare to don their lion costume for their acrobatic lion dance pole jumping exhibition at Center Court at Pearlridge Uptown, doing acrobatic moves on 12" to 14" circular platforms suspended on poles as high as 7 feet. They have been performing the pole jumping lion dance for two years.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. Braysen Velasco and Justin Santiago in their lion costume perform their acrobatic lion dance pole jumping exhibition at Center Court at Pearlridge Uptown, doing acrobatic moves on 12" to 14" circular platforms suspended on poles as high as 7 feet. They have been performing the pole jumping lion dance for two years.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. The Dragon Dance exhibition performed with dancers carrying a long "dragon" on poles at Center Court at Pearlridge Uptown.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. Two lions appear in front of the L&L Hawaiian Barbecue counter at the Pearlridge Uptown food court to bring prosperity to the business.
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About 40 members of the Wah Ngai Lion Dance Association from Honolulu and the North Shore helped Pearlridge Center to celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Dragon Dance exhibition, a Lion Dance Pole Jumping and five Lions visiting spectators and businesses, Sunday, February 4, 2018. Counter workers from Bautista's Filipino Kitchen in the Pearlridge Uptown food court reach out to feed the lion their red envelopes.
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