Two Lion Dance Stories

Once upon a time, there was a cheerful lion staying in the jungle. Whenever the lion heard some music, he would start to dance.

One day, the lion was hungry and went to village to find some food. The lion saw a small child and wanted to catch the child and eat him. The child ran as fast as he could but lion ran even faster, and alsmost caught the child. The parents were shouting and hitting drum, tried to scare of the lion. To their surprise, the lion stopped chasing the child when he heard the drum play. He even started to dance! So the child's parents kept playing the drum until the lion was too exhausted and died.

The parents then cut down the lion's skin, put some colour on the skin, and danced happily with drum, to celebrate their child staying alive. All the neighbours came to celebrate with them.

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Under the instruction of the school, Joanne and Lucas form a team to take part in inter school lion dance competition, which will be held in a week time. They have been practising very hard and every movement is perfect. But their teacher still thinks something is lacking. "It is the feeling," the teacher tells them, when they ask.

The teacher then decides to bring Joanne and Lucas go to the zoo, to observe the real lion. "You need to observe every single movement of the lion, how it walks, runs, jumps, hops, leaps, bounds, squats, rolls, sleeps, eats, shits, pees, hunts, shakes, etc." Instead of practising the lion dance, teacher brings them to the zoo everyday. Even the zoo keeper is puzzled, "why these two little children come to the zoo everyday, and standing in front of lion's den for few hours?"

On the competition day, they perform the best ever lion dance that all judges have ever seen...