{"id":292,"date":"2020-02-18T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=292"},"modified":"2020-02-18T20:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:21:11","slug":"icr-reflection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/02\/18\/icr-reflection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ICR Reflection #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feburary 17<sup>th<\/sup>: \u00a0Yesterday we had our second meeting with Benny and Kwan who are representatives from the IACA.\u00a0One of the opportunities we have for the ICR is to learn and perform the lion dance.\u00a0 The lion dance was something I was very unfamiliar with going into our event as I had only seen it performed a few times on Youtube\/TV.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We were originally going to learn and possibly perform the dance at the Chinese New Year\u2019s festival.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this event was postponed due to recent concerns with the coronavirus (many people fly in from various destinations to attend this celebration).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we started learning the dance Kwan taught us two basic movements he wanted us to focus on.\u00a0 First, it was to lift the head up in the air and twist.\u00a0 Then bring the head back down and twist left\/right once again.\u00a0 The job of the person in the tail of the suit is to keep their backed maintained at a 90-degree angle and slowly move their arms to make it appear as if the lion was breathing.\u00a0 I was impressed with how passionate Kwan was about the dance, and it really helped our whole group stay more focused.\u00a0 As we got more comfortable with the lion dance we added more movements and even cheerleaders into the dance.\u00a0 The cheerleaders job is to draw the attention of the lion and make him move up and down.\u00a0Throughout our practice Kwan continued to stress the importance of making the dance fun and attractive for the audience.\u00a0 He even showed us an 8-minute clip from two members of the IACA who had been partners for around 12 years.\u00a0 The way the moved so gracefully was very impressive and you could see how much effort and practice they put into their craft.\u00a0 Overall, I had a great time and look forward to Kwan teaching us more advanced moves in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feburary 17th: \u00a0Yesterday we had our second meeting with Benny and Kwan who are representatives from the IACA.\u00a0One of the opportunities we have for the ICR is to learn and perform the lion dance.\u00a0 The lion dance was something I was very unfamiliar with going into our event as I had only seen it performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}