Ahmad Syahmi Mirza Ahmad Fadhil, 19, certainly has the “credentials” to make such a call as he has put in effort to learn other cultural practices. As for the lion dance, Ahmad Syahmi learnt the traditional dance in Year Six, when his class was asked to come up with a graduation performance. As one of his classmates was a lion dancer, Ahmad Syahmi said his class teacher got the idea to get the pupils to perform a lion dance. “She contacted a lion dance boss, who agreed to help us with the performance.”He volunteered to be a lion dancer since “it sounded like fun”. “As a lion dancer, sometimes I have to be the one holding the lion head and sometimes the tail.

Source: The Star September 11, 2020 23:34 UTC