A TRADITIONAL lion and dragon dance troupe will not be doing their usual routines this Chinese New year, instead they will perform the much rarer snake dance to celebrate the Year of the Snake ...

Chicago heralds the Lunar New Year, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake. People cheer as a lion dance is performed in the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown on Feb. 9, 2025.

(Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are ... in the Year of the Snake in Leong Nam temple in Singapore. (Caroline Chia/Reuters) A lion dance performance ...

For Yu, 36, of Union Township, the dance is a point of pride. “What I enjoy most is having an avenue to delight people,” said ... 2025 marks the Year of the Snake, a sign of intelligence ...

The Red Deer and District Chinese Community Society hosted its annual Lunar New Year celebration at Festival Hall on Saturday ...

More than a billion people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year. A traditional lion dance performance in ... the first new moon of the Year of the Snake will mark the imminent ...

"I've found snakes on bed frames before. But never inside a pillow," snake catcher Daniel Busstra said Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

hundreds of millions of people across Asia celebrated the Lunar New Year on Wednesday, ushering in the Year of the Snake. In China, people enjoy eight consecutive public holidays for the 2025 ...

These qualities have translated into cultural beliefs about people born in the year of the snake. For instance, for those born in this year, the snake’s flexibility and patience are seen as ...

Music and dance performances also lit up Navy Pier on Feb. 1 to ring in the Year of the Snake as part of its Global Connection Series. People perform a dragon dance in the Lunar New Year parade in ...

Chinese metaphysics consultant Vicki Iskandar tells PEOPLE exclusively what the Wood Snake will bring in 2025 and if it will differ from the Wood Dragon in 2024 Skyler Caruso is a Writer and ...

This year’s celebration ushered in the Year of the Snake ... “The lion dance was my favorite event,” said Naomi Chong, an attendee and CSOM ’28. “It was fun to see a performance that is so important ...