![]() ![]() ![]() What is the Dragon? What are we going to learn from Dragon Dancing? What does Dragon Dancing have to do with fighting? Master Woo never really told us directly. The questions about this were always the same. However, they were also required to learn Dragon Dancing. It was remarkable that, in spite of racial tensions, his team was made up of Chinese, Hispanic, and African American youth. A gang controlled almost every block, making it one of the most violent ghetto neighborhoods in America.Ĭhai Meng Woo taught his students from his subsidized apartment in the heart of gang territory. The neighborhood, composed mainly of Hispanic and African-Americans, but also increasingly Chinese because of its proximity to New York's Chinatown, was experiencing rising racial tensions in addition to being ravaged by drug dealing. For over three decades, I went there to train and practice under him both Chinese martial arts and Dragon Dancing. My interest in kung-fu led me to Master Chai Meng Woo, an elderly retired man living in Williamsburg, which at the time was a gang-infested ghetto. I moved to New York in 1976 and lived in midtown Manhattan. His mission is to build a bridge between progressive East and the West media creatives and connect next-gen audiences of all cultureĭRAGONMASTERS: A CULTURAL ODYSSEY is the untold story of the Chinese Dragon in America. He has an undergraduate degree in design and a master's degree in film directing from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Jun is an NYC-Shanghai creative director and film director. Shifu Woo was a Shaolin Master teacher who had studied and practiced traditional dragon dancing in Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s then taught for 40 years in New York City. Rik has taught and coached a dragon team in Calgary and in New York for over three decades. Rik has practiced and researched Chinese dragon dancing in New York and its related traditions with Shifu Chia Meng Woo (胡介民師傅, 1913 -2010) for over 45 years. Currently, he is a Creative Director at Schroeder Inc., a New York content and brand development agency with clients worldwide. Rik Zak is an award-winning creative director and Professor Emeritus at the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts). ![]()
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