The 8th National Dragon & Lion Dance Competition 2014



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The competition is held from Monday 22th to Thursday 25 December 2014. The first two days the venue is Mahkota Parade and the 3rd and 4th day, the venue is Pay Fong Middle School.

The following States send their teams and they are Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, Sarawak, Kedah, Kelantan, Penang, Pahang, Perak, Terengganu, Johor and Melaka.

The President of The Dragon and Lion Dance Federation Of Malaysia wrote a message for the event souvenir program.

" First and foremost, I would like to extend my heartiest congratulations to Organizing Committees of The 8th National Dragon & Lion Dance Championships 2014 and our Dragon & Lion Dances Federation of Malaysia Committee Members for the term 2014-2017.

The Dragon and Lion Dance Federation of Malaysia had a very humble beginning and since our formation, we have developed a close cooperation with the various Lion & Dragon Dance Associations to improve the standard of Lion & Dragon dances in the country. Our Federation has taken a long journey towards being recognized as the official sports body under the Sports Commissioner's Office in charge of regulating dragon and lion dances activity in our country. Being the regulating body of dragon and lion dances, we are drafting a master plan into making dragon and lion dances as a sporting activity instead of a cultural activity.
Currently, our Federation has embarked on a mission to introduce Lion & Dragon Dances to our national primary and secondary schools nationwide by training qualified coaches and judges.

As the role of our Federation is to promote and develop Lion & Dragon Dances as a sporting activity, we will continue to engage with the Education Ministry and Youth & Sports Ministry to achieve our goal of promoting Dragon & Lion Dance as an alternative sports for youth and school children. We also look forward to the continuous close rapport between our Federation and the various Lion & Dragon Dances Association to maintain out status as the world champion in dragon and lion dance. We have always seen great success where our Lion & Dragon Dance troupes are highly recognized internationally. I am proud to announce that we have won 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 4 Bronze medals in the recently concluded 3rd Asian Dragon & Lion Dance Championship in Bali, Indonesia. We also emerged as the World Champion for the International Lion Dance on Stilts Championship held in Macau last month. As such we really hope that the various government bodies could assist our national teams financially to further bring glory to our country. As a matter of fact, our national teams never failed in glorifying our country in international competitions.

Thank you.

Signed
Datuk Martin Lim Soon Seng
President
The Dragon and Lion Dance Federation Of Malaysia. "

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