Dear liondancers of the world:

Maybe do you remember us. We are a theater company from Spain, looking for help. We are going to introduce a chinese lion at the end of our next show, that's what we want. We have met a teacher here in Spain, but he only knows to dance and make

one kind of lions, and tha's not the kind we are searching. I think we like the northern style, that kind of lion with a more realistic look. Maybe I'm wrong and 'northern' is not the right name. I'm talking about a kind of lion that is hairy, and has a face that looks more to a nice puppet. The other kinds of faces in 'southern' lions are more abstract, barroc, plenty of little things attached all over it. We need a more gentle face. Does any of you have a video tape or a CD showing how to make and dance such lion? Or at least a tape o CD that shows a nice performance of yours? Have you got any friend that could help us?

Thank you very much.

Jose Maria Martinez
The Drawing Man Theater.
http://www.infc.es/~teatre

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Tian Gombau wrote:
> begin 644 Happy99.exe

URGH!

Please don't send these things to this list!! Don't use this mailinglist as a way of spreading viruses either willingly or unwillingly.

Bye,

Serhat

Dear friends, I don't know how this mail came to you, well, I think I just sent one mail today, and that one I'm sure it was not that with the executable. I don't know how it was sent. I'm talking inmediately with my server. PLEASE, EXCUSE ME (and read the other and clear mail)

Jose Maria Martinez

> Serhat Sakarya wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Tian Gombau wrote:
[snip]
> Dear friends, I don't know how this mail came to you,

Hhm.. very simple.. someone else sent you 'happy99.exe' and you executed it. This person most likely didn't send it knowingly or intentionally either. Simply put: you seem to have caught a virus ;-)

The problem is that anybody executing this program you passed on will get the same virus, causing them to pass it on to bunches of other people, etc, etc.

Better learn how to get rid of this thing quickly... I don't know how to myself because I'm mostly working on Unix systems and use Pine as a mail reader so I'm hardly affected by this ;-) Perhaps someone else can give you some advice or you can gather some relevent information from the net.

Good luck,

Serhat Sakarya

Dear friends:

I seem to have sent a little virus without my intention. Please, if you receive a mail through the list, sent by me, that contain a program named

happy99.exe

DONT EXECUTE IT. DELETE IT inmediately. It was sent without my permission, I was no conscient of it. The virus is not dangerous (I hope), but it's a stupid joke.

Excuse me, please.

Jose Maria Martinez
The Drawing Man Theater

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Dear Chris,

We have received your video tape, thanks a lot! Yes, it has not a good quality of image but it's useful for a beginner. We are on our way, we are just sure to introduce a chinese lion on our next show. It will be the surprising finale of the play, cause spanish audiences are not used to such 'animals' ;-)))

Also we have met a guy who seems to be the only one that knows how to dance a lion here in Spain. We have made a contact and he will be our teacher during two weeks in August.

The show is on. It's title: "The World in 80 Masks". You will be informed of our progress.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

Jose Maria Martinez
(The Drawing Man Theater)

Hi dudes...our school is changing names so we're having a grand opening in two weeks plus the attendant lion dance. I'm working on the shoulder lift (standing on shoulder). We're also doing a demo next week at Canada's Wonderland (a theme park near Toronto).

I'm also looking for a present for my SiHing - something to do w/ lion dancing...videos, instructional or otherwise. Haven't finished looking through the lion's den webpage yet...anybody know how to get copies of the Malaysian tournaments??

Bye,
Hugo

Hugo,

Re recordings of Malaysian tournament:

The 1998 lion dance championship is available on VCD format (set of 3 disks - approx 3 hours) from the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation in San Francisco. The cost is $35 which includes shipping/handling in the continental U.S.. For Canada, add $5 for shipping. Clips from this set of VCD can be seen on our web site:

www.liondancer.com

Due to technical limitations, the quality of the clip on our web site is not so good. However, the quality of the actual VCD is professionally done.

you can order this set by sending a U.S. dollar check made out to:

Chinese Performing Arts Foundation

and mail to:

888 Brannan St. #275
San Francisco, ca. 94103

Pls include you mailing address along with the check.

David Lei - e-mail: isdavid@slip.net

Our group is taking a trip to Taiwan in the near future to do a performance. Does anyone know of any places to purchase new lions in Taiwan? Thanks for the help everyone.

Hi Cory,

No pointers for lions in Taiwan but just wanted to wish you a great trip.

Do you know a shop in the Bay Area that sells just the frog buttons on kung-fu outfits? Do you know how to make them? Seem easy enough but the knots we tie all look funny :-(

Stephen.

Hi, Stephen,

If you need frog buttons, Jonie Uniforms on 2409 25th Avenue makes and sells them. I have spoken with her before. Nice lady.

Ernie

Thanks Ernie

Looks like no stop in Hawaii on this trip, but I know they're talking to people there as well as other cities in China. They're trying to time all of this for next year's year of the dragon. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Aloha

Corey