CDCSC - Chinese Dance Company of Southern California

CDCSC - Chinese Dance Company of Southern California Based in Orange County, CA, CDCSC is a premier dance company that showcases the beauty of Chinese culture through dance.

First place for “Awakening” at Showstopper 🏆🎀 We are so proud of this piece, this team, and the work behind it.At Showst...
04/10/2026

First place for “Awakening” at Showstopper 🏆🎀 We are so proud of this piece, this team, and the work behind it.

At Showstopper Long Beach, our original work “Awakening” 《伎乐觉旋》, choreographed by Teacher Snow, received Overall 1st Place in the Teen Advanced Super Group, 1st Place in its category, and Double Platinum 1st Place. 🥇 We are grateful for the recognition, and even more proud of what it reflects: discipline, trust, responsibility, and deep commitment to the craft.

🏜️ Inspired by the “jiyue” mural figures of Dunhuang, “Awakening” draws from a cultural world shaped by music, dance, and exchange along the Silk Road. Every breath, every hand gesture, every foot shape, and every shift in energy is intentional. 📿 These choices are grounded in research, training, legacy, and embodied knowledge passed through generations of Chinese dance practice.

That is what makes this work bigger than a single performance, and bigger than a single competition result.

As a Chinese dance company, we do not enter these spaces simply to be seen. We come with a responsibility to carry our movement languages, stories, and cultural lineages with care. 🪭 Our dancers are not only learning choreography. They are learning how to honor tradition, develop artistry, support one another, and represent Chinese dance with integrity on broader stages.

As we celebrate this achievement, we also honor the immense work behind it. Our dancers and teachers worked incredibly hard. 💪 But what matters most to us is not placement alone. It is the standard behind the work. The authenticity. The accountability. The seriousness with which our dancers approach both their art and the culture they represent. 🌠

We are so proud to see “Awakening” resonate in this way, and even prouder of everything our dancers carried with them onto that stage. 💖

“Awakening” 《伎乐觉旋》
🏆 Overall 1st Place, Teen Advanced Super Group
🥇 1st Place in Category
✨ Double Platinum 1st Place
📍 Showstopper Long Beach 2026

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A little Long Beach check-in before the weekend wraps 💖 The first two days at Showstopper have been so much fun, but als...
04/05/2026

A little Long Beach check-in before the weekend wraps 💖 The first two days at Showstopper have been so much fun, but also such an important reminder of what competition spaces can give dancers beyond the stage.

Faster growth. Sharper focus. More confidence. Stronger team trust. The chance to learn under pressure, take in professional feedback, and come back even more grounded in the work. 🏆🎀

🪭 And as a Chinese dance company, that experience carries extra meaning for us. We’re stepping into a broader dance space while staying rooted in our own movement language, artistry, and cultural foundation. That takes discipline, courage, and a lot of care from every dancer on the team.

So here’s to the backstage laughs, the support system, the little in-between moments, and the kind of growth that doesn’t always show up in a score sheet. So proud of this team 🫶

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See you in Long Beach as we take Chinese dance to the competition stage again. 🎀This weekend, CDCSC will be competing at...
04/04/2026

See you in Long Beach as we take Chinese dance to the competition stage again. 🎀

This weekend, CDCSC will be competing at Showstopper in Long Beach, and we’d love to have our community there to support. 🫶 For us, competitions like this are a special kind of space. Not a Chinese cultural festival, not a holiday event, but a broader dance stage where Chinese dance enters into conversation with many other forms, audiences, and performance traditions.

☁️ As a company rooted in Chinese dance, we care deeply about carrying our movement languages, aesthetics, and stories into spaces where they are not always expected, and presenting them with clarity, confidence, and artistic weight.

If you’ve only seen us at cultural celebrations or theater performances, this is a different way to experience our work. The energy is faster, the setting is electric, and the dances meet a new kind of audience. We’re proud to keep showing that Chinese dance belongs here too. 🪭

Our performance times are below if you’d like to come cheer on our dancers in person. We hope to see some familiar faces there. 💖

✨ Thursday, April 2
4:11 PM
6:51 PM
9:35 PM

✨ Friday, April 3
9:39 AM
6:02 PM
6:18 PM

✨ Saturday, April 4
11:27 AM
2:19 PM
6:07 PM
6:22 PM

Please note that competition events can sometimes run a little ahead or behind schedule, so we recommend arriving early if you’re hoping to catch a specific dance.

CDCSC at Showstopper Long Beach
📍 Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center
🎟️ Audience admission is free
🗓️ April 2-4, 2026
📱 A livestream is also available through Showstopper’s website or app

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Photography: Yang Gu, Lei Huang, , Rain

A civic stage, a historic first, and Chinese dance in the center of it. 🌆Last month, CDCSC was honored to be part of Irv...
03/29/2026

A civic stage, a historic first, and Chinese dance in the center of it. 🌆

Last month, CDCSC was honored to be part of Irvine’s inaugural Lunar New Year Parade and Festival at Great Park, a major new civic gathering in one of Orange County’s fastest-growing cultural hubs. 💥 For us, this was more than a seasonal appearance. It was a chance to bring Chinese dance into shared public space, where families, neighbors, and first-time audiences could encounter it as part of the living cultural fabric of the city.

As a company based in Irvine, that carries real significance. We train here, grow here, and return to the community not only as performers, but as cultural ambassadors shaped by this place and responsible to it. To dance in both the parade and festival of a first-of-its-kind citywide event, alongside so many community groups, was to help mark what Asian American cultural visibility can look like in the public life of the city we call home. 🏮

This is part of CDCSC’s work. Not only preserving Chinese dance onstage, in theaters, or in the studio, but helping it take its place in the everyday spaces where public memory is made. At Great Park, Chinese dance was not on the margins. It was visible, welcomed, and woven into the civic life of the region.

🪭 Thank you to the Asian American Museum at Great Park, the City of Irvine, and South Coast Chinese Cultural Center, one of CDCSC’s co-founding parent organizations, for helping create a public moment of this scale and spirit. We are proud to have contributed to its first chapter. 💫

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Some details only reveal themselves up close. 🦋From the audience, you feel the full sweep of the stage. Here, another la...
03/26/2026

Some details only reveal themselves up close. 🦋

From the audience, you feel the full sweep of the stage. Here, another layer comes forward. The line of a wrist, the direction of a gaze, the weight of a costume in motion, the way a prop extends breath and intention through space. 💫 These are not small details to us. They are part of how Chinese dance carries meaning.

At CDCSC, that matters deeply. We care not only about the big picture of performance, but about the specificity that gives each work its character. The softness of a sleeve, the clarity of a hand shape, the grounded strength behind a turn, the distinct textures that separate one movement lineage from another. Up close, you can see more clearly that Chinese dance is not one look or one feeling. It’s a richly detailed practice shaped by regional forms, cultural memory, and embodied discipline. 🪭

📸 These images from our O.C. Lantern Festival performance hold some of that for us. Not a replacement for live performance, but another way of seeing it. Another way to notice what passes quickly onstage, and to appreciate the care, training, and artistic choices that live inside each moment. 🌷

Thank you again to O.C. Lantern Festival for welcoming us back as we closed another Chinese New Year performance season in movement and community. 🏮

Choreography:
Photography: Lei Huang, Rain, Ken L

From spring light to spring labor, our outdoor O.C. Lantern Festival program moved through another side of Chinese dance...
03/21/2026

From spring light to spring labor, our outdoor O.C. Lantern Festival program moved through another side of Chinese dance. 🌼

Revisiting these dances on 春分 chūn fēn, the Chinese solar term known in English as the Spring Equinox, adds another seasonal layer. This year it also coincides with 龙抬头 lóng tái tóu, Dragon Head-Raising Day, a traditional Chinese spring marker tied to renewal and the rising energy of agricultural life. Their overlap is rare, appearing only three times this century, and it brings these dances into a new conversation with the season. 🌱🐉

Featured in our outdoor program, in the order they appear in this post:

🌈 “Vibrant Brocade of Zhuang” 《壮锦涟漪》
Inspired by 壮锦 zhuàng jǐn, the colorful brocade tradition of the Zhuang people, this work turns textile beauty into movement shaped by nature and joy.

👯‍♀️ “Bond” 《牵》
A Chinese classical duet inspired by paired female figurines from Luoyang. Through closeness and return, it reflects companionship and quiet strength.

🌸 Chinese classical round fan dance
The round silk fan, also called a palace fan, is a traditional Han Chinese object linked to grace and auspicious meaning. In dance, it extends breath, line, and rhythm.

🌿 “Joy in the Mulberry Fields” 《采桑舞》
Inspired by Han dynasty folk poetry, this dance follows young women into mulberry fields at dawn. Light and lively, it carries spring freshness and the rhythm of labor.

🏜️ “A Leisurely Journey Through the Mortal World” 《尘世闲游》
A Dunhuang inspired classical work shaped by wind, sand, and memory, moving between earthly life and inward freedom.

This is what we hope people encounter in Chinese dance with us. Not a single image of “tradition,” but a living language of form, feeling, memory, and regional knowledge. Like spring, it carries continuity and renewal at once. 🌷

Thank you to O.C. Lantern Festival for welcoming us back again as we close another Chinese New Year performance season through movement, seasonality, and community. 🪻

Choreography:
Photography: Rain, Ken L, Lei Huang

From festive folk energy to quiet classical restraint, our O.C. Lantern Festival program moved through many textures of ...
03/17/2026

From festive folk energy to quiet classical restraint, our O.C. Lantern Festival program moved through many textures of Chinese dance. 🏮

For years, this event has marked the close of our Chinese New Year performance season, a chance to share not only celebration, but range across regional forms, movement lineages, and emotional worlds. 🪭

Featured in our main stage program, in the order they appear in this post:

🐎 “Echo of the Nomad Hymn” 《禄马赞》
Mongolian Andai inspired movement meets contemporary dance in a tribute to resilience, freedom, and the horse, rooted in traditions from Inner Mongolia.

🌙 “Moon Foxes” 《月狐吟》
A Mongolian dance inspired work following three foxes in freedom, play, and quiet reverence for nature.

🐟 “Festival Dolls” 《年画娃娃》
A bright Han folk dance inspired by New Year imagery and 年年有鱼 nián nián yǒu yú, a blessing for abundance.

🌺 “Blossoming” 《索玛花开》
A Yi dance trio honoring women’s strength through the soma flower.

🌧️ “Whispers of Spring” 《且吟春雨》
A reflection on first rain, renewal, and life beginning again.

🌫️ “Veiled in Mist” 《如烟》
Chinese classical dance shaped by breath, softness, and lingering feeling.

🔔 “Dancing Bells” 《铃铛少女》
A lively glimpse of Uyghur dance through musicality, agility, and detail.

🌾 “All Grown Up” 《悄悄长大》
A Northeast Yangge piece full of innocence, curiosity, and growing courage.

🦋 “Echoes of a Lingering Summer” 《思蝉》
A D**g inspired work on stillness, nature, and quiet awakening.

🪷 “Lotus” 《莲》
A contemporary classical piece about inner steadiness and quiet strength.

🌿 “Song of the Yue Maiden” 《越女词》
A Jiangnan inspired dance of flowing grace and poetic elegance.

This is part of what we hope audiences feel when they experience Chinese dance with us. It is not one image, one mood, or one story. Like Chinese culture itself, it is multiple, layered, and alive with different regional histories, aesthetics, and ways of moving through the world. 🌠

Thank you to O.C. Lantern Festival for welcoming us back once again as we closed out another Chinese New Year performance season with movement, color, and community. Outdoor performance recap soon! 🌸🏮

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