The Year of the Dragon hits fever pitch with this weekend’s Twilight Parade

 

First published on . Updated on 30 Jan 2012.

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With over 2,900 performers, the Twilight Parade is the centrepiece of Sydney’s Chinese New Year celebrations. Under lavender twilight, the parade weaves its serpentine way from Town Hall to Chinatown under a sky illuminated by giant façade projections. This year, in addition to the usual street art, dancers and acrobats, representations from Chengdu are bringing a giant panda float, singers and dancers. They will join groups from Beijing, floats from local Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese communities, and a shimmering tide of lanterns, fire breathing and martial arts culminating in a Dragon Ball like the one held at Sydney’s Trocadero from the 1930s to the 1950s. And following the Parade there’ll be a stunning display of - what else? - fireworks.  

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