The Committee and Instructors

President - Cecilia Hsieh 薛寶琳

1982 - Started Futsan lion dance training with Sifu Deng Chi Tang

1999-2008 – Lion Dance Team Manager for the Chinese Masonic Society

2006 – Attended Hoksan seminar conducted by Sifu Siow Ho Phiew

2007 – Attended a Futsan lion dance workshop in Futsan, China, conducted by the Huang Fei Hong Nanhai Zhonglian Cable Lion and Dragon Dance Institute

2008 – Recipient of the Lord Mayor’s award for Community Service

2008 – Attended a Lion Dance Judging course conducted by Sifu Siow Ho Phiew

Qualified National Lion Dance Judge

Licenced Pyrotechnician

Member of Australian Pyrotechnics Association (Vic)

Secretary of the Australian Lion and Dragon Dance Association

Member of the Australian Chinese Events Committee (2009)

Hong De team member at Resorts World Lion Dance Competition, Sentosa 2011

Disciple of Master Siow Ho Phiew (May2015)

Disciple of Master Roger Ting Wan Kee (Aug2015)

Committee member of International FuZhou Dragon Alliance

Vice President - Denis Leung Cheun 粱豪賢

1992 - Started Futsan lion dance training in Mauritius

2015 – Disciple of Master Roger Ting Wan Kee

Licenced Pyrotechnician

Chinese Secretary - Vincent Lui 呂達文

2000 – Started Futsan lion dance training

2006 – Attended Hoksan seminar conducted by Sifu Siow Ho Phiew

2008 – Attended a Lion Dance Judging course conducted by Sifu Siow Ho Phiew

Qualified National Lion Dance Judge

Member of the Australian Lion and Dragon Dance Association

Licenced Pyrotechnician

Qualified International Lion and Dragon Dance Judge and Coach (2014)

Disciple of Master Siow Ho Phiew (May2015)

Scoring Judge at the World Lion Dance Championship, Genting 2016

Dragon Coach - King Long Ching 曾劲龙

King is a dragon dance enthusiast since his childhood days watching the local dragon dance team training and performing in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It was not until his teenage years that he joined a local dragon dance team, Hua Tiong Wushu Association Johor Bahru, where he learned the art and skills from the seniors who won the 2002 World Luminous Dragon Dance Competition in Hong Kong. While studying at Melbourne in 2003, he met the members from Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne Dragon Dance Team whom were learning the technical movements from videos. Under King’s guidance, the team develop their skills to a whole new level. During 2008, he imparted a great deal of dragon dance expertise and experience in fitness training to Western Australia Chin Woo. The team awe the audiences with their agile and technical movements. In 2009, they were invited to Johor Bahru, Malaysia to the historic annual Chingay event to perform alongside the Hua Tiong Wushu Association Johor Bahru Dragon Dance Team. Between 2011-2015, he assisted the coaching of Hua Tiong Wushu Association Johor Bahru Dragon Dance Team. He was also part of the coaching team for the 2012 (7th) Malaysia National Dragon and Lion Dance Competition. In 2019, King completed the International Dragon and Lion Judge and Coaching Course in Singapore.

Lion Coach - Tai Tran 

Public Officer/Book Keeper - Robin Taranto

Ex Committee Members and Coaches

2008 Treasurer - Steven Leung 

2008-2012 Lion Coach - Ernest Tan 陳保延

2009-2011 Lion Coach - Colin Liew  劉永強

2008-2018 Secretary - Stanley Tan

2018 - 2020 Committee member - Norine Ma