2024 Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade Entry
The Northwest Chinese Alliance was thrilled for our twelfth consecutive participation in Portland Rose Festival’s Grand Floral Parade! This year, we took immense pride in representing the Portland Chinese community with a captivating dance performance “Elephant King’s March” featuring stunning new costumes, flowing silk fans, and graceful movements. More
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2023 Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade Entry
Our 2023 Grand Floral Parade dance, “the Lotus Pickers”, showcased the beautiful lotus flowers and the happy and enchanting experiences of the beautiful lotus pickers. The Northwest Chinese Alliance created and presented a strong team of 40+ dancers with our returning volunteer dance troupe members as “lotus flowers” and a team of dancers from the Jade Dance Team as the “lotus pickers”. We were so proud to be returning to the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade with this new dance performance to celebrate the renewal spirits of the post-pandemic era. More..
2022 Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade Entry
The Northwest Chinese Alliance was proud to represent the Chinese Community of Greater Portland at the 2022 Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade with a new dance, “Life Goes On With the Drum Beat Dance”. Since Early 2020, the pandemic had been a big challenge for people all over the world. We were so glad to be celebrating our reunion at the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade with a new dance designed to energize people, forge a sense of unity and express the best wishes for the post-pandemic era. More..
2020 Rose Festival Grand Petite Parade Entry
The 2020 Grand Petite Parade entry, titled “Fun Times in Rose City Petite Float”, showcasing the Chinese Pavilion decorated with a small boy playing flute, many lovely flowers and a group of special bicycles and tricycles – many were handmade and collected from England. More..
2019 Chinese Community of Greater Portland Grand Floral Parade Entry
We had another great Grand Floral Parade performance in 2019 with 28 dedicated dancers from the Chinese Friendship Association of Portland Dance Team and the Portland Chinese Dance Troupe. Please read the details in this link.
2018 Chinese Community of Greater Portland Grand Floral Parade Entry
In 2018, we have taken our community cultural outreach efforts to another level by joining forces with our many Greater Portland Chinese Community parters to co-sponsor a three-part entry in the 2018 Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade. We have combined our normal Chinese dance performance with the Portland Lee’s Association Lion & Dragon Dance Team with an elegantly designed floral float to create a very dynamic entry.
Read about the very special details, the sponsors list and the actual performance.
2017 Grand Floral Parade Performance
The 2017 dance is titled “Ladies in Rainy City”. This dance shows that on a rainy day, at a place in Southern China, the raindrops are rhythmically pitter-pattering on banana leaves, a group of ladies are holding umbrellas, walking lithely and gracefully, dancing lightly and ripplingly, playing happily and joyfully in the rain. Their shoes are beating briskly on the beats of the music, and the silky umbrellas are dancing and flying over their heads. It is such a graceful and lovely dance, perfectly suited for the rainy City of Portland. Please click here for more details.
2016 Grand Floral Parade Performance
We again had another wonderful entry in the 2016 Grand Floral Parade. We had another beautiful entry with 40 dancers in two different formations.
2015 Grand Floral Parade Performance
For 2015 Grand Floral Parade, we had a team of 39 strong, with 2 groups of colorful dancers. This year’s performance highlighted the Chinese Opera dance performance.
2014 Grand Floral Parade Performance
We entered a team of 44 strong, with 2 groups of colorful dancers for the 2014 Grand Floral Parade. The audiences lining up Portland streets all shouted “Beautiful, Beautiful..” Indeed, the dancing group looked magnificent.
2013 Grand Floral Parade Performance
2012 Grand Floral Parade Performance
2011 Grand Floral Parade Performance
Please visit each individual pages about each year’s performance and team!
