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Performance Information: Know Before You Go

From Plano AsiaFest Information


Performers can find information here on how to prepare to have a successful performance at AsiaFest.

Apply to perform

Applications for 2025 are closed. Applications for 2026 will be open in February 2026.

Submitting music

Music submission is closed until 2026.

Parking info

Loading permits are available by request. An email has been sent to all performers with information on how one may be requested.

Performers should park away from the Haggard Park parking lot in one of the other parking lots listed on the map below.

Performers are only offered the opportunity to temporarily use the Haggard Park Lot (in the below map, it is labeled by "Haggard Park parking lot is RESERVED") for loading and unloading only. Several spaces will be reserved for immediate loading and unloading only. This helps us reserve enough space for performers and vendors to move things in and out of the festival.

Only authorized people with parking decals can stay parked in the parking lot—performers will not be given parking decals, and therefore cannot remain parked in the lot. When going to the parking lot, please tell the parking lot attendant you are a performer.

The Plano Police Department has directed us to enhance traffic management for accessing the Haggard Park parking lot. To enter the Haggard Park parking lot, you must come on 15th Street from the west to the east. You will then need to wait in the left-turn lane for the parking lot attendant to let you in. Traffic coming from the east to the west will not be allowed to right turn because it will cause a traffic jam and cars may get stuck on the railroad track, which poses a serious safety concern. Please consider taking 14th Street west until H Avenue. Then, right turn onto H Avenue and go north. Finally, right turn onto 15th Street to go east and get into the left turn lane into the Haggard Park parking lot. Even though performers are authorized to enter the parking lot for loading/unloading, all performers must enter by coming from the west going east and left turn into the parking lot. Due to safety concerns and instructions we have received from the Plano Police Department, ALL right turns will be rejected.

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Checking in and preparing for your performance

Please be at the stage at least 30 minutes before you are scheduled to perform, because sometimes the schedule could move earlier or later depending on the situation. Please come to Haggard Park at least 1 hour before your performance.

Our stage is at the gazebo, so you'll want to check in with us at the back of the gazebo. We will provide you with more information on when you are scheduled to go up. Please note: You will be waiting near the gazebo, but not in the gazebo. The gazebo is reserved for the current performance and AsiaFest staff. After finishing your performance, please expediently exit the gazebo to facilitate a smooth transition to our next performance.

We have tents for performers to change their costumes. You may ask our performance coordinators about the tent when you arrive.

The stage size is 24 feet wide and 16 feet deep.

All performers are required to wear dance shoes and/or socks as the stage floor could get very hot. CAAHF and AsiaFest are not responsible for any injury caused by failing to adhere to this requirement.

Please wear sunscreen and bring a bottle of water, as the weather could get very hot. There are food vendors and business vendors in the park all day, so bring some money and enjoy Plano AsiaFest!

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Performance schedule for 2025

Time slot Performer Title of performance Culture / Category
1 10:45-11:05 Lion Dance
2 11:05-11:15 AsiaFest Intro
3 11:15 MC
4 11:20 11:50 Ms. International Texas Parade of Asian costumes Traditional Asian fashion show
5 Star Dancers Beautiful Lake of Songshan Chinese
6 Maharlika Dancers Glimpse of the Philippines Philippines
7 SKN Vietnamese students Binh Dinh Tinh Que Viet Nam
8 Dance Forever Watch a little fun show Chinese
9 Dance E Motion Always Remember Asian Line Dancing Asian line dancing
10 11:50-12:20 Indhu's Dance Studio Bharathanatyam - Vandana Slokas India - Bharathanatyam
11 Indhu's Dance Studio Chinna Kannan India - Classical Dance
12 Indhu's Dance Studio Bharathanatyam - Thisra Alarippu set to Thisra Ekam. India - Bharathanatyam
13 Dallas Huayun Traditional Chinese Music Orchestra Horse Racing Chinese
14 12:20-12:45 Ysabel Rodal Laudes Carnelio Roar by Katy Perry
15 Charishnu performing arts Narashima kautvam Rachana Rao
16 Wang Tao Kung Fu USA Kungfu and Taiji Chinese
17 12:45-1:00 Lion dance
18 1:00 -1:30 Proclamation by Mayor Muns
19 Award presentation
20 1:30-2:00 Dallas Chinese Hanfu Association Hanfu&Guofeng Showcase Chinese traditional clothing
21 Yitong Guzheng Ensamble China-E Chinese
22 JPS Dance School Echoes of Dunhuang Chinese Dance
23 Plano West K-Krew K-pop dance Korean
24 Jessica Maeve Ukulele Philippines
25 Naach5 Entertainment Naach5 Indian
26 2:00-2:30 Yamaha Music School Plano Beach of Shanghai by Jiahui Gu/Dragon Warrior by Jonathan Valenzuela China and Japan
27 Navayukti Dance Academy Bharatanatyam Indian Classical
28 ArtEast North Texas Joy Dance Group Bloom song Uyghur
29 Dancing Starz Bollywood Dance Academy Festival of color India
30 2:30-3:00 DashAvatar Dance Academy Bollywood dance India
31 K Dance Academy Hanuman Chalisa India
32 Vanee School of Dance Kali Kautuvam India
33 3:00-3:30 JPS Dance School Silk Road Drum Dolls Chinese Dance
34 Natyasthalam Vidyalaya Indian Classical Dance - Bharatanatyam India
35 Natyasthalam Vidyalaya Indian Classical Dance - Bharatanatyam India
36 Natyasthalam Vidyalaya Indian Classical Dance - Bharatanatyam India
37 Taiwanese Association of America - DFW Chapter The Time Left Behind Taiwan 70s College Folk Music
38 3:30-4:00 Unix Dance Club K-pop Korean
39 Dancing StarZ bollywda dance Academy Bolly masti India
40 4:00-4:30 Kalayatna Productions Alaypayuthey - Bharatnatyam & Semi-Classical Fusion Indian classical & Semi-classical Dance
41 Cambodian Women Society of Texas (CWST) Robam Neary Chea Chour / Dance of the Khmer Women
42 4:30-5:00 Yitong Guzheng Ensamble Popular Chinese folk culture Chinese
43 Devika Aravindan Indian classical dance - Swagatham Krishna India
44 Orchard Academy Kalanjiyam India (Kerala)
45 World Federation of Kalari and Silambam Kalari Adimurai and Silambam India - Ancient martial arts
46 Chinese Culture Center Pop songs from Hong Kong Chinese
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