Red Panda Unicycle Acrobat Halftime Show

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Red Panda Became the NBA's Favorite Halftime Performer
Rong Niu, better known as Red Panda, has become a mainstay at NBA halftime shows across the country. While she performs alone on the court, the long hours and hard training with her father, GuiZhang, prepared Niu for the spotlight

Niu's routine is derived from a traditional Chinese acrobat act. Although her father ramped the level of difficulty, staggering the bowls rim to rim—balancing each dish on merely their curving lines—rather than simply stacking them inside each spacious basin. “Literally everything he decided,” she says. As a 7-year-old, Niu began flicking the dishes skyward while standing on the floor, building the leg strength that would later allow her to master the unicycle. Then after months of pedaling and balancing and maneuvering, she combined the two elements of the performance. For three years, GuiZhang would spend his mornings instructing at the nearby Taiyuan Art School, serving as the manager for its acrobatics program, and return home to mold his protege. Niu’s sister, five years her junior, never took kindly to the sage’s methods. “We didn’t know the line between when we practiced and eating at the dinner table,” Niu says. “We always thought, ‘He’s so serious.’” Every time his daughter dropped a bowl, he doubled over to scoop the miss off the floor. To combat his ailing back, GuiZhang fashioned a massive pair of scissors to retrieve the dishes. “It looks like a one-person act,” Niu says. “In my opinion, it’s two persons’ work.”

Red Panda, whose real name is Rong Niu, was an acrobat act from Season 8 of America's Got Talent. She withdrew from the competition for personal reasons, but she was brought back by Howie Mandel as Wild Card in the Semifinals. She was eliminated again in the Semifinals.

Red Panda was born in Shanxi Province in China and began her training at the age of seven. She studied at the Taiyuan Art School for a total of seven years, where four years into her studies, the Taiyuan Acrobatic Troupe invited her to join. Later, she was recruited by Disney World and worked in Epcot Center for almost two years. Red Panda has been performing for 33 years and has done her act in over 30 countries around the world. She has won two Guinness World Records. She currently works for the NBA halftime show.