Yosakoi in cultural festival

Posted by xilvan [www] 

have you ever see a yosakoi dance ?

yosakoi dance is a traditional dance from japan , it was started in the city of kochi in 1954 . The style of dance is highly energetics with many people who join it , usually in 1 group there is about 15-20 .
and do you know that yosakoi means ” please come at night” 8D

oh yeah if you want to read more about this event you can go to my blog

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Yosakoi in cultural festival
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this is the stage where the MC is talking , some of the photographer is going up to the stage for taking photos.
i thought it was prohibited to go up >.< , so i didn’t go there .

oh yeah , you can see in the banner , there is remo dance too in the festival .
actually remo dance is a traditional dance from indonesia , i didn’t have the chance to take a photo for that dance . T.T

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i wonder do all of you like a traditional dance ? ( something like japan traditional dance)
or you like hip hop , modern dance?

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Yosakoi in cultural festival

and if you still don’t know what yosakoi is ? you should watch this video ~~

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Even japanese also participating in that event , i think she( the middle one in the picture) is not participating in the competition .
but when i saw the dance , i saw some group from a japan community in my town also joining in the event ^^

you can find more picture in my flickr


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    JakeTheFake in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia [www]
    2009/10/19 20:01
    Registered on 2009/01/02. Supernatural Alien Student
     

    This took place in Indonesia . That last pic is a basic for Japanese to do the v-sign .

    Traditional Dance is common in all parts of Asia .

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      xilvan in Indonesia [www]
      2009/10/20 00:00
      Registered on 2009/09/10. Medical School Student
       

      yup that's right , this took place in indonesia and that last pic is a basic v-sign for japanese ^^.

      8D


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