Remember way back, when I posted those pictures of me looking like a bit of a total fool in my Shorinji kit? Or in a Yukata? Or a Kimono? Well, fan favourite “Mike doing weird stuff” is back with a whole new theme; traditional dancing!
This year’s annual International Culture Evening, held by the University Of Sheffield, will be on April 19th, and will be followed on the 20th by Japan Day. At both of these events I, along with a group of other scared individuals, will be performing a traditional fisherman’s dance from Hokkaido called Soran Bushi. (ソーラン節)
As we only just started to learn it, I can’t really provide any photographs or video evidence of how terrible amazing our dance troupe is yet, so instead I thought I’d provide you with two fun alternatives. The first is the song we will be dancing to:
Sorry, not available anymore :(
But wait, there’s more! The Japan Society did this dance two years ago and uploaded a video of it to Youtube! Enjoy!
I’ll try to take my camera to the next practice. If the other dancers will allow me to take photos (they won’t).
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Awesome mate, I’m back for the holidays then so I’ll definetly be along to watch (and laugh), but mostly to laugh. And maybe shed a tear or two as an ancient culture is destroyed.
Will: Excellent stuff. I hope by watch and laugh you mean “support”.
OMG!
its excatly the same one as me, omg, please send this to me via email?
This brings back such a good feeling, even though its 2am I can’t help but wanna get up and dance….
can’t wait to see your video…..
gambatte ne.
Nate: Will do :) We’re performing it twice and hopefully both performances will be filmed and photographed, then shamelessly uploaded to this blog :)