Sorry for the wait! It’s my fault as I’ve been pretty busy recently with choosing modules for my second year (more on that later) and also starting to think about which university I want to attend in my third year (more on that much later), and taking a mid semester exam. Anyway, last week we performed Soran Bushi for East Asian day just outside the union in broad daylight, making for some great photos. Photos were taken by Joseph (thank you!) and are available on Flickr here.
Pre-Soran
As we are a very drunken important and lazy professional dance team, we never do silly things like pose for group photographs or take silly photographs. Honestly. Did you really come to this site expecting to see that sort of thing?!
Only kidding! I guess this is our promotional photo, although a few members sadly couldn’t make it to this performance, so it’s not a perfect lineup. But it’s close! Here’s the lineup as we are standing in that shot;
Goto, Mo, Naomi, Simon
Taka, Amelia, Mike, Maria, Me
Following this very important photo, nonsense prevailed;
As you can see, Simon was not impressed by our antics, choosing instead to the professional “no-nonsense glance at camera” pose.
Alright kids, enough stalling, start dancing!
Soran Action Photos!
We did the dance twice and both times I think we did a great job. Unlike our earlier performance at the Culture show, we could hear the music from the start and everyone was a lot more confident. Sadly when we stamped on the ground this time there was no sound, but on the flipside people could stand all around us and it was quite exciting for everyone to be visible at all times. No more hiding on the back row getting the moves wrong for me!
As I said before there are many more photos available on Flickr here. Oh well, guess there’s nothing else to say…
HOLD IT!
Super Bonus Video Time! Click here!
Thanks to AJ for filming this one!
That really is it for this update! Stay tuned – I’ve got over the lull of posts and have a few more planned for the nearby future, and if that doesn’t work I’ve warmed up the excuse generator! See you then!
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great video and pictures man, almost makes me wanna join in! You should teach me some day.
I remember when the elementary kids at one of my schools in Miyagi Prefecture used to do the soran dance for their culture festival. They were so good at it. I’ve always loved the music too.
Jamaipanese: As much as I’d love to, I don’t think I could teach it properly. That said, I’m running the entry for the International Culture Festival for next year, so I may have to…
Billywest: My students did it too (although it was slightly different), although they always looked bored when they did it. Not sure how, doing this dance is awesome.
Enjoyed watching the video, looks like you are all enjoying yourselves.
Your ‘promotional photo’ is brilliant. It reminds me of one of those shots you get on movie posters.
Three-Legged-Cat: Thanks :) The promo shot was actually just a random shot that turned out really nicely :)