Another Festival
By Wakako Kojima :: November 3, 2003
You wouldn’t be able to tell from the picture, but they’re all teachers: three male and seven female, including me. We became cheergirls wearing mini skirts, pink outfits, and of course make-up. Before the event, we practiced dancing for three hours a day.
We danced at the Culture Day festival in my high school. Many students got excited. Well, we enjoyed ourselves very much, but the most important thing for me was to show them how to enjoy themselves.
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Rudolf :: November 3, 2003
There must be something about Culture Day and dancing. Tonight, I went to see Karadakara X (the site is Japanese only, and not a pretty sight) at the Bunka Center, where the English Department’s very own Shioda Hiroko-san performed with the university’s Dance Club.
The show was hugely entertaining, and the Dance Club staged, amongst other things, the Crab Dance they took to the Kobe National Dance Festival earlier this year. Don’t ask me about these sea things; I grew up in the mountains, far from any ocean, but there appears to be a particular type of crab (or some such animal) that needs a particular Hole in the Rock for a home. The Dance Club performed their piece around a number of those Holes in the Rock, which were represented by big painted plastic barrels which the performers heaved around the stage and jumped in and out of. Obviously, the piece was some sort of commentary on human dating/mating behaviour, but I didn’t quite get it: in the end, all the Girl Crabs got their own Hole in the Rock and all the Boy Crabs were left outside looking unhappy and distressed about everything? Maybe somebody could explain. Hiroko-san, Miwa-san?
Shortly before the show I met Kaze Hiroko-san, a former student of mine. I told her about Tawawa and she sounded fairly enthusiastic about it; it just looks like we have another contributor right here, which is great news. Just imagine she’ll start posting and we’ll instantly gain the thousands and thousands of her male admirers as new Tawawa readers: we’ll be bigger than Channel 2!
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There must be something about Culture Day and dancing. Tonight, I went to see Karadakara X (the site is Japanese only, and not a pretty sight) at the Bunka Center, where the English Department’s very own Shioda Hiroko-san performed with the university’s Dance Club.
The show was hugely entertaining, and the Dance Club staged, amongst other things, the Crab Dance they took to the Kobe National Dance Festival earlier this year. Don’t ask me about these sea things; I grew up in the mountains, far from any ocean, but there appears to be a particular type of crab (or some such animal) that needs a particular Hole in the Rock for a home. The Dance Club performed their piece around a number of those Holes in the Rock, which were represented by big painted plastic barrels which the performers heaved around the stage and jumped in and out of. Obviously, the piece was some sort of commentary on human dating/mating behaviour, but I didn’t quite get it: in the end, all the Girl Crabs got their own Hole in the Rock and all the Boy Crabs were left outside looking unhappy and distressed about everything? Maybe somebody could explain. Hiroko-san, Miwa-san?
Shortly before the show I met Kaze Hiroko-san, a former student of mine. I told her about Tawawa and she sounded fairly enthusiastic about it; it just looks like we have another contributor right here, which is great news. Just imagine she’ll start posting and we’ll instantly gain the thousands and thousands of her male admirers as new Tawawa readers: we’ll be bigger than Channel 2!