TAKAMATSU STREET PERFORMANCE
2011年10月07日
For the second October in two years, Art Setouchi helped bring seven very exciting street performers to Takamatsu in what we hope will be an annual event named ‘Takamatsu Dai Do Gei Festival’. Last year they did their stuff in the streets of Takamatsu. Pantomime, acrobatics, music, juggling and painting performances in the Dome area downtown but this year they divided the programs between Sunport, near the station and the shopping arcade Dome area.
This is all very exciting. Just the thing to chase away the blues and cheer us all up. It certainly did for me …
Hibi Chazz-K started the ball rolling belting out some great music. These kids are very talented and can do it all; jazz, pop, hip-hop, rock. The lot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTROoGqIfOM&feature=related
http://chazz-sax.com/e/
Dark Krakou a French street performer came back this year, too. Dark Krakou is quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Menacing, gigantic, just plain frightening and the kids loved it. This performer is very agile on stilts and it was pretty amazing to see how fast he could run around with a throng of kids yelling and screaming running behind in tow. Every once in a while he’d stop, whip off some unsuspecting person’s hat and place it on a tree out of reach. Pretty funny … and I hope they got back. Maybe they didn’t?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yBIz-r9aMo
My guess and yes, that’s not good enough so I’ll follow up, is that they’ll be back again next October. I will check that and report back before the event, so if you’re in Takamatsu please do check these out through the Takamatsu Tourist Information Center near the Takamatsu JR Station.
http://www.takamatsu.or.jp/eng/
Keep all those cards n’ letters coming in and leave a comment if you wish. Suggestions for the blog are always welcome so until next week.
"Pat has lived in Takamatsu continuously since arriving here on a one year study and leave 1981. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he was involved in education at a variety of levels including as a specialist teacher for children with learning difficulties, and at senior high schools throughout the state. Pat is employed full-time by the i-pal Kagawa International Exchange as a co-oridintaor for international relations amongst other duties including traveling to schools and giving talks in Japanese to kids about Australia. He has been involved with youth education exchanges between Japan and Australia for many years.
Pat has been many things in his colorful life including a seaman, helmsman, welder, carpenter, traffic warden, scholarship/studentship winner at the university of Tasmania, staff at the Australian Embassy in London to name but a few. Pat has far too many hobbies which include tennis, playing jazz flutes and saxes, riding bicycles with the Takamatsu Cycling Club all of which his long-suffering family tolerate. Recently he's become interested in painting again. His wife wishes he would put more time in to helping around the house and the garden which he artfully avoids ..."
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Posted by pat at 18:32
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I missed this. Too bad. It looks like the same group, the musicians at least, that Marugame-machi invited to the Halloween festival last year. I am glad that you got the opportunity to see them, but sad that I couldn't see them again. Ho!
Posted by R.T. at 2011年11月01日 14:15
