Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2008

You might be Romeo tommorow!? / Barbara Murata

Before performance she looks so mysterious with coat, scarf over her　head, sunglasses.
Today's content is "Romeo and Juliet", but there is a director, a fairy... she want so many actors, isn't it? She severely coach them ,even they only appear at opening, for "better" performance.

"Juliet!!"　this time's "Romeo" looked trying to play his role eager　and favorably received. I think he was a good "Romeo". He was so industrious, but by Juliet, adroitly leaded Romeo. Of course there was no way to disobey or no one want to do, and she finished her job.

She makes an appeal for Romeo at first. If you have confidence in your skill of act or special charactor, why don't you try?
She will be pleased.
(Nagapong)

An acrobatic show with full of laughter! / Kojare ta Futari

This famous husband-wife team is now performing for their third time in the Daidougei World Cup. Many of their faithful fans have come from far away to see their performance.

We interviewed a family from the audience before the performance.
"We saw "Kojare ta Futari"'s show last year and our daughter really liked it and wanted to see it again so we bought a guide book and found where they perfom", said the father.

The highlight of the show is the finale, in which Kojrae te Futari use a ladder which revolves between a horizontal bar.They juggle three clubs on the ladder when the ladder is horizontal,
and swing on the ladder while it revolves. Throughout the performance they are always smiling, as if they're just playing around having a good time..

We interviewed them after the show and asked, "Isn't it scary?"
"It is!", they answered, faces drenched in sweat. "We might look we're having fun while doing it, but our act is really dangerous. If either of us makes a mistake, we could both be seriously injured."

Lastly ,they said "This is an acrobatics show, but we want to offer a show that has a sense of humor. We hope everyone will have fun and laugh when they watch the show."
During the show, they asked for volunteers from the audience, and tried to get the audience involved in the show with humor. We felt ourselves absorbed in their performance from
start to finish.

（Risa,Shizuru &Janathan）

Perticular performance / Lucky hands

They have something particular atmosphere because of
they do the performance very siriously.
However it`s certainly one of teire performance,
And probably they concider that how should they do performance!
They play the piano and one of them drops spoons and spoons and........
They have a messege for children that if you have the aims or dreams,
dont`t think anything very easily to do it!
Because if the children think to do something carefully like adults,who will be able to achive them!
So it`s just like their living and performance.

(shun)

Juggling Japanese / Andy Gebhardt

Ciger boxes, balls, sticks...these are not the all things that
Andy Gebhardt amazingly juggles.
He juggles Japanese, too!
Although this is his second time to visit Japan,
his Japanese skill is great.

Has he had special training of Japanese?
...he learns Japanese from Ikebana(Japanese flower arrangement)
teacher in Germany.

"Yesterday, I went Karaoke.
I like Japanese food...sushi, tempura, okonomiyaki(pancakes),
and food with fish."

He seems to have a good impression of Japan and its audience.
You'll be able to see his performance all in Japanese,
when he is next in Japan, probably??
(sudachi)