Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2010

Catch up his new version of the pantomime!/Koyo Yamamoto

His familiar pantomime "Charlie Yamamoto" is upgraded every year and new performance "Ashika-chan" is debuting in Shizuoka.
He said, "Here in Shizuoka, I always try to show the new entertainment. Because I can get an immediate audience reaction in Shizuoka. If Shizuoka people did not like it, it's would be not good everywhere in Japan."



In his career, he joined Rakugo club in the high-school and did acting and then got to learn pantomime in the USA.
In recent years, he works as an actor, for example, he appeared on stage of an opera.

(Eri)

Romance blossoms in the air/FULLSTOP ACROBATIC THEATRE

A couple, Vicki from England and Wibbe from Netherlands performs an acrobatic show.
They use a 10 meter white cloth and a just ordinary chair (bought in IKEA).
They climb the white cloth high up and wind it on their legs or arms.

Their show is a romantic love story in the air wih a gracefull piano sound.
They say they want to show not only acrobatic performance but also a performing art to audience.
YES, IT IS THE ART. That is a beautifull art in an open-air theater.

(uluru)

Welcome to Pote's nongravity world!!/Pote

Wearing exotic clothes, Pote, whose hairstyle is like a pineapple
takes us to a nongravity world!

In his show, a crystal-clear stick goes up in the air,
and the silver hoops seem gravityless.
Also, his unique item named Bugen moves like a creature
and it looks so creepy. He smiled and said that
words like "creepy" is the best praise for him.

If he controls his favorite trick "contact balls",
it starts to spin around as if they are living.

"I want to perform without throwing things," he said.
He is may be a nongravity magician.



(Kana)

"KENDAMA" is not just a toy but a kind of sports !!/Kendamashi YUSUKE ITO

YUSUKE ITO who has 10 career Kendama championships of Japan.
His kendama show is good old-fashioned style, wearing blue Kimono and playing Kendama with the traditional Japanese instruments of Shamisen.
Since he began to play Kendama with his brother at the age of 7 and then he has been improving in Kendama school like sports.
He mixed his own unique and inventive tricks with Kendama.

Today, it's 3rd day of the event, the more he showed his excellent kendama skills, the audience had been very excited with a big applause.



(Eri)