Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2011

The beauty of balance./Facundo Kramer

Have you already had a look at the great performance of Facund Kramer?
If you hadn't done it yet, you should watch it as soon as possible.
That is definitely one of the must-see performance.

"When I perfrom at the place I've never been, of course I'm nervous. But It's getting better and better.
What I'm worried about is the weather such as sunshine and temprature because I might have an accident by wetting my hands and falling from the pall."
His name is Facund Kramer, who are from Argentina. He is one of the world cup department artists and brother of Princess Elayne as well.
It is a big surprise that he is still 14 years old. His family is a circus family which has been passed down five different generations.

Despite his age, his performance is more than elegant and takes the audience's breath away.
The audience is overwhelmed by his amazing balance on a stand.
Not only the grace of his performance but also his well-trained body and handsome face attract a lot of people.(Just for the record, I'm not jealous of him.)
He said that he gets the idea of his performance and his father make it better. He is his father and his master as well.

"It's very clean in Japan and the reaction from the audience is great. It's actually better than I thought.
I'd like to do my best and I want to keep the level all the time."
I am for sure that he will do.
He is not the princess's brother any more but one of the world-class performer.

So...don't miss it!!

By the way, he is really good-looking, isn't he?

Juicy

The Fairy's back again! /Princess Elayne

A lot of her Fans came to see her, Princess Elyane.
She is only 18 years old, but her style as Pro capture the hearts of her audience.

She told us her next goal is 'Be more Famous.'
'And she wants to travel, meet a lot of people from all over the world,' she said.
She will achieve her goal, because her family supports her very much.
She told us thet all costume is handmade by her mother.
Also the start of her favirous famous performance, Archery, was the idea from her father.
The episode was that her father found one of a picture in the restaurant,
and he made suggestion to start the archery, because the picture was beautiful and intresting.

You can't miss this Archery performance if you came Daidogei!

(Su A)

USA Juggler or Musician? Oh, yeah, both!!/Dan Menendez

The world cup department champion 2001, Dan Menendez is back!!
He said that he is really glad to come back this festival again and make people happy.
All of a sudden, he starts checking his electoric piano by throwing juggling balls to the keyboard.
Although, at this point, he draw all the attention of the audience already, this is just the beginning of his unique show.

He has been performing as a professional performer more than 30 years.
The reason he wanted to be in this busking world is that he got inspired by his father who is very famous for coaching Muhammad Ali.
His father was also doing magic when Dan was young, which inspired Dan to be a performer.

"What do you think about the audience in Japan?"
"The audience is very different from what they used be. When I came to this festival last time, 10 years ago, people didn't show their
feeling like they do now. They just stared at me performing and they were very quiet even if they were laughing.
But they are more open-minded and laughing than before.
They express their feeling more, which is very good for performers. This is the biggest difference I've got."

The more he throws the balls, the more music plays beautiful melodies.
His action and rhythm is comical, funny and very comfortable so that we can watch it again and again.
Why? Who knows!?

The moment he finished his show, I couldn't believe that he had been performing it more than 20min.
Yes, I was totally in his world as if I was dreaming.
If you love music and juggling, this is the one you can't miss.
So let's play music with him!!

Juicy

The creator of laughter!/NINO COSTRINI

NINO is the champion of the world cup department in 2007. The feature is his very high tone voice.
He tricks some audiences and asks them to help him. That makes the performance so funny.
You can't guess what he's going to do in the next moment. He gets one's joke across to the audience for running high.
The audiences don't understand what he's saying, but it's interesting very much. Feeling over the festival run high.
You should come and see it!

(aya,bingo)

a Silvern man is here!/un-pa

Cheers rose up when I walked around the park.
"There is a silvern man!"
I turned around and found a man, there was exactly a slivern man!
He was walking when I found him, but he stopped his all motion in a sudden.
Surpeisingly he never moved an inch after that and he just looked like a statue.
He fit the scenery of a park so much,
even some people didn't aware he was not a statue but a statue performer.

Didn't he made any move in performing time? Nope, let's pay attention to him more.
He made a little move in a while to surprise audienece.

You can try to find him on the street or enjoy to find him in a chance.
Or you may have seen already but didn't find him!

(Enutaku)

Be frightened and Laugh! Acrobatic Zombies/D'HOLMIKERS

Awesome guys has come to Shizuoka for the first time!
Their name is D'HOLMIKERS.
They are a hot team over the world of acrobatics
as the pioneer who have opened up the new field, horror acrobatics.



"Some audience may be scared and burst into tears...", MC remarked first.
Then the performance got started as zombies appeared from throng in sudden.
They went wild and jumped around the stage.
The audience were frightened but laughed too!
Although the zombies looked like horrible, it was so funny
because their motion matched comical sounds nicely and it was so funny.
You can't miss this great performance that combined with acrobatics and humor.

D'HOLMIKERS came into being from a Mels gymnastic blub in a small town in Swizerland.
Some gymnasts there had the same desire to promote a fascinating kind of gymnastics to ordinary people,
and it became one of reasons that they found the team. 20 gymnasts blongs the team for now.
"11 years passed since we have performed horror acrobatics. We are keeping to develop our performance."
Roland, a member of D'HOLMIKERS, said with zombi's smile.



I can assure you that you will enjoy this horror acrobatics with laugh and fright.
Now you have to come and see it!

(Romi)