Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2011

You must see this transform from a toy into art!/Yusuke Ito

Yusuke Ito is the first professional performer of kendama in the world.
We've never seen kendama performance, so we wasn't able to imagine a performance with kendama.
However, his performance totally changed our conception.
He appered on the stage wearing Happi and Tabi with music of Shamisen.
Then he showed us rythmical and dynamic art with sounds of "kan-kon kan-kon".
The audience was fascinated by his kendama world.
In last, he performed the big art "kendama without a string".
The kendama just looked like a living thing!
"What is the attraction of kendama?", we asked.
His answer was thus;
"Anybody can enjoy to play kendama if he or she want to. The simplicity attracts me."
He've opened up a new way in kendama world.
He will continue to give us much more impression.

(Gatsu & Kanakoro & Su A & Romi)