Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2013

Angels are busy to keep fantastic space for you.

During this DAIDOGEI festival, this space is really clean
even though 1.5 million audiences are coming and also enjoy world food.
We enjoy both street performance & world dishes.
Some people noticed that many clean stuffs support to keep clean & fantastic space here.
They wear angels wings on the back. It looks so cute & warm, isn't it?

Please appreaciate to them, and if you see clean stuff as angels,
say "Thanks", so they feel warmness, too.

Shizuoka's warm heart grow this big fes up!

Do you know shizuoka's nickname in local word?
It's called "SHIZOOKA". Cute sound, isn't it?
Actually, this DAIDOGEI festival have been held 22 times here.
Let see... What is this festival supported by,You know?
No one can ever expect that this festival is managed by only volunteers.
Actually, 1000 peoples as volunteers are in.
These volunteers are from not only Shizuoka's people, but also any other prefectures.
Almost volunteers are from Shizuoka, including me.
We, SHIZOOKA peoples truely love this place so much as making such a big festival
by just local volunteers!!
If you wanna feel this warmful circle, please join with us!!
It's gonna be a big power.

A Show that All family members can Enjoy!/ MUTE

With use of music that syncronizes with pantomime, MUTE will vividly
show you ordinary scenes in life that you can relate to.
Dressing as a baby, a puppet, a TV producer, and two lovers in consecutive order,
MUTE impersonates many precious moments of life.

With a great smile, playfulness, and humor, the two will make anyone from
a child to an eldery giggle in laughter.
I asked them what their objective of the show was, and they gave me a great
smile and told me that they wanted the audience to "smile and be happy."

Come and watch MUTE with their heartwarming story!



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Fantastic magic show!/KAMIMARO

Wearing a red-colored costume, Kamimaro performs a magic show with exotic background music.
The audience cannot take their eyes off his show from beginning to the end.
His show-name, "Kamimaro," is named by his friend after he performed at a ninjya mansion located in Akasaka.
"KAMI"is his family name, and "MARO" was given to him by his friend as a stage name.
Nowadays, he has a chance to go to foreign countries to perform his fantasy-like magic show
along with the shows he does in Japan. The audience are immersed into his magic and tries hard to unravel his tricks,trying hard not to blink and miss any details.
Kamimaro has a wide range of tricks, in which daytime show and nighttime show are totally different.
Don't miss the exciting opportunity to see Kamimaro's magic!

From Yuki

Thrilling and humorous Stunt/Bello Nock

The "America's best clown" has come back to Shizuoka for the second time
with another amazing performance!
With passion, humor, and athleticism, Bello Nock has brought his invention,
"double wheel on steel" to blow us away with another comical and exciting show.

The clown starts by running inside a circular wheel high in the air,
making the audience gasp as the wheel spins in circular motion.
Then, just when the audience restores calmness after the wheel stops,
the clown steps outside the wheel without any lifeline, and takes away
the breathe of the audience for another exciting stunt.

I asked the clown why he has choosen this act, and his response was that
"Japanese audience are passionate about what they see, and that we chose
an act that was dangerous, difficult, exciting, daring, and yet comical."

"We perform to see the audience smile, nothing is more rewarding than that,"
saids Bello Nock with passion and sincerity.
Come and see Bello Nock, you will surely be screaming in thrill and laughter.



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The stage of great laughter with the audience/Mika Kanou

The audience had already been waiting for Mika Kanou.
Shortly, "The Kanou World" made an entrance to the first stage of DAIDOUGEI World Cup in Shizuoka.

A waist pouch, a recorder, and a piece of paper with the words "A boy friend needed!" ...
she uses simple tools, but she develops extremely surrealistic world with them.
Once you are indulged into her show, you will not be able to stop laughing!

Be careful! When she gazes in your eyes, that means you're already a prey to her stage as a special guest!
She may make you clean the stage floor or make you do mysterious dance with her.
Anyway, she'll never let you go until the end of the show....!

Yes, her stage never completes without the audience.
A shy lady who's got spectacular body language taught us this through her show.



Torii