Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2013

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.



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An Intense and Passionate Love Story/Heloise & William

Hanging high in the air, the two performers continuously repels and attracts
each other other on a Chinese pole.
The two perfomers, Heloise and William, portrays a relationship
of love with both intensity and passion.

At one moment, the two repels each other and pushes each other apart, and in another
moment, the two are both physically and mentally close.
As I saw the two race to the top of the 10 meter high Chinese pole and look straight down, it
sent an alarming message.
Just as I expected, the two darted straight down the Chinese pole in a motion of struggle!
At only a foot off the ground, William caught Heloise and stopped her from crashing into
the ground.

As I interviewed Heloise and William, they told me a relationship is
"rough at some moments." However, every relationship has its ups and downs, but we can all
come to find happiness and satisfaction in love.
I asked them if they connect certain memories in the past with their performance, and they
chuckled and told me "it changes every time."

The two have shown a love story that relates to all of us.
If you want to reminesce about the
past or have your heart pounding by the acrobatic performance and passion that Heloise and
William have for each other, join us in Daidogei World Cup!!



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A Sentimental Story of Life and love/ Barbara Murata

What is life? What is happiness?

If you have ever wondered about this reiterating question,
come and watch "A Romany girl and the Moon," performed by Barbara Murata.
Barbara Murata has come back to Daidogei World Cup to show another amazing
performance that symbolizes life and death.
Barbara Murata impersonates a life of a girl who falls in love,
bears a child, and symbolizes the cycle of life by using repetition.
She syncronizes music, dance, and pantomime to dramatically portray the life that we can all relate to.
The performer not only conveys that there is confusion and grief in life, but
also life is full of joy, happiness, and fulfillment.

What drives Barbara to perform for the audience?
Barbara told us that she wants to share her vision in life by
performing at Daidogei World Cup, and she hopes that her performance
will help the audience form their own interpretation of life and death,
and help guide the individual through their life.

If you ever want a time off from your busy life to think, come and watch
"A Romany girl and the Moon." Barbara Murata's beautiful and yet sentimental
performance may inspire you to think about where you stand in life and how you
want to shape it.





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