Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2013

Ballet on the head!!/BALLET ON THE SHOULDER

Changwei, Yu, and Lin come from China has brought a great performance to us in Shizuoka.

At the beggining of the show,Yu and Lin, two slender ladies play diabolos both rhythmically and gracefully.
Their performance is so synchronized thatyou might feel as if you were watching synchronized swimming.
Their movement is so flexible that you will forget how difficult and complex what they are doing.
They gradually draw the audience into their show.

After the diabolo show,Changwei,the male dancer starts to join the show.
He lifts up the ladies high up on his shoulders by turns.
One of the ladies stands on her hands holding his hands tightly, moving her legs in a graceful fashion.
Next,she stands on tiptoe, spins and then stands on one foot while holding her other leg.
She does everything on the man's shoulders.It must be a really hard work but he seems to do every movement without panting.

At the end of the show, he holds one of the ladies not on his shoulders, but on his head.
Their show ends with a powerful climax where she stands one foot on his head and he lets his hands off from her foot.

(Uluru and Run's mommy)