Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2013

Laughter! after "Oops!" /Yamamoto Kouyou

Can't decide what to watch?
Well, here is a suggestion; Yamamoto Kouyou, a japanese pantomime artist.

Needless to say, a pantomime artist speaks no word during a show.
However, his show tends to deviate from this rule sometimes.
He sometimes uses words deliberlately as a spice of his performance.

From the begining of the show, there was a huge storm of laughter.
With squeaky voice, he suddenly impersonate a fly, stacked lady, and a chicken.

Of course, his marionette performance as "Charly Ymamoto" had already taken root here in Shizuoka.
As a result, he knows how to please the audience, and so does the audience in return.




"Different from a theater stage, an open-air show must be much more atractive.
Because the audience are more likely to lose concentration compared to a theater.
So I have to be really reasonable to the occasion." said Yamamoto.

By the way, he is the person who taught pantomime to Kanou Mami, a female pantomime artist.
He said that as we've known each other more than 10 years and she knows how I perform, Kanou is very reliable.

Happenings and uncertainty of audiences' responses are accompaniment of DAIDOUGEI World Cup,
but Yamamoto's skill and his flexibility are undeniable.

So I would say, "Never go home before you watch his solid skill pantomime show!"

(Torii)
photo by N.saito