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DANCE 4

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 14, 2017
Discovering the 'it girl' of turn-of-the-century Paris in 'The Dancer'
Loie Fuller was the ultimate "it girl." A little-known dancer from Illinois, she wound up in turn-of-the-century Paris, smack-dab in the middle of La Belle Epoque. Her friends? They were artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and filmmakers the Lumiere Brothers, and her protegee was acclaimed dancer Isadora Duncan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 17, 2017
Dance troupe Condors summon teen spirit for new show '17's Map'
Sitting down with Condors frontman Ryohei Kondo, he says something a bit surprising: “’17’s Map’ is a work in progress.”
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2017
Rural Japan's folk traditions fading as residents age
Traditions die hard in the small mountain town of Kanegasaki, whose history includes a series of battles nearly 1,000 years ago that drove an ancestor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to leave the area for southern Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 6, 2016
Thank God it's Wednesday: Kom_I and her band are shaking up Japan's pop scene
Kom_I, the lead singer of electro-pop trio Suiyoubi no Campanella, could very well be the personification of the term "free spirit."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 30, 2016
Disabled artists from Osaka aim to bring wheelchair dancing to international stage
When Go Suzuki dances, he dances like no other, his wheelchair glides across the floor, his arms spread with dramatic flair as he spins in beautifully sequenced, perfectly timed choreography with his partner's steps.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Oct 16, 2016
Dancing from Dakar to Tokyo, my brother Baye
Abdou Baye Fall, who used to dance in exchange for fish in Dakar, now travels the length and breadth of Japan teaching children about the cultures of Senegal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 15, 2016
Sony buys British dance music label
Sony Corp. said it has acquired Britain's dance music label Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd. in a bid to enhance content for younger consumers in its music entertainment business.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 22, 2016
Seiho's rise out of the clubs results in 'Collapse'
Seiho Hayakawa knows how to work a room. After his show at Black Bear Bar in Brooklyn — a performance that saw him thrashing his long hair back and forth to electronic beats — the Osaka-born musician takes a walk through the crowd. He chats with the locals and poses for selfies. The overall verdict is that he's pretty charming.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 17, 2016
Rainbow Disco Club may be the dance music scene's pot of gold
With new venues such as Contact and Sankeys opening their doors in Tokyo this spring, there is hope for a resurgence in the underground electronic music circuit in 2016. But with a glut of EDM mega-bashes, the festival scene for mature dance music fans can sometimes look a bit bleak.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Feb 3, 2016
Japanese Odissi dancer masters Indian classical art form
Masako Ono's skills in this ancient style of dance have won her kudos and success in her adopted land of India.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 29, 2015
Shibutanis claim NHK Trophy ice dance title
Americans Maia and Alex Shibutani won the ice dance at the NHK Trophy on Sunday with a solid performance in the free dance at Big Hat.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 28, 2015
Shoko reclaims her spot on the stage
Shoko Nakamura embarked on a challenging journey when she began retraining for ballet performances just one month after giving birth to her son, Joel, in 2011. The dancer, who goes by just her first name when performing, says the physical pain involved in getting back into shape often reduced her to tears.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 9, 2015
Dancing on the waves at Miyajima
"The mystery of the Orient is legendary . . . it was in the air the moment we stepped ashore in Kyoto, and now in Tokyo it began to envelop us." That's how Charlie Chaplin described his arrival in Japan. I'm not sure if the "Little Tramp" ever visited the island of Miyajima on any of his four trips to Japan, but if so, I'm sure the sense of mystery would have positively engulfed him there, too.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 26, 2015
Twenty years of 'Riverdance' and it's never been out of step
"Riverdance" is returning to Japan. Twenty years on from its debut as an interval in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, the Irish step-dancing show that revamped and massively expanded the genre's global appeal is returning to Japan for its sixth tour.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 15, 2015
Nine couples set marathon dance record of 35:01:01
Nine couples have broken the world record for the longest dance marathon in the seaside town of Pattaya, southeast of Thailand's capital, Bangkok.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 12, 2015
Belle and Sebastian lean toward politics and away from twee on newest album
Belle and Sebastian are headed back to Japan, but are not quite as you remember them. For nearly 20 years the Glasgow indie darlings have been pigeonholed as producers of twee, lovelorn songs for corduroy-clad outcasts, but with their newly released ninth album, that stereotype is in danger of looking outdated: "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance" is as concerned with the dance floor as it is the state of the world in which it was conceived.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2015
Japanese ballet dancers win third, fifth places in Lausanne competition
Lausanne Switzerland
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 14, 2015
Ichiyanagi opera aims to be 'total work of art'
As part of its 40th-anniversary celebrations, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall in Yokohama will stage a world-premier version of "Legend of the Water Flame," an opera by the renowned composer Toshi Ichiyanagi that's scored around a libretto by a fellow octogenarian, the poet Makoto Ooka.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 24, 2014
Sendai native dances his way to Flo-Bert Award
Kazunori Kumagai, 37, is the first Japanese to win the Flo-Bert prize, a prestigious award that honors tap dancers for outstanding achievements.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2014
High school dancer puts a skip in Toyama's step
A high school girl whose dance videos have found an avid following on the Internet is bringing some cool cred to her hometown, the economically depressed but perky city of Toyama.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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