My first dancing festival was amazing! The base bussed us to and from the station where the festival was occurring, making it so easy. The event ran from 5pm til 8:30! We danced for one hour straight, in the HOT sun before it went down. These Yukata outfits are heavy and not breathable! I was prepared to sweat!! And we did!!
The base offers this opportunity and they train us for 6 weeks (90min lessons once a week) to prepare and learn the dances.
At today's festival we performed two dances.
All dressed in my Yukata. They arrange someone to dress you in this! It's like a Japanese corset. Very fitted and tight!
The red part is called an OBI. It is a banded belt of sorts and you see them everywhere here. Then there is the bow that slips in the back, and the fan!
All the ladies who danced today
Dancing at the festival! We dance in three lines, three across! Spacing is important!
It was 3-1/2 hours of constant rotating dancers. So we danced for one hour, ate for an hour and then had an hour to enjoy the performers and people watch.
Lots of young kids dancing in the mix
All the performers are very energetic and animated!!
Lanterns at the festival entrance
We stopped at a Chinese restaurant and it was amazing. No English menu, but I took a chance and loved this dish. Pork and veggies with squid and some very different mushroom variety.
Ended my night pounding one of these.
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