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Bon Odori - The Japanese Summer Dance!
Bon Odori, simply meaning Bon dance, is a style
of dance performed during the Obon festival in Japan, which is
held in the month of August. Obon is a three day
Buddhist-Confucian festival to honour the departed spirits of one’s ancestors, and
has been celebrated for more than 500 years.It is performed during the
heat of summer, so the performers wear light cotton kimonos called ‘Yukata’.
Originally a dance to welcome the
spirits of the dead, the style of celebration varies in many aspects from
region to region. Each region has a local dance, as well as different music. The music can be songs
specifically pertinent to the spiritual message of Obon, or local folk
songs. Consequently, the Bon dance will look and sound different from
region to region.
Kiyomi Prasanna Tanaka a
Japanese lecturer at the Soka Ikeda College of Arts & Science for Women,
Chennai, who has made Chennai her home, will talk on ‘Fukuchiyama
Ondo’, a Bon Odori that is performed in her native region of North
Kyoto. The performance will be brought to you by her students. The
steps are simple and repetitive and we would love our members to
join in and enjoy the dance too.
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