canadiannikkei.ca » Kokoro Dance http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:47:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 “Ghosts” Photos http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/arts-culture/ghosts-photos/ http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/arts-culture/ghosts-photos/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:35:33 +0000 admin http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/?p=462

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Ugly, transfixing, transformative . . . beautiful

]]> http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/arts-culture/ghosts-photos/feed/ 0 Redress Anniversary Celebration http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/arts-culture/redress-anniversary-celebration/ http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/arts-culture/redress-anniversary-celebration/#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:40:03 +0000 admin http://www.canadiannikkei.ca/blog/?p=430 This weekend is the 20th Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Redress agreement. A three day event is being held at the Vancouver Japanese language School & Japanese Hall (today) and at Nikkei Place (tomorrow and Sunday). I wasn’t able to make it down today, but managed to catch Kokoro Dance’s performance of Ghosts on [...]]]> This weekend is the 20th Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Redress agreement. A three day event is being held at the Vancouver Japanese language School & Japanese Hall (today) and at Nikkei Place (tomorrow and Sunday). I wasn’t able to make it down today, but managed to catch Kokoro Dance’s performance of Ghosts on the roof of the Sunrise Market on Powell Street. What a powerful piece of dance. A dozen dancers, three bagpipe players and a drummer (refreshingly, not taiko). Everything came together to make this a strange, evocative, lovely piece of theatre. The setting, the audience, the smells. I was entranced . . .

More of my photos of Ghosts can be seen at my Flickr site.

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