In celebration of the “Japan-UK Season of Culture”, running from 2019 to 2020, the Japan Foundation is honoured to present a performance of Iwami Kagura (literally meaning ‘entertaining the gods’) at the London Japan Matsuri, a festival of Japanese culture. Iwami Kagura is a fast, exciting, colorful and dynamic local dance-theatre from the northwestern part of Shimane Prefecture in a locality between Shimane Prefecture and Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
This unforgettable kind of masked dance-theatre is unlike anything you have seen before.
Programme 2019:-
Naomi Suzuki and Opening Ceremony
Nippon Club Women’s Choir The Green Chorus
Iwami Kagura Performance by Otsu Kagura Troupe
Eisa Dance by the London Bunka Yochien
Hasike’s Uta
O-HA-YA-SHI Couple “Reiwa” Group
Yosakoi London – Temuzu
ICHI one man band
Let’s Dance Awa Odori
Kyoki Ranbu by the Brighton and Hove Japanese Club Dance Team
Fashion Collection by Kimono De Go
Children from Chelsea Kodomo no Hiroba
SOAS Min’yo Group
JSD Dance Crew
Soprano Hiroko Masaki
Okinawa Sanshinkai / Kenjinkai and Sonda Seinenkai Eisa Group
Michiyo Kagami - Daikagura
Shinozuka Zuiou, Kyō-mai dancer
Hibiki Ichikawa & Akari Mochizuki
Hiroko Tanaka Nihon Buyo Group
Otsu Karura Troupe final performance
Naomi Suzuki Rugby world Cup 2019
Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers