At the evenning the whole group went into the Tenbusu theatre on Kokusai dori street where the “Akemodoro Troup Tira-no-kai” performes every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Here is what we have found on the internet: (source:http://www.okinawa-karate.jp/espanol/n_library.html?check_title=16)

Tenbusu Theater “Karate & dance performances
Located in the center of Naha City’s Kokusai Street, the Naha City Tenbusu Hall offers daily performances of Okinawa’s performing arts. And for visitors to discover Okinawa’s karate and Kobodu, it stages every Tuesday the “Akemodoro Troup Tira-no-kai”.
Led by Hiroko Ogido sensei (Below in the center), the “Akemodoro Troup Tira-no-kai” is formed by 8 members all well versed in Ryukyuan dance and martial arts.
Ogido sensei started Ryukyuan dance when she was a child. Later she entered the famous Kodokan dojo of Matayoshi Shimpo sensei. One day, seeing Matayoshi sensei perform a sickle kata, she realized “THAT’S ART!”
“Sensei’s moves were filled with Muchimi* and so much taste” explains Ogido sensei. She later decided to blend Ryukyuan dances, karate and Kobudo in a fashionable way that could be performed on stage. That was the beginning of a new genre.
“For the general public to enjoy and realize the beauty of arts, you need cheerfulness more than a very high level of technique. However to do so, you need to keep training in each arts separately to bring out the specificity of each ones. That is where the challenge is!”
And saying so, Ogido sensei welcomes the troupe’s members for a session of pure Kobudo.

(*) Muchimi could be translate as a heavy sticky but flowing action like the one of a lash

At the Kodokan from Sensei Matayoshi

Here are some impressions from the performance sent to us by Yannick …

View into Tenbusu hall (consider the eku in the picture ;-))

pictures made during the performance

Stay tuned for todays report …