{"id":1250,"date":"2014-07-08T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2014-07-08T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:46:07","slug":"akita-performance-by-akiko-ando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140708_1250.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Akita Performance&#8221; by Akiko Ando"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140708_1250.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140708_1250.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Akita Performance&#8221; by Akiko Ando\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">July 4, 2014<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Akita Performance<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mystery_Chigasaki_1405ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mystery_Chigasaki_1405ss-340x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a freshman\u00a0in high school, seven years ago, I saw Kodo perform for the first time and it made me\u00a0decide what I wanted to do in the future. I&#8217;m from Akita Prefecture, and while our performance this weekend isn&#8217;t\u00a0in my hometown, I am\u00a0still really looking forward\u00a0to finally having the chance to perform with Kodo in my home area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2196 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mystery_Chigasaki_1242ss-340x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"238\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;Mystery&#8221; programme, I was given\u00a0a\u00a0role\u00a0that I feel\u00a0allows me to\u00a0show my own character well. It is important to feel the air and the darkness created\u00a0each and every time\u00a0we perform. I also\u00a0feel the regional differences in the audience&#8217;s response to our performances, so I&#8217;m really excited to see what kind of reaction the people in Akita will have to &#8220;Mystery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0bd2694c20274b93531de609b7b24f48.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0bd2694c20274b93531de609b7b24f48-340x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"238\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/akikoando_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2199 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/akikoando_s.jpg\" alt=\"akikoando_s\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Photos: Takashi Okamoto<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20140510oet_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1196 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/news20140510oet-340x377.jpg\" alt=\"news20140510oet\" width=\"122\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20140510oet_en.html\">&#8220;Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Mystery&#8221; Japan Tour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 4, 2014 Akita Performance When I was a freshman\u00a0in high school, seven years ago, I saw Kodo perform for the first time and it made me\u00a0decide what I wanted to do in the future. I&#8217;m from Akita Prefecture, and while our performance this weekend isn&#8217;t\u00a0in my hometown, I am\u00a0still really looking forward\u00a0to finally having the chance to perform with Kodo in my home area. &nbsp; &nbsp; In the &#8220;Mystery&#8221; programme, I was given\u00a0a\u00a0role\u00a0that I feel\u00a0allows me to\u00a0show my own character well. It is important to feel the air and the darkness created\u00a0each and every time\u00a0we perform. I also\u00a0feel the regional differences in the audience&#8217;s response to our performances, so &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140708_1250.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}