{"id":3647,"date":"2015-07-28T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T06:28:43","slug":"visit-to-bali-by-atsushi-sugano-ec-general-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-earth-celebration-committee\/20150728_3647.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Visit to Bali&#8221; by Atsushi Sugano, EC General Producer"},"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-earth-celebration-committee\/20150728_3647.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-earth-celebration-committee\/20150728_3647.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Visit to Bali&#8221; by Atsushi Sugano, EC General Producer\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Visit to Bali<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2514-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Atsushi Sugano\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Leonard Eto, Kinu Watanabe of the Japan Foundation, Makoto Shimazaki (Chairman of Kodo Cultural Foundation) and I visited Bali, Indonesia, in order to explore the possibilities\u00a0for our upcoming collaborative performances at EC (for the first time in 18 years) and also for future Kodo performances in Bali. For Leonard and myself, it was our first trip to Bali in 20 years, but the moment we felt the warm, humid air of the tropics, we were overcome by nostalgia and everything felt familiar again right away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2515-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Atsushi Sugano\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our reunion with Suwentra, the leader of Suar Agung, also felt so natural&#8230; it was as if no time had passed at all. We spoke fondly of our memories together, and continued our recent conversations about this year\u2019s performance at EC without reservation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6270035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P6270035-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Atsushi Sugano\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next day, we went to Nugara, the western region of Bali where their headquarters are located. There, Leonard led rehearsals with Suar Agung, keeping in mind the vision of Mitsuru Ishizuka who is\u00a0directing the performance \u201cShukusai\u201d on the final night of\u00a0EC. \u00a0It was indeed a fruitful visit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/ec\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hd_logo-680x65.png\" alt=\"hd_logo\" width=\"640\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/ec\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/ec\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit to Bali Leonard Eto, Kinu Watanabe of the Japan Foundation, Makoto Shimazaki (Chairman of Kodo Cultural Foundation) and I visited Bali, Indonesia, in order to explore the possibilities\u00a0for our upcoming collaborative performances at EC (for the first time in 18 years) and also for future Kodo performances in Bali. For Leonard and myself, it was our first trip to Bali in 20 years, but the moment we felt the warm, humid air of the tropics, we were overcome by nostalgia and everything felt familiar again right away. Our reunion with Suwentra, the leader of Suar Agung, also felt so natural&#8230; it was as if no time had passed at &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-earth-celebration-committee\/20150728_3647.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[193,88,168,169,194,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}