{"id":3736,"date":"2015-09-21T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2015-09-21T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:04:36","slug":"performance-at-russia-japan-cultural-festival-for-peace-and-friendship-by-takuro-susaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20150921_3736.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Performance at &#8216;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship'&#8221; by Takuro Susaki"},"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\/staff\/20150921_3736.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\/staff\/20150921_3736.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Performance at &#8216;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship'&#8221; by Takuro Susaki\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sep. 7, 2015<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Performance at &#8220;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On September 3, Kodo&#8217;s Eiichi Saito, Maya Minowa and Mizuki Yoneyama\u00a0performed at the &#8220;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship&#8221; in\u00a0Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC2428_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC2428_800px-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Hiroshi Abe\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This opportunity\u00a0came about thanks to an\u00a0invitation to perform from the artistic director of the Buryat National Academic House of Ballet,\u00a0Mr. Morihiro Iwata. Kodo appeared in\u00a0the first act of the concert in a work that he choreographed called &#8220;Tamashii (Spirit),&#8221;\u00a0which premiered in 2008 and was created to accompany Kodo recordings. This 2015 collaboration was the first time for the ballet to be danced to live Kodo music.<\/p>\n<p>The Buryat National Ballet and invited guests from Moscow&#8217;s Bolshoi Theater Ballet danced with such liveliness and portrayed an array of emotions on stage with such subtle details.\u00a0Their performance seemed to truly inspire and invigorate the Kodo members who shared the stage with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9786_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_9786_800px-340x227.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takuro Susaki\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During our short yet enriching stay, we also got taken to see\u00a0Ivolginsky Datsan Temple and Lake Baikal. We are already looking forward to the day when we can collaborate with Mr. Iwata again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kodo Collaboration with Morihiro Iwata at &#8220;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20150903peace&amp;friendship_en.html\">http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20150903peace&amp;friendship_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep. 7, 2015 Performance at &#8220;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship&#8221; &nbsp; On September 3, Kodo&#8217;s Eiichi Saito, Maya Minowa and Mizuki Yoneyama\u00a0performed at the &#8220;Russia-Japan Cultural Festival for Peace and Friendship&#8221; in\u00a0Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. This opportunity\u00a0came about thanks to an\u00a0invitation to perform from the artistic director of the Buryat National Academic House of Ballet,\u00a0Mr. Morihiro Iwata. Kodo appeared in\u00a0the first act of the concert in a work that he choreographed called &#8220;Tamashii (Spirit),&#8221;\u00a0which premiered in 2008 and was created to accompany Kodo recordings. This 2015 collaboration was the first time for the ballet to be danced to live Kodo music. The Buryat National Ballet and invited &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20150921_3736.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":[1],"tags":[206,120,71,208,205,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736"}],"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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}