“My First Overseas Tour, ‘DADAN'” by Kengo Watanabe

July 24, 2014

This “DADAN” tour is my first time giving performances abroad. Leading up to the opening night, I was especially nervous to see how the people in Spain would react to our performance, but they got very excited, much more than I had expected! So after the performance I was on such a high, which didn’t go away even after I got back to my hotel room.

We receive such great applause every time we perform, but I am not going to let myself be satisfied by that considering my own power right now. What I will do is think more and more about performing and by the time we get back to Japan, I hope that my senior Kodo members will think that I have grown. Then, I want to show people in Japan how I am developing as a performer, too.

I am still an inexperienced junior member, so I will keep trying hard to catch up to the senior Kodo members!

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My first performance abroad at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Spain