{"id":1408,"date":"2014-07-31T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T05:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2014-07-31T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T05:51:50","slug":"my-first-overseas-tour-dadan-by-kengo-watanabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140731_1408.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My First Overseas Tour, &#8216;DADAN'&#8221; by Kengo Watanabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140731_1408.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=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140731_1408.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;My First Overseas Tour, &#8216;DADAN'&#8221; by Kengo Watanabe\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">July 24, 2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/R0012191.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2390 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/R0012191-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenta Nakagome\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;DADAN&#8221; tour is\u00a0my first time giving performances abroad. Leading up to\u00a0the opening night, I was especially nervous to\u00a0see how the people in Spain would react to our performance, but they got\u00a0very excited, much more than I had expected! So after the performance I was on such a high, which didn&#8217;t go away even after I got\u00a0back to my hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0senior Kodo members\u00a0will think that I have grown. Then, I want to show people in\u00a0Japan how I am developing as a performer, too.<\/p>\n<p>I am still an inexperienced junior member, so I will keep\u00a0trying hard\u00a0to catch up to the senior Kodo members!<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 1px;\" width=\"1\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2487 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image2-680x353.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Kengo Watanabe\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">My\u00a0first performance abroad at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Spain<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/kengowatanabe_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kengowatanabe.jpg\" alt=\"kengowatanabe\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 2014 This &#8220;DADAN&#8221; tour is\u00a0my first time giving performances abroad. Leading up to\u00a0the opening night, I was especially nervous to\u00a0see how the people in Spain would react to our performance, but they got\u00a0very excited, much more than I had expected! So after the performance I was on such a high, which didn&#8217;t go away even after I got\u00a0back 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 &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140731_1408.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":[26,17,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}