GERMANY: THE ANNUAL FRANKFURT MUSEUMSUFERFEST GIVES THE GERMAN PEOPLE A GLIMPSE OF JAPANESE CULTURE

Record ID: 390252

  • Title: GERMANY: THE ANNUAL FRANKFURT MUSEUMSUFERFEST GIVES THE GERMAN PEOPLE A GLIMPSE OF JAPANESE CULTURE
  • Date: 11th October 2000
  • Summary: MCU (German) Tadashi Endo saying."That is really a typical Butoh dance, but meanwhile, the dance has become known around the world, so many Europeans and Americans now dance it themselves".
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2000 13:00
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  • Location: FRANKFURT, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6PIYEXW2YTTEVV3ZENXGKSE5W
  • Story Text: The annual Frankfurt Museumsuferfest is a major date on the cities cultural calendar and allows people not only free access to the cities museums, but also provides a host of attractions lining the banks of the 'Main river', which runs through the city. This year the event, which attracts millions of visitors, took Japan as its theme and has given the German people a glimpse of Japanese culture both past and present.
    Everything in fact from Japan's most famous singer Ryoko Moriyama through to Japanese drummers, and traditional Butoh dance.
    As perhaps the most celebrated performer at this year's Museumsuferfest the singer Ryoko Moriyama is also arguably Japans most famous singer.
    In a career spanning over thirty years, she has recorded sixty four albums and released fifty one singles, as well as entertaining an estimated 3.4 million fans at over 2000 concerts world-wide, including her thirtieth stage anniversary at the Carnegie hall in New York, with singer Michel Legrand.
    In 1998 she was asked to sing the opening song at the start of the Olympic games in Nagano.
    Tadashi Endo is a Japanese Butoh dancer who has lived in Germany for over thirty years.
    In collaboration with the Jazz musician Itaru Oki, Endo brings his own experience to the ancient Japanese dance form 'Butoh'.
    A dance form originally evolved from the rice growers of Japan, Butoh incorporates the standard themes of birth, love, and death, but incorporates the immediate and personal feelings of the dancer.
    Tentekko are a German/Japanese group that play drums in the original Japanese style, as well as incorporating dance and music in their act.
    The group plays original pieces that according to the ancient Shinto religion were intended to summon the gods!
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