Nihon Buyo Kai, a nonprofit Japanese classical dance presenter, will host a virtual fundraiser by releasing videos of dances performed at the Fall 2023 Presentation in North High School, Torrance. The dances will be presented in two parts: Part 1 (November 16-30), featuring the dances Nagare, performed by dancers from Azuma Ryu), Kurokami and Katsuo […]
Tickets are $20 per person. Children 10 and under are free Registration (Limited seating) Umekawa Ichinosuke is a Japanese classical dancer with a unique background in ballet, kabuki, and Japanese classical dance. Umekawa performed at the Storrier Stearns garden in 2018 and has been invited back to Los Angeles by the Japanese Consul General. On […]
The Azuma Kotobuki Kai, Azuma Ryū Japanese dance group in Southern California, is celebrating its 25th year in Ventura County with a special recital. Despite a global pandemic and cross-country moves for Mam. Azuma Kikusue, the group continues to thrive. The Kotobuki Kai will have 57 dancers, ages 4 to adult, in traditional costumes, performing […]
Contents of Weekly Cultural News, June 10-16, 2024 (Reiwa 6) P01: Japanese dance group Azuma Kotobuki Kai in Ventura to hold 25th anniversary recital on Sunday, June 23 at 2:30PM P02: Omotesenka Tea School to hold Southern California Branch’s 50th Anniversary featuring Grand Master lecture at UC Irvine on Sunday, June 23 from 10:30AM P03: […]
Through Nihon Buyo, Bandō Hidesomi aims to foster unity and harmony among cultures, spreading happiness and peace to all. + Bando Hidesomi presents Benkyokai, Student Recital Saturday, April 27, 2024 2 – 5 pm JACCC George J. Doizaki Gallery Bando Hidesomi and her students, aged 3 to 80, will perform their first Benkyokai, a student […]
On Sunday, April 21, the Lynch Dance Institute, a ballet school in Poway near San Diego held the Third Annual Every Body Dances at the Joan B Kroc Theatre at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in San Diego. The mission of Every Body Dances is to bring together San Diego’s youth and adult performers from […]
The Fine Art Museum of San Francisco presents lecture and performance “A Talk on How Kabuki Influenced Popular Culture” by Kirk Kanesaka at Legion of Honor–Gunn Theater, 100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121 on Saturday, April 6 at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. Kirk Kanesaka, also known as Nakamura Gankyō in Kabuki stage name, […]
Madam Kao Khogetsu in Temecula area of Riverside County was granted her Natori, stage name and teaching credential, by Japanese dance school Khogetsu-ryu last year. The Khogetsu-ryu was founded in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture in April 1966 by Jusen Kohgetsu and is currently known as the creative Japanese dance based on Hanayagi-ryu. 58 years after the […]
“An Afternoon of Japanese Dance,” a program of Nihon buyo, or Japanese classical dance, was enjoyed by many Japanese dance enthusiasts on November 4th, 2023, at North High School Performing Arts Center in Torrance. This was the first in-person event presented by the nonprofit 501(c)(3) sponsor, Nihon Buyo Kai of California (NBK) since its last […]