Vladivostok for the fourth time passed kimono show — a holiday Japanese and Russian cultures, which became a tradition for many and loved. This time for the show organizers, including Consulate General of Japan in Vladivostok, Japan Center and the Japanese Society of Vladivostok, chose the second floor lobby of the Pushkin Theater. In the past, a kimono show was held at the Museum «Artetage», which is now closed. Putting together all the hard viewers who want to see the beautiful kimono and show participants. The main theme of the presentation was happiness, информирует «Тихоокеанская Россия».
«The world has become so much conflict, tension, so many reasons for anxiety and sorrow, — says the director Juri show Arakawa — that we decided to remind the audience of happiness, that it is a diverse and close that only need to look back, to stop, that happiness was there…»
In addition, the organizers of the show was dedicated to the current literature in Russia, anticipating the coming out party reading passages from the works of famous Russian and Japanese writers and poets — Esenin, Nabokov, Murakami. Read excerpts theater actors.
«Culture — that is what unites us and the Japanese in the first place — says an employee of the Japan Center Olga Sumarokova. — This is the most direct and intimate way from heart to heart, soul to soul. Our goal — to find in our cultures common emotional message, we are glad that we perform kimono show in the hall of the Pushkin Theater, under the portrait of Pushkin».
As always, in a kimono show was attended by Japanese living in Vladivostok — businessmen and their wives, consular employees and students. Each have a private kimono, specially brought for the occasion from Japan (which is why the show begins training for six months).
Kimono show director Juri Arakawa and art director Hiromi Yamaguchi divided into two parts: the Japanese and Russian. The output of each participant was accompanied by a specially selected piece of music.
Thus, in the Japanese part of the tune from the movie «Memoirs of a Geisha», computer game «Taiko Master» as well as songs of Japanese artists were shown these types of «pure Japanese happiness» as peace of mind, professional development, harmony and self-sacrifice.
In the second part of the Japanese participants tried to convey Russian happiness: the conquest of space, the love of mother nature, the comfort of home, collective work, love, passion… music background served song from the movie «Brother II», the ballet «The Nutcracker» cartoon «Umka «works by Georgy Sviridov and Rimsky-Korsakov, the song Lydia Ruslanova.
Noted the audience and the performance during the intermission of the «Nishikawa Bushido», whose leader — Shigeru Nishikawa — teaches young Primorye martial art of Japanese sword.
Organizers said that perhaps this kimono show will be the last. Art Project Director Hiromi Yamaguchi, whose life is inextricably linked with the culture of a kimono and without which it is impossible to imagine a project that leaves Vladivostok.
Source — VL.ru