Participation in Powell Festival 2023 and other events
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Michiyo Kagami
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5(2023) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
The "neighborhood tour," in which the lion dance purifies houses one by one, which is considered to be the center of the daikagura performance, is reproduced at the "Powell Festival," a festival for Japanese Americans held every year in Vancouver. Based on the festival's aim of creating new value by adding Canadian culture to the base of Japanese culture, the festival collaborated with Toronto-based music group Ten Ten and consisted of lion dance by Ten Ten and acrobatics by Miyo Kagami. In addition to the performances on stage, a lecture on the history of Daikagura was given, and members of the public were also accompanied to visit the stalls participating in the festival and purify them with lion dances and acrobatics. They also performed daikagura acrobatics on stage at the festival and in the nearby city of Victoria. Powell Festival Performers: Miyo Kagami, ten ten Local staff: Emiko Morita, Miki Konishi Victoria Performance Performers: Miyo Kagami, Rina Ernahas (Tohoku folk song) Local staff: Yukari Pearles
- Period of Activity / Project
- Thursday, August 3, 2023 -8 (Tue)
- Venues
- ・Canadian College of Performing Arts Performance Hall
(Victoria, Canada)
・ Powell's Diamond Stage
(Vancouver, Canada)
・ Firehall Arts Centre
(Vancouver, Canada)
・ Vancouver Japanese Language School, Japanese Community Hall
(Vancouver, Canada)
Profile
[Kagami Michiyo]
Daikagura acrobat. With the motto "Bring auspicious to the world," they are exploring the possibilities of daikagura by performing overseas, performing daikagura in English, holding lectures and various workshops, and planning stages, making use of their language skills, which are rare in yose.
Graduated from International Christian University. After working for a public relations agency, he became a trainee of the fifth Daikagura at the National Theater. After 1 year of zenza training at yose (vaudeville theater), he performed his first koza (stage performance) at Asakusa Engei Hall in April 2011.