The red guys are coming back to the outdoor kakuuchi for the first time in two years!
It’s that time of year again! For the first time in two years, “Yūgure Dance” will be set in Riverwalk Kitakyushu as a one-day outdoor kakuuchi event. When the music starts playing, Shigemi Kitamura a.k.a. Shigeyan, the Naniwan choreographer, and the dancers in red-shirts will interrupt you with their energetic dancing. If you happen to be there by chance, let the “hot dancing” and the performers in the red-shirts excite you in a sizzling evening at Kokura! Passion!
Dancers
Shigemi Kitamura (dancer and choreographer) & the Red-shirt Dancers
Artist Profile
Shigemi Kitamura
Dancer and choreographer. Her nickname is Shigeyan, the Naniwan choreographer. Kitamura began studying ballet at the age of six and studied at the Laban Centre in the United Kingdom. She works domestically and internationally as a solo dancer with the motto, "Bold dances that glorify the joy and pain of living." She strives to dance at anytime, anywhere, with anyone and has created several large-scale community dances with the locals not only at the elementary, middle, and high schools, but also at special education schools and welfare institutions, bars, the living room in private houses, trains, and shopping malls. She has choreographed for theatrical and dance companies, and also collaborates actively with musicians and visual artists. Kitamura received the Osaka Performing Arts New Face Award in 2002, and the Shiga Prefecture Culture Encouragement Prize in 2003. She is a registered artist with the Public Hall Dance Activation Program organized by the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities.
Event
Yūgure Dance-related event: “Excuse me at Showakan Theater”
Let a guerrilla performance by the Red-shirt Dancers entertain you after the movie!
[Dancers] IMA☆TAKA & the Red-shirt Dancers
[Date] Sunday, September 9th, 16:15-
[Venue] Kokura Showakan Theater #1 (4-2-9 Uomachi, Kokurakita-ku)
[Price] 1,100 yen (includes two film screenings) *Only available at the door of the Kokura Showakan Theater on the day of the event.
*For more details on “Fascinated by Dance at Showakan Theater,” see the program here.
Choreography movie of “Kokurabana”
Movie from “Yūgure Dance” in 2017
Contact
Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, Stage Production Section
Tel 093-562-2620 (10：00-19：00)
Information
Organized by Kitakyushu City Foundation for Promoting Arts and Culture
Co-organized by Kitakyushu City
Funded by Agency for Cultural Affair Subsidy to Promote Art and Culture (Gekijyo Ongakudo nado Kinou Kyoka Suishin Jigyo), and Japan Arts Council
Supported by Riverwalk Kitakyushu, and engel
Collaborated with Dance New Air 2018
Produced by Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center
