琉球舞踊
第一部 19:00〜19:30 (5曲)
第二部 20:00〜20:30 (5曲)
※第一部と第二部の内容は異なります。 ※演目は毎日変わります。
第二部終了後、お客様のカメラにて舞台の上で踊り子との写真撮影ができます。
KAGIYADE FUThis dance is a happy dance. It is the first dance get a concert or celebration. (Priest/Priestess Costumes) This auspicious dance is customarily performed at the beginning of the programs at festivals. The elderly people’s dances (Rojin Odori) theme is the celebration of longevity and a plentiful progeny. It was frequently performed before the king in the age of the Ryukyuan Kingdom. Kagiyade Fu in its standard version is performed by an elderly man or coupie, although it is sometimes performed in contexts by young people.
NUBUI KUDUCHI
This is one of the youth dances. During the Kingdom era, traveling toward Satsuma(Kagoshima) or the Edo(Tokyo) capital of Japan. The dance shows the strong spirit of young men.
TANCHAME
As presentations of life in the Tancha hamlet of Onna Village, the performance involving young couples constitutes a wonderful Zo or popular dance performance. The man carry oars, while the woman hold a basket of woven straw (baaki) to carry the catch and sell that it entails.
HATOMA BUSHI
This dance was created in Hatoma island, Yaeyama and it was rearranged to a faster tempo by an Okinawan actor/dancer “Mr. Ihara”. This dance is a creative dance
that celebrates a year of fruitfulness and abundant crops.
KANAYOAMAKAWA
This is a duet dance depicting a young island boy and girl who put their hearts into their dancing to express their love. Today, this dance has many fans.
YOTSUDAKE
Meaning “four bamboos”. Which are the castanets that the dancers hold to click in time to the music. The castanets original function was to be used for ritual purification of an area where celebration was being held. Most commonly performed classical dance. The worn is called Hanagasa which means flower hat. Blue waves and bingata colors represent the Okinawan female spirit manifested in romantic love.
NUCHIBANA
The dancers perform this with garland made from red and white flowers. The woman dancers pick up cherries from the Shirashihai river. They make a lei to give to their love ones.
HANJO BUSHI
This dance expresses joy of a good harvest crops.
HANA FU
This dance is about a beautiful girl seeing her lover off at Naha Meigusuku Port. This is supposed to be a fairly sad dance.
TAIRYOUBUSHI
This dance expresses the joy of the big catch.
UMI NO CHINBORA
This dance is a funny dance. “Chinbora” is a kind of shellfishes, it has a bad form. There was a plain looking girl like Chinbora. The dance compare the girl and a shellfish.
SHISHIMAI
Brave Lion dance is to beat evil vibe and bring happiness.
AI-AI-GASA (Sharing umbrella)
Sharing umbrella is symbol of love each other in Japan. This is dance of love.
KASANO HATOMA BUSHI
This dance was created in Hatoma island, Yaeyama and it was rearranged to a faster tempo by an Okinawan actor/dancer “Mr. Ihara”. This dance is a creative dance that celebrates a year of fruitfulness and abundant crops.
NAKAZATOBUSHI
I will express the love of men and women of mutual affection.
KURUSHIMA KUDUCHI
Dancers are celebrating the island of Kurushima in Yaeyama.
(An island below Okinawa) It describes the festivals held on the island and reminds that although Kurushima is no larger than a drop of rain, the island is blessed by nature and enjoys a plentiful crop every year.
ME NU HAMA
This is one of the youth dances. The dance shows the strong spirit of young men.
CHODEGWA
“Ichariba chode” means “Once we meet and talk even by chance,
we are brothers and sisters”. This dance incorporated elements of and karate.
TAIKO BAYASHI (Modern)
A lively dance performed by four women two with drums and two with sticks.
SHO-CHIKU-BAI(Pine tree, bamboo and plum)
Pine tree is evergreen, represent long life and celebration. Bamboo represent honest and genuine, Plum is gorgeousness. This is the dance to cerebral new year.
HIGASA
Higasa is a parasol. This dance shows a girl goes to see a beloved person joyfully.
NANYOU HAMACHIDORI
A man was on the southern ocean far away from his home and made this song to think about his home town.
SYUKUGA NO MAI
This is a dance of celebration.
HAMACHIDORI
Watched over plovers from the window of Inn on his journey. He’s missing his girlfriend who left behind his hometown by beautiful birds and it’s singing.
