{"id":443,"date":"2012-01-06T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=443"},"modified":"2012-01-06T06:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T06:07:20","slug":"unforgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Unforgettable"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most surprising things I’ve enjoyed in Tokyo is Flamenco<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The scene here is small but dedicated: I first came across it in a bar in Golden Gai, Shinjuku<\/strong><\/a> then last week I saw the performance in these pics, which was every bit as passionate<\/strong> and spectacular<\/strong> as anything I’ve seen or heard in Spain.<\/p>\n

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It was part of an amazing evening of music and dance taking place on two floors of an art gallery in Shibuya, organized by Megalo Theatre<\/strong><\/a>. As well as the flamenco there was traditional (and some decidedly non-traditional-!) Japanese music played on shamisen<\/strong><\/a> and tsuzumi<\/strong><\/a>, a ritual swordfight accompanied by a biwa<\/strong><\/a>-playing storyteller, and all kinds of other good stuff. The climax of the evening was a Mizu-Nagashi<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a New Year ceremony for which everyone anonymously wrote down a mistake they’d made during the past year, or something else they wanted to forget. <\/strong>The pieces of paper with the mistakes on were read out before being smacked with sticks <\/strong>and then consigned to water<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My mistake was ‘I ate all the okonomiyaki<\/strong><\/a>.’ But it’s ok, I’ve forgotten all about that now. ;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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