Watching the movie “Still the Lion Continues His Journey: The Journal of Ise-Daikagura by Yamamoto Gendayu Company” + Demonstration of Edo Daikagura
Date/Time：Sat 25 2023 18:00-21:00
Venue：Space&Cafe POLE POLE
“The film ethnography “Still the Lion Continues His Journey: The Journal of Ise-Daikagura by Yamamoto Gendayu Company,” which closely follows the people of Ise Daikagura who continue to travel while performing lion dances and acrobats, and their lives in the time of COVID-19.
In addition to the film’s supervisor, Chie Jinno, Kagami Michiyo, who makes her living from Edo daikagura in Tokyo, will also join the talk sesssion.
After the screening, we will hear about the history of daikagura in the East and West, the differences in the forms of performance, its appeal, and its current status after the Corona disaster. There will also be a daikagura demonstration by Michiyo Kagami.
Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, ILCAA Core Project“Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, ILCAA“FIELDPLUS”Editorial departmen;Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the“Time of Corona”-Response to the crisis, negotiation on Physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643)