On November 28, at 19:00 p.m. the Japanese actress Sayoko Shirotani had a performance at “Hikari” Armenian-Japanese Cultural Center.She performed with the traditional Japanese musical instrument shamisen and presented it with a song.
Then she showed the art of proper packaging of that instrument. Then she started to teach the audience the traditional way of men’s and women’s dancing in the Japanese theatre. After which there was a small part of the dance with a fan in the traditional Japanese kabuki theatre, then the performance of the art of fighting with swords. After that, again involving the audience in the performance, she showed a small performance in the Japanese style but in Armenian. Then she showed the performance of the art of drinking alcohol,
which was followed by a Japanese tongue-twister.
At the end, the Japanese actress Sayoko Shirotani told the audience that it had been her first visit to Armenia and that as she liked the country very much, she had great hopes to come here again.
And she finished her performance under the music of the song “Swallow”, by organizing a dance performance, which imitated “Bon” dance (dance in memory of the dead people).
The performance was completed by “Hikari” cultural center by showing the song “Swallow”, which their guest liked very much and which was performed by professional singers. There was a dinner party at the end of the event.
Author՝ H. Muradyan
translated from Armenian into English by M.Vardanyan