Face To Face

Season 4 Episode 3: Yachiyo Inoue: Tradition in Full Bloom

Kyoto celebrates spring with Miyako Odori, a 400-year-old dance festival featuring the geiko and maiko of Gion. The choreographer of this month-long event is Yachiyo Inoue, the 5th generation master of Kyomai, a school of dance characterized by elegant and highly stylized movements accentuated by stomping. Kyomai is suffering from a lack of successors. But Inoue is striving to keep the tradition alive with new dances that incorporate elements from other genres, as we'll hear on Face To Face.

Genre:

Documentary, Talk

Seasons:

12

Episodes:

101

Cast:

Robert Campbell

Quality:

HD

Duration:

28 min

First Air:

2015

Rating:

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