Thank you so much for joining 11 dance workshops and and three dances. It was so fun. Hope they will come back to Tokyo again!
Full video HERE
Thank you so much for joining 11 dance workshops and and three dances. It was so fun. Hope they will come back to Tokyo again!
Full video HERE
Have you already enjoyed RRR? RRR’s “Naatu Naatu” won the Academy Award 2023 for best original song.
この映画、1920年代のイギリス植民地支配に対するインド独立闘争が時代背景で、その実、インド映画ならではのダンスファイトを中心に持ってきたエンターテインメント映画。ハイライトは Naatu Naatu という歌詞の歌に合わせて Naatu dance で対決するシーンでした。2023年のアカデミー賞のベストオリジナルソング部門を取りました。
There is a part about ‘Ladies’ Twist’ at the book Frankie Manning, Ambassador of Lindy Hop.written by Frankie Manning and Cynthia R. Millman. That’s an English version of course. And there is the Japanese edition too, but there are lots of translation errors in it.
Since this is one of important parts of the book, I made its abstract in Japanese below.
抄訳:ツイスト誕生秘話
英文原作は細かい時代背景や登場人物のひととなり、会話の詳しい描写が多々書き込まれていて、当時のことを知るなら一級の歴史資料です。一方、要はどういう経緯なのかを簡単に理解するには、このような抄訳の方が向いていると思い、ここに作成した次第です。
Japanese abstract translated by Hiro
Frankie Manning Foundation が2019年、その Web 上で5月のフランキーの Birthday Month に合わせて、「Lindy Hop Values」を世界各国語に翻訳して並べてみよう、というプロジェクトを行いました。全部で8種類8色の絵から成っています。日本もそれに参加し、日本語版を作成しました。詳しくはこちらです。
Have you already watched RRR, an Indian dance movie? If not, hurry up to go to the cinema. The story is about independence movements in India against the U.K. in 1920s. And a high light scene for us is that it features ‘SWING’. It is just a couple of seconds, but the impact is super CHOooo awesome. Never miss it with a huge screen at a cinema! Not with streaming services on a small PC monitor.
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Recently I had a successful bid of a historical Japanese swing LP that was lively recorded in Tokyo in 1963. It’s a joint concert with two famous big bands featuring also two fabulous jazz vocalists from Japan and the US.
Count Basie And His Orchestra featuring Chiemi Eri
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Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats featuring Jimmy Witherspoon
Nobuo Hara (1926-2021): The best Japanese swing big band leader ever
Chiemi Eri (1937-1982): Japanese super vocalist who is one of my favorite ones
Some of the tunes were uploaded on YouTube by someone, but those sounds quality was not so good. So, I’d like to play the LP for dancing at Tokyo Swing Night at fai Aoyama on February 1st . Let’s have a good dancing time!
Swing Revival, July, 2020