Sugito Shirayuri Music & Dance Festival

Carl here...

Every Monday and Tuesday morning I work at a very prestigious local kindergarten, where Amy also has two private English classes every Friday too. The kindergarten is only about five minutes walk from our house so it’s very convenient. Anyway, a few weeks ago Amy and I hitched a ride with Yoshihara Sensei (from Shiramizu) to Kasukabe, a large town about 15 minutes drive or 9 minutes train ride (express!) from Sugito to watch the ‘Sugito Siayuri Music and Dance Festival’.

I must admit that I was looking forward to it; I’d been watching some of the kids practise and it looked great.

The show was taking place in a large theatre close to Robinson’s department store (sorry I don’t know the name of the theatre).

The show started with a lot of the younger kids (3-4 yrs) playing along to a piano.

Then another group of classes came onstage to play ‘twinkle twinkle little star’ with the keyboard.

After the group activities, all the individual classes took their turn performing their set piece. Which varied greatly...

...from the very cute...


...too funny...


Air guitar is totally underrated!
...to a little strange...

...and to really cool...!

Nunchaku...!

...a bit of a wedding...

Each class put together a great show, with some classes having up to three costume changes in one set!

The whole show was professionally produced, with a TV crew and everything! A lot of the parents had worked endlessly for an entire month making the fantastic costumes too.

The choreography, lighting and music was also great and the whole thing was great fun!