Being the Awaodori idiot I am I can’t really stop blogging about the subject! At last weekends Awaodori festival in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, in Kyodo, I saw this great team, the Tenshoren (天翔連). Kyodo is one of the trickier festivals to dance in and also one of the trickiest to enjoy as a spectator, still this great team managed to put on fantastic smiles throughout the two hours of non stop dancing in the sweltering heat. The more you learn about Awaodori, the traditional folk dance from Tokushima Prefecture in southern Japan, the more you understand that the single most important ability is the ability to smile, and this team has it down almost perfect. Smiling is really contagious, and after seeing Tenshoren perform it is really hard not to be infected by their happiness!
