Kagura: A Dance Fit for the Gods
Kagura is a ritual dance associated with autumn that, according to legend, was entertaining enough to coax the goddess of the sun to come back out of a cave and light the world again.
Kagura is a ritual dance associated with autumn that, according to legend, was entertaining enough to coax the goddess of the sun to come back out of a cave and light the world again.
This thousand-year-old Shinto dance is both graceful and opulent. But watching outdoors can be cold!
Noh scholar Diego Pellecchia shows how it's done.
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