Face To Face
Season 4, Episode 3: Yachiyo Inoue: Tradition in Full Bloom
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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.
All Episodes - Season 4
Episode 1
Masahisa Kogure: Serving Both Sides of the Table
Episode 2
Yasunari Hiraki: Word by Word
Episode 3
Yachiyo Inoue: Tradition in Full Bloom
Episode 4
Kyoko Fukuchi: The Tsukiji Legacy
Episode 5
Kiyomi Mikuni: Japanese Cuisine at the Olympics
Episode 6
Yoshinori Kaneko: Bringing Back from Extinction
Episode 7
Yasuji Hirasawa: The Unheard Voices of Leprosy
Episode 8
Eiko Kadono: Weaving Magic with Words
Episode 9
Eiichi Saitoh: Resilience and Recovery Come in Pairs
Episode 10
Takafumi Tsuruta: Eliminating Borders through Fashion
Episode 11
Hitoshi Kuninaka: Never Say No to a Challenge
Episode 12
Chieko Kuribayashi: Saving Communities One Meal at a Time