Stream it or skip it: ‘10Dance’ on Netflix, a sumptuous, sensual Japanese drama where ballroom pros find love on the dancefloor

It may look glamorous, but it’s actually a triathlon.” That’s Shinya Suzuki (Takeuchi) on 10-Dance, the grueling professional ...
KGW8

Japanese American dancer Sahomi Tachibana performed, taught students for nine decades

PORTLAND, Ore. — Sahomi Tachibana, a Japanese American master teacher and performer of Nihonbuyo (traditional Japanese dance) lives in Portland. Tachibana just turned 100 in April. The legacy she ...

Viral Japanese dance group Avantgardey to perform first solo show in Singapore in March

The two performances, part of their Avantgardey Asia Tour 2026, will take place at The Theatre at Mediacorp. Read more at ...
Religion News Service

In Mexico, a Japanese traditional dancer shows how body movement speaks beyond culture and religion

MEXICO CITY (AP) — For Latin American audiences, Kihara said, Japanese traditional dance might be hard to embrace. MEXICO CITY (AP) — When music requires her to cry, Japanese traditional dancer Naoko ...
LAist

What it’s like to visit a Japanese American Obon festival, from the spam musubi to the dancing

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Monsters and Critics

America’s Got Talent: Who is Japanese dance crew, Fusion Japan

There were a lot of amazing acts on the America’s Got Talent’s premiere, with comedians, ventriloquists, magicians, singers, and more. Now, this week’s episode had something new that was like nothing ...
Los Angeles Times

For older Asian American immigrants, ballroom dancing was supposed to be a safe haven

When a gunman fatally shot 11 people and wounded nine others in Monterey Park over the weekend, it was more than just the latest tragedy in America’s horrific mass-shooting epidemic. The gunman ...
nerdist

Japanese Students Dance to ALADDIN with Punch and Pizzazz

Ali Baba had his 40 thieves, and Scheherazade had 1000 tales, but none are as good a story as Japanese high school students from different schools coming together to put on a joyful show of “Friend ...
LAist

It’s Obon season! How to attend one of SoCal’s biggest Japanese American celebrations

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The Daily Northwestern

Dancing through Melancholy: Japanese Breakfast brings authenticity to Chicago

Japanese Breakfast performed at Chicago’s Salt Shed for three nights last weekend on their tour to share their newest album, “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).” But, the show was anything but ...
The Michigan Daily

Dairakudakan brings surreal Japanese butoh dance to ”U”

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was an auspicious beginning: It was May 1959, at a dance performance in Japan where a man was ...
The Hill

In Mexico, a Japanese traditional dancer shows how body movement speaks beyond culture and religion

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When music requires her to cry, Japanese traditional dancer Naoko Kihara barely alters her expression. It’s her arms and torso that move like a slow-motion wave. “Expression is ...