Friday, October 23 8pm to 9pm: Opening of the festival with Nisshin Toda from Onjuin temple near Tokyo, drumming group “Sakura No Ki Taiko”, Tejo Janssen and others
Saturday, October 24
10am to 4pm: Workshop with Kei Takei, “The Roots of Dance” 4.30pm to 6pm: Movement Concept class with Ingo Taleb Rashid and team 8pm: Performance: Kei Takei: “Light – Part 8“; Teruko Fujisato: “LIFE”; Setsuko Yamada: “Wearing Rose Pink”
Sunday, October 25
10am to 4pm: Workshop with Teruko Fujisato, “Modern Dance Techniques, including Japanese Traditional Dance Movements” 4.30pm to 6pm: Movement Concept class with Ingo Taleb Rashid and team 8pm: Performance: Tetsuya Fukushima and Gioh Ohuchi :“The Flower, the Heart, and the Sword – HANA – KOKORO – TSURUGI”
Monday, October 26
10am to 4pm: Workshop with Setsuko Yamada, “Finding Body” 4.30pm to 6pm: Movement Concept class with Ingo Taleb Rashid and team 8pm: Videos of the teachers and performers
Tuesday, October 27
10am to 4pm: Workshop with Tetsuya Fukushima and Gioh Ohuchi, “Iai-do – the Art of the Sword” 4.30pm to 6pm: Movement Concept class with Ingo Taleb Rashid and team 8pm: “Kirschblüten – Hanami”, film by Doris Dörrie
Wednesday, October 28
10pm to 5pm: Workshop with Ingo Taleb Rashid, “The Dancing Warrior” 8pm: Performance: Ingo Taleb Rashid : “Warrior Soul – the Call of the Ancestors” and finale – “The Spirit of Japan” with Ingo Taleb Rashid and guests
Additional program:
- (dis) appear
Exhibition of paintings by Ulrike Kuborn at the gallery of Marias Kino
- “Kirschblüten – Hanami”, film by Doris Dörrie