Haiku challenge – Kagura dance at night

03 Aug 2013

Haiku challenge – Kagura dance at night

This time Carpe Diem has provided some fascinating information to go with the daily haiku challenge. Do go and look at the post and the video of classical Japanese dance – simplicity and gracefulness personified.

I really wanted to write about it:

Night falls; the dancers

glide onstage and pause – their first steps

held back for a heart beat.

Posted in Blog challenges and sharing, Poetry, Theatre and tagged haiku challenge, Japanese court, Japanese dance, Kagura dancer

16 thoughts on “Haiku challenge – Kagura dance at night”

Francina on August 28, 2013 at 6:23 pm said:

beautiful images.. You are very good with Haiku.
groetjes, Francina

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- E A M Harris on September 4, 2013 at 9:40 am said:
  
  Thank you so much for your supportive comment.
  
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Chevrefeuille on August 5, 2013 at 12:48 am said:

Well written … touches the deeper layer of the haiku by Kikaku. As I saw that video of the dance I first thought at the wonderful world of the geisha, because the Miko or Maiko was the first stage before becoming geisha.

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- E A M Harris on October 10, 2013 at 7:31 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much for your comment. I apologise for not replying before – it danced off into the spam.
  
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Ese' s Voice on August 4, 2013 at 5:48 pm said:

The greater artists, the bigger pause… Beautiful!

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- E A M Harris on August 5, 2013 at 4:26 pm said:
  
  So true – the great artists give time for the audience to think and feel. Thank you for your comment.
  
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Björn Rudberg (brudberg) on August 4, 2013 at 1:54 pm said:

Wonderful to focus on the pause… digging down to the essence of it.

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- E A M Harris on August 5, 2013 at 4:27 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much for your comment and for pointing out that even a pause has an inner meaning.
  
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jrbsays on August 4, 2013 at 10:48 am said:

Perfectly choreographed words!

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- E A M Harris on August 5, 2013 at 4:28 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate it.
  
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Mark M. Redfearn on August 3, 2013 at 8:51 pm said:

A dramatic pause!

Three Dancers

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- E A M Harris on August 4, 2013 at 10:01 am said:
  
  Thank you for stopping by to read and comment. The dancers are masters and mistresses of the dramatic pause and I think Japanese art uses it a lot.
  
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Maggie Grace on August 3, 2013 at 7:50 pm said:

Very nice…held back for a heartbeat. Lovely words.

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- E A M Harris on August 4, 2013 at 10:02 am said:
  
  Thank you for your lovely comment. IMO the heartbeat is a fundamental time measure.
  
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bridget whelan on August 3, 2013 at 7:40 pm said:

Oh, this is wonderful. A precise and delicate moment captured

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- E A M Harris on August 4, 2013 at 10:04 am said:
  
  Thank you for your lovely comment. Looking at the video on the Carpe Diem blog, it seemed to me that the dancers were using pauses to great effect.
  
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