Australian born Susan Taylor practices Jiutamai, one of the traditional dances accompanied by jiuta (old songs in the Kyoto and Osaka area sung to the accompaniment of shamisen or koto). Zashikimai is a term used because it was danced in a zashiki (a Japanese-style salon) in the Imperial Palace or in a tea-house during the Edo period. Jiutamai is mainly danced alone with a sensu (folding fan), which symbolically expresses a range of things, from a stick or a candlestick to natural phenomenon. Turning the body is the main movement. Jiutamai expresses elegant, quiet beauty, handling a folding fan technically and sometimes jumping. It reveals a psychological portrait with a refined and controlled expression (video by Philippe Charluet). [AI generated French subtitles available] #Jiutamai #Japan #JapaneseDance #Imagine
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