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It was hypnotic. Also exciting. The Japanese theater and dance show that opened the third – and last – week of the 52nd International Cervantino Festival, Hiroshima Kaguraamazed the attendees who filled the Alhóndiga de Granaditas, because the two productions that made it up, Tsuchigumo and Yamata-no-Orochithey were colorful, synchronized, historical. More than one viewer said ‘perfection’.
He Kagura It is, according to the Cervantino website, “a form of dance-theater that means entertainment of the gods.” This ancient artistic representation came to Guanajuato to amaze with two legends that make up the identity of the Japanese country: Tsuchigumothe story of a spider-demon who, out of ambition, wants to kill Raiko Minamoto, a member of royalty. AND Yamata no Orochiwhich tells the epic of the god Susanoo when he defeats an eight-headed snake to avoid the sacrifice of a young woman.
In both stories, the artists execute in a masterful way, for example: that cadence and accuracy so that, between turns when they are fighting with the spider-demon, they do not stumble or collide with each other. Or when the god Susanoo, armed only with his blessed sword, rips off the fierce and sparkling heads of the snake.
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