Discover the beauty and grace of Japanese dance (odori) and celebratory Obon dances with Christine Inouye.
The Obon festival is an annual Japanese celebration which commemorates and remembers deceased ancestors, and communal dance is the heart of each celebration. Participants will learn about Japanese culture in addition to the steps of popular Japanese festival dances.
Christine Inouye began her training in Japanese classical dance and later developed a passion for Minyo Odori or Japanese folk dance. She received her natori (Japanese professional name) in March of 2012.
Christine Inouye has provided dance instruction at various dance events such as Los Angeles Music Center’s Dance Downtown series and A Taste of Dance. Her specialty is creating traditional dances to contemporary upbeat music to bring a fresh approach to a dance form that is hundreds of years old.
This program is in conjunction with the Be The Change Series for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Classes & Workshops |
TAGS: | dance | BetheChange |
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Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.
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