Bulgarian Folk Dancing in Japan.

As is tradition, in the lead up to next month's Jr High School Bunkasai/Culture Festival, the kids get to watch real life grown up professionals who do the artistic cultural thing. This year we had Bulgarian Folk Dancers, who are in Fukuoka for some kind of cultural shindig. Very cool. Reminded me of both Greek and Russian dancing and music that I've seen. Obviously, given the geographies, but still.

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In the interest of cultural exchange, the kids responded with some choral orchestrations.

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What happens when you give a Jr High School teenager, filled with hormones, your camera for a little bit. He was inordinately satisfied at having snapped this pic.

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Not sure who she was exactly, lest she was queen of the Bulgarians or somesuch. She didn't take part in the singing or dancing... we'll chalk that up to cultural misunderstanding then.

More/bigger pics here, and the vid of the kids singing -

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