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I would have called this event Open House Carnival. It’s basically a time for all the clubs to show off their talents; soooo many clubs. Every building had rooms and rooms of them: from Kanji to flower arranging, kimono to tea ceremony. There were performances in the big halls and small halls, outside and in the forum halls. Good bands and even popular entertainers. I saw a rendition of Phantom of the Opera performed in Japanese in the music building’s underground recital hall (nice place). The hall was perfectly acoustically designed for sound recording (not so for a musical performance, actually horrible). The performance was what is to be expected from second year Japanese university students. A couple of the most interesting things were them using fans during the masquerade sequence and the fact that nobody applauded at the end of the songs. Silence. It was torture for me. Speaking of applauding, I spent most of the time in the main hall watching the performance because I didn’t want to walk around outside; the clubs had booths everywhere barking and selling food for 100 yen (microwaved hash browns with partially melted cheese and ketchup was one of the most interesting ones). But I digress. Their were a few great performances from the mandolin club, a singer, and the band but all of them had the same annoying problem–nobody clapped between songs. I couldn’t believe it. I thought maybe they thought the songs were part of an overture in which you don’t clap between pieces. Why didn’t they clap? What was really funny was when I started to clap suddenly 500 people started clapping. hmmm. All in all a very interesting experience. I’ll be hading back next year to continue my “research ABOVE IMAGE from the Fashion Show
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4 Comments posted on "Uni School Festival - Clapping"
The Warrior on October 24th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Mike, Those Hash Browns with melted cheese & ketchup sound like a deal for 100 Yen. I always wondered about the clapping thing too, because I have noticed the same thing happen at other performances. I heard a couple of different thoughts on it, some Japanese said it was rude to clap. Others said Japanese are too shy to start clapping. So maybe your clapping got rid of everyone’s shyness.
Shell on October 24th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
None of those girls look that happy! What did you do to them, Mike?
Mike on October 24th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I hope my clap helped. Shell…hehe
The Warrior on October 25th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I think if they dressed differently they perhaps would be happier. You must be logged in to post a comment. |
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