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小島章司, 日本人のフラメンコ踊り人、フラメンコ振り付け師
Shoji Kojima, 'el Gitano Japonés', bailaor y coreógrafo
Victor-M Amela, Ima Sanchís, Lluís Amiguet
"Puedes aplastar a una persona con el peso de tu lengua"
23/05/2012 - 00:00
Shoji Kojima, 'The Gypsy Japanese', dancer and choreographer
Amela Victor M, Ima Sanchis, Lluís Amiguet
Amela Victor M, Ima Sanchis, Lluís Amiguet
http://www.lavanguardia.com/lacontra/20120523/54297275991/shoji-kojima-aplastar-persona-peso-lengua.html
"You can crush a person with the weight of your tongue"
23/05/2012 - 00:00
the samurai
The fragility of the Japanese Gypsy, a man of great delicacy and humility is his strength. Has taken up flamenco dancing on the mixing technique of the dancer and the dancer and a deep feeling that starts in childhood. He came from a small island in Japan in 1970 came out in Open Studio (TVE) and became famous in Spain, six years later he returned to Japan and set up his studio, which came out great shows that were seen around the world. The King of Spain awarded him the Cross of Officer of the Queen Elizabeth (2000) and the Order of Civil Merit (2009), and the Emperor of Japan with the Purple Medal (2003). It works in the Mercat de les Flors (City Flamenco Festival).
The fragility of the Japanese Gypsy, a man of great delicacy and humility is his strength. Has taken up flamenco dancing on the mixing technique of the dancer and the dancer and a deep feeling that starts in childhood. He came from a small island in Japan in 1970 came out in Open Studio (TVE) and became famous in Spain, six years later he returned to Japan and set up his studio, which came out great shows that were seen around the world. The King of Spain awarded him the Cross of Officer of the Queen Elizabeth (2000) and the Order of Civil Merit (2009), and the Emperor of Japan with the Purple Medal (2003). It works in the Mercat de les Flors (City Flamenco Festival).
He was born on the shores of the Pacific.Yes, at the mouth of a river. And that was everything to me.
What was your home?Very simple, built on the sea. In summer open the sliding rice paper on my mat and saw a gigantic moon was everywhere.
What I saw on the moon?Small animals that moved. The sand was very white and the waves rose and fell very slowly: to my heart pounding pace. That was my world, silent and magical, belonged to him, as the crickets.
...I've never have that sense of unity or mystery, just a few poems by García Lorca returned me to that place. I think that the great poets such as children.
The wealth sensitivity and pain.Life was full of rules, gossip, was an oppressive atmosphere, so I wanted to sing and dance. I was lucky that there came a voice teacher at the Tokushima prefecture that allowed me to vent my inner world and outline my dream.
What was that dream?I would imagine a very small boat and came to another world.
Recognized by kings and teachers returned to their village half a century later.I went back to acting and wanted to teach children to dance a Sevillana, but people my age who also insisted taught to them. They have a very pure heart, but as a child look like yours, eyes eyes, you hurt the heart.
You still have the sensitivity to the surface.The older brother of my father had no sons, and my grandfather decided that the second son of my father would be for him. That was me. I lived within my own until I could go study in Tokyo and the age of 26 from the port of Yokohama to Moscow, then the Siberian, Europe and Spain.
Why did the flamenco?I really do not know. Perhaps the sight of Antonio Gades I identified with that ball inside. Then I was digging more and more to understand that art is a bottomless.
He arrived in Spain in the sixties, not have been easy to adapt ...
I took very seriously my own decision and so nothing was difficult. I fell very ill and I ran out of money, just ate, but I considered not returning to Japan.
In the world of flamenco, was not you rather a freak ...?
When Rafael Farina hired me as the first dancer of the company, said the singer did not sing for a Chinaman, ju, ju, ju, there were some who thought so, but I also found people who helped me.
What have you learned from life?Than a grain of rice contains the universe. I was immersed in understanding flamenco and its culture. There is no end, there is only way. Evolution, an old Japanese proverb says, never ends, it transforms into the image of the being that lives.
Do not feel alone?It was okay ... I think. To achieve deep learning one thing I thought I should live alone, and so decided.
You're like a monk.A little more than a monk, ju, ju, ju.
He landed in the top tablaos Malaga, Cadiz, Seville ...The people were very loving, hugged me, kissed me.
Does that cured him of his childhood?No childhood is like this scar on my forehead. The day I knew I had been given, I stuck a dagger in the chest.
You have not pursued success.No. Two years ago I broke my Achilles heel and I just recovered in four months, knowing that if it was the end. Dance of necessity, is how I explore myself.
How do you feel on stage?Sometimes I have fear and tremble.
But if you act before kings, princes and emperors!Maybe I did well yesterday, but I always look forward.
Who has loved most in life?My mother. Intimamos never, never hugged, but it gave me life and love.
What is the nicest thing you have said?She told me that life is a river and had to walk down the sidewalk without disturbing anyone.
That's not nice.Respect is my prayer. You can crush a person with the weight of your tongue.
What has surprised you in life?Other than the flamenco? ... See and imagine a happy family who love and generosity with patience .. It's so hard.
You have made female roles.Yes, Celestina (soon reestrenaré in Spain). In Japanese theater men do female roles, so interested and I also learned to be a dancer. When I returned to Japan after many years in Spain, the only way to make a living was teaching and almost all were students.
Is that why you are so ambiguous?Yes, I'm not dancing woman or man.
Why did you decide to return to Japan?Here, without an employment contract did not give me the residence, and in this profession, how much money you earn, it may be months between a contract and another. It was as if I had to carry their passports at the mouth, so little by little I felt uncomfortable.
What was your home?Very simple, built on the sea. In summer open the sliding rice paper on my mat and saw a gigantic moon was everywhere.
What I saw on the moon?Small animals that moved. The sand was very white and the waves rose and fell very slowly: to my heart pounding pace. That was my world, silent and magical, belonged to him, as the crickets.
...I've never have that sense of unity or mystery, just a few poems by García Lorca returned me to that place. I think that the great poets such as children.
The wealth sensitivity and pain.Life was full of rules, gossip, was an oppressive atmosphere, so I wanted to sing and dance. I was lucky that there came a voice teacher at the Tokushima prefecture that allowed me to vent my inner world and outline my dream.
What was that dream?I would imagine a very small boat and came to another world.
Recognized by kings and teachers returned to their village half a century later.I went back to acting and wanted to teach children to dance a Sevillana, but people my age who also insisted taught to them. They have a very pure heart, but as a child look like yours, eyes eyes, you hurt the heart.
You still have the sensitivity to the surface.The older brother of my father had no sons, and my grandfather decided that the second son of my father would be for him. That was me. I lived within my own until I could go study in Tokyo and the age of 26 from the port of Yokohama to Moscow, then the Siberian, Europe and Spain.
Why did the flamenco?I really do not know. Perhaps the sight of Antonio Gades I identified with that ball inside. Then I was digging more and more to understand that art is a bottomless.
He arrived in Spain in the sixties, not have been easy to adapt ...
I took very seriously my own decision and so nothing was difficult. I fell very ill and I ran out of money, just ate, but I considered not returning to Japan.
In the world of flamenco, was not you rather a freak ...?
When Rafael Farina hired me as the first dancer of the company, said the singer did not sing for a Chinaman, ju, ju, ju, there were some who thought so, but I also found people who helped me.
What have you learned from life?Than a grain of rice contains the universe. I was immersed in understanding flamenco and its culture. There is no end, there is only way. Evolution, an old Japanese proverb says, never ends, it transforms into the image of the being that lives.
Do not feel alone?It was okay ... I think. To achieve deep learning one thing I thought I should live alone, and so decided.
You're like a monk.A little more than a monk, ju, ju, ju.
He landed in the top tablaos Malaga, Cadiz, Seville ...The people were very loving, hugged me, kissed me.
Does that cured him of his childhood?No childhood is like this scar on my forehead. The day I knew I had been given, I stuck a dagger in the chest.
You have not pursued success.No. Two years ago I broke my Achilles heel and I just recovered in four months, knowing that if it was the end. Dance of necessity, is how I explore myself.
How do you feel on stage?Sometimes I have fear and tremble.
But if you act before kings, princes and emperors!Maybe I did well yesterday, but I always look forward.
Who has loved most in life?My mother. Intimamos never, never hugged, but it gave me life and love.
What is the nicest thing you have said?She told me that life is a river and had to walk down the sidewalk without disturbing anyone.
That's not nice.Respect is my prayer. You can crush a person with the weight of your tongue.
What has surprised you in life?Other than the flamenco? ... See and imagine a happy family who love and generosity with patience .. It's so hard.
You have made female roles.Yes, Celestina (soon reestrenaré in Spain). In Japanese theater men do female roles, so interested and I also learned to be a dancer. When I returned to Japan after many years in Spain, the only way to make a living was teaching and almost all were students.
Is that why you are so ambiguous?Yes, I'm not dancing woman or man.
Why did you decide to return to Japan?Here, without an employment contract did not give me the residence, and in this profession, how much money you earn, it may be months between a contract and another. It was as if I had to carry their passports at the mouth, so little by little I felt uncomfortable.
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