<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673</id><updated>2012-03-03T16:48:16.990+09:00</updated><category term='promotion'/><category term='Concert and Dance'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='upcoming'/><category term='thanks'/><category term='events'/><category term='felicity'/><category term='youtube'/><category term='wataru'/><category term='website'/><category term='higashiyama'/><category term='links'/><category term='Armelle'/><category term='singing around the table'/><category term='gnome'/><category term='Festival Junino'/><category term='tomoko'/><category term='announcement'/><category term='Emergency dance'/><category term='kyoto shimbun'/><category term='Dance Notes'/><category term='sayaka'/><category term='Brazil'/><category term='akazawa'/><category term='video'/><category term='NHK'/><title type='text'>Contrakyoto blog</title><subtitle type='html'>News and information for the Contrakyoto group...see &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;our website&lt;/a&gt; for more info...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>80</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-6233535845800206532</id><published>2012-03-03T16:48:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-03-03T16:48:17.051+09:00</updated><title type='text'>thank you and news</title><content type='html'>This is just a quick thank you to everyone who turned out to the recent dances at Higashiyama and Tambabashi/Fushimi. We had some very nice dances, and I am glad to say, even though we announced it was last minute, that we were able to raise 5,000 yen to the schop-dan fireworks festival. Well done everyone!&lt;p&gt;先月の東山ダンス、伏見ダンスに参加してくれたみなさん、どうもありがとう！いくつかとてもいいダンスも踊れて、そして直前のお知らせだったにも関わらず、スコップ団に寄付するために5000円を集めることができました！ゆうちょ銀行のほうから、もう振り込みました。ほんとうにどうもありがとう。&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, I was introduced to the head of another project helping East Japan Earthquake survivors, this time in Otsuchi in Iwate. In commemoration of the first anniversary of the earthquake, they are holding a photo exhibition at the International Community Center in the beginning of March. I saw some of the pictures of their town before and after the disaster, and they are very interesting, so I am looking forward to seeing the full exhibition. It turns out they need volunteers to help man the information tables and set up the hall, so if you are at all interested, please contact Etsuko Chida at &lt;a href="mailto:chidalohae@yahoo.co.jp"&gt;chidalohae@yahoo.co.jp&lt;/a&gt;　and see their website: &lt;a href="http://www.guruttootsuchi.org/"&gt;http://www.guruttootsuchi.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;そして偶然にも、東北の被災地を支援しているほかの団体のひとと先日知り合いました。岩手の大槌で活動しているそうです。あの日からもうすぐ一年経つので、蹴上の国際交流会館にて写真展を行うそうです。災害以前以後の写真を少し見せてもらいましたが、とても興味深かったです。準備段階や当日のスタッフで、まだボランティアの人数が足りていないようなので、ボランティアをしたいという人はちだえつこさん&lt;a href="mailto:chidalohae@yahoo.co.jp"&gt;chidalohae@yahoo.co.jp&lt;/a&gt;　までメールをしてみてください。一時間でも二時間でも、ありがたいそうです。団体のＨＰはこちらです。&lt;a href="http://www.guruttootsuchi.org/"&gt;http://www.guruttootsuchi.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lastly, I must mention for all you dance lovers that the Wim Wenders movie&amp;#160;&amp;#160;(&amp;quot;Pina&amp;quot;) about the great dancer/choreographer Pina Bausch is playing at T-Joy Cinema&amp;#160; in Aeon mall. It was awesome!&lt;p&gt;最後に、ダンスがだいすきな人たちみんなにおすすめしたいのが、ヴィム・ベンダース監督の映画「ピナ」です。今京都駅南のイオンモールで上映中です。すごかったよ！&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, the Tamabashi/Fushimi there will be having a &amp;quot;Salad Bowl&amp;quot; Festival, and one of the &amp;quot;veggies&amp;quot;, I guess, will be an intro to contradancing. Info at: &lt;a href="http://www.ys-kyoto.org/fushimi"&gt;www.ys-kyoto.org/fushimi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;そして、伏見では3月11日（日）に&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://st-patricksdayinkyoto.jimdo.com/"&gt;http://st-patricksdayinkyoto.jimdo.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;サラダボウルフェスティバルというイベントがあるそうです。コントラダンスの紹介もあるみたいですよ。ここでチェックしてね。 &lt;a href="http://www.ys-kyoto.org/fushimi"&gt;www.ys-kyoto.org/fushimi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our next dance is St. Patrick&amp;#39;s Day&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://st-patricksdayinkyoto.jimdo.com/"&gt;http://st-patricksdayinkyoto.jimdo.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;and I am still working on the April Dance, so stay tuned...keep dancing, keep smiling.&lt;p&gt;ぼくたちの次のダンスは3月17日（土）聖パトリックスの日にあります！4月のダンスはまだ調整中です。チャンネルはそのままで！&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;David&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6233535845800206532?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3086069743602929356</id><published>2012-02-17T22:27:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T22:27:22.582+09:00</updated><title type='text'>土曜日：東北　カンパ　ダンス</title><content type='html'>さあさあ次のダンスが今週末に近づいてきました！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;突然ですが、今回のダンスで集まったお金は、場所代とお礼代以外、震災でなくなった方たちへの鎮魂花火のために寄付させていただきたいと思っています。ぜひぜひいらしてくださいね！&lt;br /&gt;「天国にぶっぱなせ！」は、来月の３月１０日、くもりでも雨でも、宮城にて行う花火大会です。スコップ団という、被災した家を清掃する活動（そしてその家の方が帰る前に去るんだそう）をしてきた団体が主催しています。お墓にお供えするお花のように、天国にいる２万人の死者、行方不明者のみなさんに「元気だよ」と伝えるための花火です。ぜひ、くわしくは以下のＵＲＬをご参照ください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.1101.com/yamamotocho/2011-09-13.html" target="_blank"&gt;スコップ団のことがよくわかるページ&lt;/a&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.1101.com/schopdan/2012-02-16.html" target="_blank"&gt;「天国にぶっぱなせ！」のことがよくわかるページ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://schop-dan.com/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;スコップ団のＨＰ　&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;そして直前のお知らせですが、フランスから特別なお客様、ミッシェル・ブリオンさんが来てくれます。直輸入のフレンチコントラが楽しめますよ！以前来てくれたときも、とても楽しかったです。これは見逃せません。そして、今回も生演奏の音楽で踊れます！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;できるなら、早い時間に来てください。特に新しいダンサーたちは、最初に基本の動きをおさらいします。5時からです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;それと、３月３日にはアイリッシュパブ、ノームにてシンギング・アラウンド・ザ・テーブルがあることもお知らせします。先月コントラダンスのあとそのまま大勢でおじゃましたのですが、３０人以上の人達と、おいしいご飯と音楽がたくさんのすばらしい時間を過ごしました。あなたもぜひ来てみてください！詳しくは下記に。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;そしてもちろん、２月２６日の伏見ダンス、そして３月の聖パトリックス祭も忘れずに！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;楽しい冬のイベントが目白押し！ぜひそこかしこでお会いしましょう！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;デイビッド&lt;br /&gt;&lt;canvas height="250" style="display: none; left: 0; opacity: 1; position: fixed; top: 0; z-index: -999;" width="692"&gt;&lt;/canvas&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3086069743602929356?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post_17.html' title='コントラダンスは３月１７日に京都でセントパトリックス祭に参加します！'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3297875136213570268</id><published>2012-02-17T22:16:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T22:16:52.712+09:00</updated><title type='text'>This Saturday: Tohoku Benefit Dance!</title><content type='html'>We have a special announcement about the Dance this Saturday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are going to donate all the proceeds from the dance to the "Shooting up to Heaven" Fireworks Festival in Miyagi. &lt;br /&gt;This event is a special memorial for those who died in the Tohoku Quake last year. &lt;br /&gt;It's inspiration is that, just as we might tenderly place flowers on a grave in memory of a loved one, the lighting of the fireworks will send prayers to the 20,000 who tragically perished.&lt;br /&gt;The event is being put on by Schop-Dan, a volunteer group that anonymously provides post-quake clean up on behalf of those who are not able to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.1101.com/yamamotocho/english/2011-10-20.html" target="_blank"&gt;An article about Schop-Dan (english)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.1101.com/schopdan/2012-02-16.html" target="_blank"&gt;Shooting Up To Heaven (japanese only)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://schop-dan.com/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Schop-Dan homepage (japanese only)&lt;/a&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well we are gearing up for another great dance this Saturday including live music. &lt;br /&gt;One piece of last minute news is that we will have a special guest, Michel Brion, all&lt;br /&gt;the way from France, who will lead us in some authentic french contras. We&lt;br /&gt;have done these before and they are a lot of fun, so don't miss it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please come early if you can, especially new dancers, as I will review all the basic steps at 5:00.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I should announce that March 3rd there will be a Singing Around the&lt;br /&gt;Table event at Gnome. Last month many of us went over after the dance and&lt;br /&gt;it was a wonderful time with over 30 people and lots of good food and&lt;br /&gt;music. I recommend coming if you can! See the announcement attached below for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course, let's not forget the next Fushimi Dance on the 26th &lt;br /&gt;and the St. Patrick's day dance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lot's of winter fun up ahead, so see you all very soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/6mASp" target="_blank"&gt;MAP 地図&lt;/a&gt; for regular events&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/r7NKF" target="_blank"&gt;VIDEO ビデオ&lt;/a&gt; for all events&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/" target="_blank"&gt;HOMEPAGE HP&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/NjROp" target="_blank"&gt;FACEBOOK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com" target="_blank"&gt;CONTACT&lt;/a&gt; for all events is &lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;携帯 070 6475 5855&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Dance!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2821246442094891911</id><published>2012-02-17T22:15:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T22:29:16.516+09:00</updated><title type='text'>ありがとうとだいじなおしらせ</title><content type='html'>まず、昨夜をすばらしいダンスの夜にしてくれたみなさん、ありがとう！おめでとう！最終的に、２２人のひとが集まってくれて、５人のミュージシャンたちの音楽で踊ることができました。年も性格も出身地もばらばらで、バラエティに富んでいました。フランス、ベルギー、イラン、、、宇治、滋賀！新年の幕開けに最適のダンスでしたね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;はじめての人達もたくさん来てくれて、お互い協力しあってすばらしい結果になりました。ちいさなこどもたちがずっと踊ってくれたのにはびっくりしたし、うれしかった。いつもながら、気長に我慢強く接してくれてありがとう。お互いに、そしてなにより僕にーー僕のへたくそな日本語、ときどき間違えてまったく正反対のことを教えていたりすることに。まったくはじめて踊ったひとたちが、どんどん堂々とエネルギッシュに、にこにこしながら踊っているのを見ると、コントラダンス教えててよかったな、やっててよかったなあって思います。これ以上のしあわせはありません。&lt;br /&gt;あと、事務連絡。コントラダンスのHPが開けなくなっていると教えてもらいました。教えてくれた人達、どうもありがとう。もう直してもらったので、開けるようになったはずです。また問題があったら教えてね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;２つめは、くじびきをしてプレゼントあげるって言ってたのに、忘れてしまってたこと！次回まで待っててね。しばらく、前もって連絡してもらう方式でいきますので、次回のダンス（２月１８日）に来れるひとは、また連絡ください。急に来れるようになったひとは、もちろん来てくれてかまわないし大歓迎だけど、前もってだれがくるのかわかると、変更や大事なお知らせもしやすいしね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;それと、今の場所では、外履きの靴でそのまま踊っていいことになっています。スニーカーでもいいし、スリッパでもなんでも、踊りやすいようにご自由にどうぞ。服も同様です。踊りやすい、お好きな服装でどうぞ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;最後に、これからのダンスの予定。&lt;br /&gt;東山コントラダンス　２月１８日（土）５時から９時&lt;br /&gt;フランスの踊りプチ・バル　２月２６日（日）１０時から３時半&lt;br /&gt;伏見コントラダンス　２月２６日２時から５時まで　伏見青少年活動センター(伏見区役所４Ｆ)つながりカフェにて　&lt;br /&gt;聖パトリックス祭にて一時間くらいデモンストレーションとダンス　３月１７日（くわしくはまた連絡します）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 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href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post.html' title='ありがとうとだいじなおしらせ'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1765785050650137903</id><published>2012-02-17T22:14:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T22:29:53.055+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Felicityから：Singing Around the Table</title><content type='html'>次回の歌声喫茶は3月3日（土）です。歌いたい歌があったら持ってきてください。楽器できる人歓迎です。&lt;br /&gt;1月28日、Singing Around the Table に来てくれた人たち、ありがとうございました。一杯来てくれて、一杯リクエストしてくれて、楽器の演奏も入ったりと、すごく楽しかったです。とくに、「アメージンググレース」は大勢で気持ちよくハモることが出来て、楽しかったです。&lt;br /&gt;今回はスコットランドの国民的詩人、ロバート・バーンズの誕生日の3日あと、ということで、バーンズの詩のついた「麦畑」を日本語と原語の両方で歌ったり、スコットランドの舟歌を歌ったりできて、良かったです。&lt;br 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href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/02/felicitysinging-around-table.html' title='Felicityから：Singing Around the Table'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8553496858178064382</id><published>2012-02-17T22:13:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T22:13:20.852+09:00</updated><title type='text'>(from Felicity) Singing Around the Table</title><content type='html'>(from Felicity) &lt;br /&gt;The next &lt;a href="http://lookingathouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/singing-around-table-sat-3rd-march-2012.html" target="_blank"&gt;Singing Around the Table&lt;/a&gt;: Saturday 3rd March 8-10pm at Gnome. If you have a song or your instrument to bring, please do.　 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A big thank you to all those who came to the 28th January Singing Around the Table which was the biggest so far! Hiroko has written about it below.&lt;br /&gt;(from Hiroko) Dear Everyone: On the 28th of January we are happy to have around 25 people came to sing Scottish &amp;amp; other songs, and some people who played music instruments. The harmony was great! We would like to thank everyone who came to share our Singing Table. That day was 3 days' after Burns night, and Felicity prepared several scottish songs including ones with Burn's lyrics. Also we were happy to sing numbers in response to the requests from the participants. Also thank goes to Yuko san, Tatsuya san, Mr. Valentine's son, and other stuffs of Irish Pub Gnome for their kind hospitality to serve us good beer and food, as well as the place to sing. Thank goes to those who came with Scottish-ish clothes. Your efforts helped us feel as if we are in a Scottish-ish place. It is a very good experience to utter your voice loudly; it's fun, relaxing, and encouraging; and healthy! You don't have to sing well; just enjoy it. We are now planning the next singing around the table. We are looking forward to seeing you and your friends again. Sincerely, &lt;a href="http://lookingathouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/singing-around-table-sat-3rd-march-2012.html" target="_blank"&gt;Singing Around the Table&lt;/a&gt; (Kawano Hiroko)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- &lt;br /&gt;Felicity Greenland &lt;br /&gt;Tel: +81 (0)75 723 6256 &lt;br /&gt;Mob: +81 (0)90 9916 4761 &lt;br /&gt;Skype: fjgreenland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;canvas height="250" style="display: none; left: 0; opacity: 1; position: fixed; top: 0; z-index: -999;" width="692"&gt;&lt;/canvas&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div id="hint" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; display: block; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; left: 282px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute; 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Contra has helped spread Irish music and&lt;br /&gt;culture to lands far and wide, and Irish music and culture have carried&lt;br /&gt;contra into the hearts of dancers all over the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why we're proud to be taking part in the Annual St Patrick's Day&lt;br /&gt;Festival in Kyoto Music Festival on Saturday, March 17th. For the first&lt;br /&gt;time, a CONTRAKYOTO dance will be one of the events at the festival, so&lt;br /&gt;put on your finest green outfit and come dance with us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The opening parade starts at 12, followed by a live aeolian pipe band&lt;br /&gt;concert featuring Fuigoza at 1PM.&lt;br /&gt;At 1:30, the CONTRA dancing will start, with a live session band and&lt;br /&gt;plenty of Irish food and music from the best Irish pubs in Kyoto. Bring&lt;br /&gt;your friends and don't be late.&lt;br /&gt;At 2:50, there will be a concert by the Ethnic Music Club of Kyoto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The festival is being held at Rokkun Plaza, in shuikyogoku arcade, near&lt;br /&gt;Movix. A map and full information is available &lt;a href="http://st-patricksdayinkyoto.jimdo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;canvas height="250" style="display: none; left: 0; opacity: 1; position: fixed; top: 0; z-index: -999;" width="692"&gt;&lt;/canvas&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-9106636396325002987?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/9106636396325002987/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=9106636396325002987' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/9106636396325002987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/9106636396325002987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/02/contra-at-st-patricks-day-music.html' title='Contra at St Patrick&apos;s Day Music Festival March 17th'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1304134619575078623</id><published>2012-01-29T01:31:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T02:12:56.879+09:00</updated><title type='text'>GREAT DANCE...Some announcements</title><content type='html'>First of all thanks and congratulations to everyone for making a wonderful dance last night! We ended up having around 22 dancers  (a wonderful mix of all ages and stripes), five musicians, and people from many exotic places (France, Belgium, Iran...Uji, Shiga!). What a great way to kick off the new year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were many newcomers, and everyone really worked together so nicely it turned out awesome! I was so impressed and happy that the young kids danced with us throughout the night. Thank you all for being so patient with each other and most of all me, my rough japanese, and my sometimes backward teaching. Seeing people go from raw beginners to confident, energetic, and smiling dancers made it was a truly rewarding evening for me. I couldn't have been happier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some housekeeping: Some people have reported that for them their anti-virus (Trend Micro) is blocking our website. Thank you for letting me know. &lt;strike&gt;This is problem with our "parent" site, not our site. I have contacted Trend Micro and I hope they will be fixing the problem soon. In the meantime, I have every reason to believe the website is safe, and you can remove antivirus blocking on it if you wish, or wait till the problem is fixed.&lt;/strike&gt; I just got word from Trend Micro, and they have changed the website status to safe. Please let me know if you continue to have a problem with the site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, I forgot to give out the door prizes! So, this will have to wait till next time. For the time being we will continue to use the R.S.V.P. system, so if possible please let me know if you are coming. It is OK to show up "unannounced", but an R.S.V.P. is helpful so I can know how many people are coming and notify people of any changes or important information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also want to remind/inform people people that we are allowed to wear normal shoes in the hall. So if you want to bring comfortable shoes, like sneakers, to use, that is OK. Otherwise, we have slippers and people seem OK with dancing in those. The same thing goes for clothing...loose, casual, and comfortable for dancing is best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, here are upcoming dance events:&lt;br /&gt;Higashiyama Saturday, February 18th from 5 to 9 PM&lt;br /&gt;French Dance Sunday, February 26th from 10 to 3:30&lt;br /&gt;Fushimi Sunday February 26th from 2 to 5 at Tsunagari Cafe&lt;br /&gt;St. Patrick's day Dance March 17th, place and time to be announced.&lt;br /&gt;If you are holding an event, or know of an interesting event, please email me and I will pass it on if appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAP for regular events is: &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/6mASp" target="_blank"&gt;http://goo.gl/6mASp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VIDEO for all events is: &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/r7NKF" target="_blank"&gt;http://goo.gl/r7NKF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOMEPAGE: &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACEBOOK &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/NjROp" target="_blank"&gt;http://goo.gl/NjROp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONTACT for all events is &lt;a href="mailto://contrakyoto@gmail.com" target="_blank"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; 携帯 070 6475 5855&lt;br /&gt;&lt;canvas height="250" style="display: none; left: 0; opacity: 1; position: fixed; top: 0; z-index: -999;" width="692"&gt;&lt;/canvas&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1304134619575078623?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1304134619575078623/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1304134619575078623' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1304134619575078623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1304134619575078623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/01/great-dancesome-announcements.html' title='GREAT DANCE...Some announcements'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-5235489391485604549</id><published>2012-01-24T00:43:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T00:43:03.066+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Reminder</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;でいびっどが、フレンドリーに、かつちょっと急かしながら、来週土曜日のコントラダンスは事前予約制だということを再度お知らせします！今よりもっと集まりたいところです。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;何人かのミュージシャンの方々からは連絡をもらっているので、すばらしい音楽が期待できそうです。あとお楽しみで、プレゼントを用意しています。くじ引きでラッキーなだれがあたるかな？&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;来てくれるともうメールをくれたみなさん、どうもありがとう。あと10人ほどは開催するために必要です。来てくれる予定の人は、そのことをぜひ早めに教えてね。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;でいびっど&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is a friendly but urgent reminder that we still need people to R.S.V.P. for next&lt;br /&gt;saturday night's contra.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have heard back from few musicians, so we can look forward to some very&lt;br /&gt;good music. Also, as further incentive, I will be bringing a few door&lt;br /&gt;prizes, for "lucky" dancers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thank you to the people who have told me they plan to attend. Right now we&lt;br /&gt;still need about 10 more. Please let us know as soon as possible if you&lt;br /&gt;plan to attend.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sincerely&lt;br /&gt;David&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-5235489391485604549?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/5235489391485604549/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=5235489391485604549' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/5235489391485604549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/5235489391485604549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/01/reminder.html' title='Reminder'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2011754841530472926</id><published>2012-01-24T00:42:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T00:42:30.492+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Very Important Message</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Dear Contra Dancers Past and Present:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;First of all, Happy New Year to one and all. Please read this important email...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It is time to start thinking about the next contra dance (Saturday, January 28th, from 5-9PM at Higashiyama near Sanjo). In order not to disappoint people who may be coming from far away, I have decided to institute an R.S.V.P. system.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I think it takes about a minimum of 16 people to make a dance successful, so if you are planning to attend, you must rsvp me at contrakyoto@gmail.com or by phone 070 6475 5855 beforehand.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is very important, because if by the day before the dance (friday the 27th) it looks like we will not have enough people definitely coming, I will, sadly and reluctantly cancel the dance (despite the cost). If I do cancel it, I will send out an email and post on facebook, by saturday morning 10 am. If you are planning to come, please check for this email, especially if you are coming from far away. (If email/fb does not work for you, let me know and I will make special arrangements.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I know this may cause some inconvenience for some, but it will also save a great deal of inconvenience for all.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I really hope we will be able to have a wonderful dance. Many, if not most of you, dancers have told me how fantastically fun contra has been for you. But for various reasons, attendance has been very irregular. Please bear with me as I say a few words about this.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Like many worthwhile things in life, contra dancing has a learning curve, so it is normal to occasionally feel that it is difficult, or that you may not understand it, or are good enough, or have seen enough to decide it is not for you. If this has happened to you, I ask you hang on and keep trying. Given the uncertainties of transplanting the seeds of contra culture into the japanese soil, it may take a little longer for people to feel adjusted to it, and I ask your patience.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;While the contra steps are nominally easy, I know that fully absorbing and putting them together takes a little time. It's unfortunately true that when we don't understand something right away that we risk underestimating or failing to realize how deep and rewarding the experience will be once we get past the first stages. This leads to discouragement. That's why sticking with it is so vital to appreciating all contra has to offer.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It has been one of the difficult things for me to inspire people to have faith in the fact that I know from my own and countless other people's experiences that if one perseveres, one's enjoyment and understanding of contra can grow over time into something immensely satisfying and beyond expectation. This it the experience I really want to share with people, that is to say YOU! If I wasn't so certain of it, I wouldn't have kept working for so many years to overcome the difficulties of teaching it!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And I know, from watching several of our longstanding members, "ordinary" people with no "skill" or "experience" with dance, become smooth, elegant, and graceful dancers, who struggled and doubted and sweated and were confused and overcame it, that it can happen here and to anyone, in japan, too. Why were they different? Because they refused to believe they couldn't. They refused to believe they weren't smart, talented, young, healthy, or "good" enough. They refused to accept any excuses for not believing contra is for everyone.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It can be confusing perhaps that each event can be quite different. The particular chemistry between people at each event creates its own unique energy. There is something unpredictable, but exciting about it. There is a part of the wonder and magic of contra that can only be felt by letting yourself experience it often with different groups and on different evenings.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So don't think one dance, or even a few dances is enough. Don't let bad dances discourage you. If one dance didn't meet your expectations, please consider giving it another shot. I assure you the next will be different. Some people find their groove quickly, almost immediately, but for other people it takes a little longer. I hope people know that I will be as patient with them as they need, if they give me their patience in return.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;There is only one thing that I cannot overcome. There is a human tendency to think, "I can and want to go, but if I don't come this time, it will be alright because others will come in my place". I want to encourage people to resist that tendency, because if enough people believe this, contra will not be able to continue. The opportunity you don't take is the opportunity that is being lost now, and in the future. The more people take it now, the richer that opportunity will be now and in the future.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In sum, we can provide the music, the setting, the instruction, and more; we are here at your service and request; but it is up to you to invest your time and energy into giving contra your best shot and faith and building it into a wonderful and unique community that is truly self-sustaining and life-enriching.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I joyfully look forward to being together with you all soon....&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Best Regards....David&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;いままでのすべてのコントラダンサーのみなさまへ&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;まず何より、あけましておめでとうございます！これはとっても大切なメールなので、ぜひ読んでくださいね。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;そろそろ次のコントラダンスについて考えるころです。（東山にて１月２８日土曜日５－９時）&lt;br /&gt;遠方から来てくれるひとたちをがっかりさせないようにするために、来れるひとは前もって連絡してもらう方式にすることにしました。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;ダンスを楽しめるようにするには、最低16人は必要です。&lt;br /&gt;もし来れそうなら、前日までに連絡をお願いします。&lt;br /&gt;メールcontrakyoto@gmail.com　電話070 6475 5855&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;もし1月27日（金）までに十分来れる人がいないようだったら、とてもざんねんですが、ダンスをキャンセルしようと思います。&lt;br /&gt;当日の朝10時までには、開催できるかどうかの連絡をします。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;これでは具合が悪いという人もいるかもしれませんが、多くの人にとっていいことだと思います。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;すばらしいダンスを開催できることを本当に願っています。今までたくさんの人達が、コントラダンスがどれだけ楽しかったか、僕に伝えてくれました。しかし、いろいろな理由から、参加人数は多かったり少なかったりします。このことについて、あまり愉快ではないかもしれませんが、聞いてほしいことがあります。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;ほかのことと同じように、コントラダンスを学ぶときのラーニング・カーブというのがあると思います。だから、難しいとか、わからないとか、これは私向きじゃないなと感じるのは自然なことです。もしそう思ったなら、ぜひあきらめないで続けてください。日本の土地にコントラ文化の種を撒くのは。。。。　時間がもう少しかかりそうなので、気長にいることをお願いしたいです。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;コントラのステップはたいていかんたんですが、自由に動き回れるようになるにはすこしは時間がかかります。&lt;br /&gt;あいにく、私たちはすぐにぴんとこないことに関しては、その後どれだけ深い体験になる可能性があっても、最初の第一段階を突破しないまま辞めてしまうことがたくさんあります。だから、続けることは、コントラによって味わえる体験を十分に楽しむためには、かかせません。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;私自身、そして数え切れないほどたくさんの人達の経験から言えるのは、コントラダンスの楽しさや理解は、時間とともに巨大な満足感と予想もできなかった何かに成長するんだということです。そのことを伝えたくて、今までやってきました。今これを読んでくれているあなたと、その気持ちを共有したいのです。もしこのことに少しでも疑いがあったら、私自身こんなに何年間も、教えるという難しいことにチャレンジし続けられません！&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;そして、何人かのずっと来てくれている人達を見ていて思うのですが、彼らはきっとダンスに関してなんの「経験も」「技術も」ない「ふつうの」人達でした。彼らも、疑ったり、うまくできなかったり、汗をかいたり、困惑したりしていたと思います。それが今は滑らかに、エレガントに踊っているのです。日本でも、誰にでも、これは起こりうることなんだと思うのです。それを乗り越えた人達は、できないとか、わからないとか、若くないからとか、十分に「よく」ない、と思うことを拒否したのです。きっとできる、と、思ったのです。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;毎回、集まっている人達のエネルギーによって、場の雰囲気はかなり異なりますよね。それをマイナスにとらえるのでなく、それがコントラの不思議な魅力でもあると思って、その場に身をゆだねたら、いいんじゃないかと思います。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;ですので、もしあるダンスがあなたにとっては楽しめるようなものでなかったとしても、それでおしまいにしてしまわないでください。次は全然違うかもしれないんですから。すぐに動ける人もいるし、もっと時間をかけて動くようになる人もいます。みなさんが我慢強く気長に取り組んでくれる分だけ、私もあきらめずに取り組み続けたいのです。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;でも、これを変えることなしに、どうしようもできないことがあります。それは、「特に予定もないし、行きたい気持ちもあるけど、でも今回わたしが行かなくても、きっとほかの人が来てわたしのいない分埋めてくれるだろうから、いいや。」と思いがちなわたしたちの心です。もしたくさんのひとがこう思っていたら、コントラダンスを続けることは、できません。もしたくさんの人がいまコントラダンスをする、と選んでくれたら、今の経験も、未来の経験も、ずっと豊かなものになるでしょう。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;わたしたちは音楽も、環境も、指示も、たくさんのものに恵まれています。&lt;br /&gt;わたしたちは、あなたのために、ここにいます。あなたがじぶんの時間やエネルギーをコントラに投資するかどうかは、あなたが決めることです。すばらしいユニークなコミュニティで、人生を豊かにするために。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;喜びをもって、みなさんとご一緒するのを楽しみにしています。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;デイビッド&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2011754841530472926?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2011754841530472926/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2011754841530472926' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2011754841530472926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2011754841530472926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2012/01/very-important-message.html' title='Very Important Message'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-97730847640741511</id><published>2011-11-13T22:58:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T00:51:44.337+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><title type='text'>CONTRA the movie!</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1LyaEunFm-c?autoplay=0" width="48%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pyZgjwxyWvE?autoplay=0" width="48%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-97730847640741511?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/embed/n1_OUCfHFSg' title='CONTRA the movie!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/97730847640741511/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=97730847640741511' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/97730847640741511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/97730847640741511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/11/contra-movie.html' title='CONTRA the movie!'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/1LyaEunFm-c/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-32700277168901724</id><published>2011-11-11T17:01:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T17:01:51.438+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Upcoming in November, part 2</title><content type='html'>11/26 --- コントラの歴史 THE CONTINENTS OF CONTRA: A HISTORICAL ADVENTURE 　&lt;br /&gt;&gt;コントラの歴史を、くるくるトワルしながらおさらいしてみましょう。映像や、資料、特別ゲストもくるよ！&lt;br /&gt;This is a "histwirlical" retrospective including the Contra History Movie, Handouts, and Special Guests:&lt;br /&gt;&gt;講師：ひぐちゆうこ Yuko HIGUCHI -- コントラダンスのルーツとバロックダンス the roots of contra with some Baroque Dance 　&lt;br /&gt;&gt;講師： ロマン・ジョルダン Romain JOURDAIN -- フランスのコントラダンス French Contredanses　&lt;br /&gt;そのほか、いろんなスタイルごちゃまぜ Plus a mix of Early Colonial, New England, California, and Modern Urban....and Japanese Style Contra!　&lt;br /&gt;&gt;音楽はピーター・ダマシェクさんとお友達が担当してくれます。ぜいたく～&lt;br /&gt;Music kindly provided by Peter DAMASCHEK and Friends　&lt;br /&gt;東山市民活動いきいきセンターにて　５時から９時 5-9PM at Higashiyama ISKC　&lt;br /&gt;*****************************************************&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&gt; １１月２６日コントラが始まる前に、クリスマス・キャロルの練習第一回目をやります！ダンスと同じ、東山市民活動いきいきセンターで、クリスマスの夜、寒空の下、英語と日本語で、クリスマスのいろんな歌を歌うのです。何度もきいたことあるのに、歌詞を知らないクリスマスの歌ってたくさんあるけど、歌えるようになるよ！来てくれる人、がしがし連絡ください　＾　　　＾　　&lt;br /&gt;11/26 ---- Before the Dance, by popular demand: Annual CHRISTMAS CAROLING (1st REHEARSAL)　&lt;br /&gt;&gt;４時から、３階の部屋８番にて。&lt;br /&gt;4 PM 3rd Floor Room 8&lt;br /&gt;We had a great time last year...See VIDEOS　&lt;br /&gt;Please contact me if you are interested.&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&gt;もし、コーラーになるためのワークショップに興味がある人は、教えてね。来年行うかもしれません。&lt;br /&gt;If you are interested in being part of the CALLER'S WORKSHOP, please let me know. This will probably start next year.　&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ようし、これでしばらくは愉快なことがもりだくさんだね！近いうちに会いましょう！&lt;br /&gt;Well, that should be enough to keep your feet and other organs moving! See you soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-32700277168901724?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/32700277168901724/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=32700277168901724' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/32700277168901724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/32700277168901724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/11/upcoming-in-november-part-2.html' title='Upcoming in November, part 2'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7690464416911916358</id><published>2011-11-11T17:01:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T17:01:32.162+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Upcomding events part 1</title><content type='html'>CONTACT for events contrakyoto@gmail.com 携帯 070 6475 5855&lt;br /&gt;１１月はたくさんのイベントがあるから、じっくり読んでチェックしてね！&lt;br /&gt;We have MANY things happening this month, so this email is in two parts:&lt;br /&gt;あんまりに長いメールなので、２つに分けて流します。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;大まかに言うと summary:&lt;br /&gt;11/13 * 三条まちづくりフェスタ Sanjo Town Fest and * バスケットボール Basketball　&lt;br /&gt;　　　　&lt;br /&gt;11/26 * コントラ大陸　Continents of Contra and * クリスマスキャロルのリハーサル Christmas Caroling Rehearsal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 1 November 13th:--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--。だよ!手帳かカレンダーに書き込んでね&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;&gt;11/13 三条まちづくりフェスタ２０１１&lt;br /&gt;SANJO TOWN FESTA&lt;br /&gt;&gt;１１時開１５時まで&lt;br /&gt;From 11-3PM&lt;br /&gt;&gt;屋台、ブラスバンド、バトントワリング、カラオケ大会、そしてコントラ（２時くらいから！）！&lt;br /&gt;Performances, Food Stalls, Karaoke, Brass Band, Baton Twirling, and Contra!&lt;br /&gt;&gt;みんなの前で手本になってくれる人たちが必要なので、これる人は連絡ください)&lt;br /&gt;Volunteers NEEDED to help demonstrate! Please!&lt;br /&gt;&gt;場所　若松通り (雨天の場合　有済小学校 )&lt;br /&gt;Wakamatsu-cho (one block south of Sanjo Keihan, two blocks west of Higashiyama ISKC)&lt;br /&gt;Rain Location Yusai Shogakko.&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;******&lt;br /&gt;11/13 (same day) --- バスケット　３時から BASKETBALL FOR ALL&lt;br /&gt;&gt;どんな人でも、バスケで遊びたい人！みんなで何十年ぶりにバスケしよう！運動靴と着替え持ってきてね。&lt;br /&gt;All shapes, sizes, ability levels. Bring sports clothing and shoes.&lt;br /&gt;at Higashiyama ISKC. No need to sign up...just show up!&lt;br /&gt;******&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7690464416911916358?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7690464416911916358/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7690464416911916358' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7690464416911916358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7690464416911916358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/11/upcomding-events-part-1.html' title='Upcomding events part 1'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7160150257457805659</id><published>2011-11-01T11:38:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T11:38:59.076+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='higashiyama'/><title type='text'>New Location for Contrakyoto, and many dances coming up...</title><content type='html'>UPCOMING DANCES in FUSHIMI and HIGASHIYAMA (TAKANO) and BASKETBALL NIGHT and GAME NIGHT    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;We are really excited to announce that we have found a new location for the Takano Dance, the &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&amp;amp;tt=url&amp;amp;intl=1&amp;amp;fr=bf-res&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fshimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net%2Fgnkk14%2Fmypage%2Findex.php%3Fgid%3DG0000799&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;btnTrUrl=Translate"&gt;Higashiyama Iki iki Shimin Katsudo Center&lt;/a&gt;. It is located just a few minutes from the Sanjo Keihan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/Ni2ps" rel="lightbox" title="Map"&gt;Map&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;高野ダンスのための、す・ごくいい場所見つけました。&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/mypage/index.php?gid=G0000799"&gt;東山いきいき市民活動センター&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;といいます。三条京阪からも、地下鉄三条駅からも、徒歩3分ほどです。&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/Ni2ps" rel="lighbox" title="map"&gt;地図&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here is a map:        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/ms?msa=0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x600108cce225a887:0xc757bcddd50f90b1,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=34.990297,135.77011&amp;amp;spn=0.105954,0.014838&amp;amp;msid=204868798731941718275.00048b800300ddda97e7f&amp;amp;output=embed" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/ms?msa=0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;brcurrent=3,0x600108cce225a887:0xc757bcddd50f90b1,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=34.990297,135.77011&amp;amp;spn=0.105954,0.014838&amp;amp;msid=204868798731941718275.00048b800300ddda97e7f&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;To get there you get out of Exit 2 of the subway, go west a few blocks to "Hanami Kouji Dori" and turn south. It's at the end of the street.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;京阪三条の出口２から、東に１00メートルほど入り、花見小路通りで南に下がります。右手に見える大きな建物がセンターです。くわしい地図はHPを見てください。     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/iLr6IZ"&gt;地図&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204868798731941718275.00048b800300ddda97e7f&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=35.009041,135.775234&amp;amp;spn=0.006564,0.00928"&gt;Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here is an interactive map with a street view:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&amp;amp;ll=35.008022,135.776616&amp;amp;spn=0.000413,0.00058&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=21&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=35.008022,135.776616&amp;amp;panoid=sAN14867kyTnLM9rj0D9Hw&amp;amp;cbp=12,204.27,,0,0&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;output=svembed" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&amp;amp;ll=35.008022,135.776616&amp;amp;spn=0.000413,0.00058&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=21&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=35.008022,135.776616&amp;amp;panoid=sAN14867kyTnLM9rj0D9Hw&amp;amp;cbp=12,204.27,,0,0&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The corner on Sanjo where you have to turn:        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=35.009429,135.776639&amp;amp;panoid=8EY5fUV7M7k6zr3aemmQOg&amp;amp;cbp=12,186.62,,0,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&amp;amp;ll=35.009256,135.776639&amp;amp;spn=0.003282,0.00464&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;output=svembed" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=35.009429,135.776639&amp;amp;panoid=8EY5fUV7M7k6zr3aemmQOg&amp;amp;cbp=12,186.62,,0,0&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&amp;amp;ll=35.009256,135.776639&amp;amp;spn=0.003282,0.00464&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Higashiyama center is a great space, including &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4352.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="lightbox" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="kitchen"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4352.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;a KITCHEN so&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;we can eat there!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4341.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A BASKETBALL GYM, so GAME ON!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;date and time to be announced&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Come One Come All&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The game is free, though we will expect people to chip in to pay for the Hall (which is 1000円) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;There is a SENTO nearby so we can all chill out after the game/dance. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But we can also dance there, which makes us want to have a &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4342.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4342.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CELEBRATION DANCE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;on &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sunday, August 28,&amp;nbsp; from 5 to 9 PM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8月28日(土) 午後5時~8時&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&amp;amp;tt=url&amp;amp;intl=1&amp;amp;fr=bf-res&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fshimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net%2Fgnkk14%2Fmypage%2Findex.php%3Fgid%3DG0000799&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;btnTrUrl=Translate"&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And, by coincidence, our friend and caller BILL BARITOMPA from New Zealand is visiting Japan at that time, and he offered to be our guest caller for this dance! &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This month the dance is in one of the smaller dance rooms, but next month we will be using the full sized banquet hall&amp;nbsp; which includes sound equipment.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/pub/content_image.php?fname=i4361.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/"&gt;Takano&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BIRTHDAY DANCE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;9月24日(日) 午後5時~8時&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sunday, August 28,&amp;nbsp; 5 to 9 PM &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&amp;amp;tt=url&amp;amp;intl=1&amp;amp;fr=bf-res&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fshimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net%2Fgnkk14%2Fmypage%2Findex.php%3Fgid%3DG0000799&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;btnTrUrl=Translate"&gt;Higashiyama Iki iki Shimin Katsudo Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/mypage/index.php?gid=G0000799"&gt;東山いきいき市民活動センター&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/iLr6IZ"&gt;地図&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;times&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204868798731941718275.00048b800300ddda97e7f&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=35.009041,135.775234&amp;amp;spn=0.006564,0.00928"&gt;Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7160150257457805659?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7160150257457805659/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7160150257457805659' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7160150257457805659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7160150257457805659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-location-for-contrakyoto-and-many.html' title='New Location for Contrakyoto, and many dances coming up...'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1226330100817848936</id><published>2011-09-05T04:55:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T04:55:28.564+09:00</updated><title type='text'>videos from the higashiyama dance</title><content type='html'>Many people took videos and photos at our latest dance, and I've gathered them up on our &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/VideoColorbox.html"&gt;ビデオ&lt;/a&gt; page. Enjoy...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1226330100817848936?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/VideoColorbox.html' title='videos from the higashiyama dance'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1226330100817848936/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1226330100817848936' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1226330100817848936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1226330100817848936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/09/videos-from-higashiyama-dance.html' title='videos from the higashiyama dance'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-415354716184300987</id><published>2011-08-25T10:46:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T11:41:10.317+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Dance this Sunday and Cool Videos</title><content type='html'>THIS Sunday, August 28, from 1 to 5 PM&lt;br /&gt;Higashiyama Contra at our NEW location:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html"&gt;Higashiyama iki iki shimin katsudo center!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今週のにちようび、8月28日の午後１時から５時まで：&lt;br /&gt;東山コントラダンスがはじめて開かれます！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;場所は東山いきいき市民活動センター　（東山三条から徒歩５分）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html"&gt;地図はここを見てね&lt;/a&gt;　 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guest caller Bill Baritompa from New Zealand &lt;br /&gt;and Bosco and Heja providing music! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゲストコーラーとして、ニュージーランドからビル・バリトンパさんが来てくれます！！&lt;br /&gt;音楽を提供してくれるのはバスコさんとヘジャさん！！！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a newcomer or still learning please be come early for the &lt;br /&gt;Beginners and Refresher Workshop&lt;br /&gt;from 1:00-1:45. Coming early is advised.&lt;br /&gt;We will review of all basic figures and basic dance style. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;初めて来るひと、もしくはまだ動きがおぼつかないひとは、「初心者・おさらい講習会」が５時から５時４５分まで開かれます。&lt;br /&gt;早く来てくれると、すべての基本的な動きとダンスの方式をおさらいできます。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the break I will hold a &lt;br /&gt;Style Points Workshop. &lt;br /&gt;We will be teaching some of the fun figures you can see in this really fun  video. Please watch!&lt;br /&gt;休憩の合間に、このダンスにでてくるような動きを紹介しながら、「楽しくおどるためのちょっとしたコツ講習会」も開きます。&lt;br /&gt;このビデオはとってもたのしいし参考になると思うので、ぜひ観てみてほしいです。&lt;br /&gt;ハロウィーン・コントラのビデオなので、全精力かけて仮装にいそしむ大人たちのようすも見られます。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;click for more...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="600" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4fXWqcNyj5k" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hot contra dancing with twirls &amp;amp; flourishes adapted from swing and lindy hop"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another really cool video: Kaleidoscope Kontra!&lt;br /&gt;それとこのビデオは万華鏡のようでとてもすてきです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="Y" frameborder="0" height="600" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_3fBPtrZ00s" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questions?&lt;br /&gt;質問は、デイビッド&lt;br /&gt;Call 070 6475 5855 &lt;a href="mailto:davidcrespo@wm.pdx.ne.jp"&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;or 070 6474 2483 or &lt;a href="mailto:magicpancakes1010@wm.pdx.ne.jp"&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;まで。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-415354716184300987?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/415354716184300987/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=415354716184300987' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/415354716184300987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/415354716184300987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/08/dance-this-sunday-and-cool-videos.html' title='Dance this Sunday and Cool Videos'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/4fXWqcNyj5k/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2941662903505026718</id><published>2011-08-07T05:27:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-07T05:27:00.210+09:00</updated><title type='text'>CCD - Why We Contra Dance</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7m9EGS4iiOg?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2941662903505026718?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2941662903505026718/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2941662903505026718' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2941662903505026718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2941662903505026718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/08/ccd-why-we-contra-dance.html' title='CCD - Why We Contra Dance'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/7m9EGS4iiOg/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4987564702954992042</id><published>2011-07-25T09:43:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T12:04:04.871+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='higashiyama'/><title type='text'>Upcoming: August 28 HIGASHIYMA August 6 Fushimi etc.</title><content type='html'>Our Next HIGASHIYAMA DANCE is the    &lt;br /&gt;NEW LOCATION CELEBRATION at our &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/Ni2ps"&gt;NEW LOCATION: HIGASHIYAMA&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;on Sunday, August 28, from 1 to 5 PM     &lt;br /&gt;By coincidence, our friend and caller BILL BARITOMPA from New Zealand is visiting Japan at that time, and he has offered to be our guest caller for this dance!     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;！初・東山！お;祝いコントラ！     &lt;br /&gt;8月28日(土) 午後１時~５時 会議室９にて（２階か３階にあります。）     &lt;br /&gt;今回はニュージーランドから、コーラーのビルさんが来てくれます!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;Fushimi: Saturday, August 6, 5 to 8 PM    &lt;br /&gt;Special Location: &lt;a href="http://www.its-mo.com/map/top_z/125758070_488751290_16/" rel="lightbox" title="tsunagari cafe"&gt;Tsunagari Cafe in the Fushimi Youth Action Center&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;おとのり広場: 8月6日(土) 午後5時~8時     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.its-mo.com/map/top_z/125758070_488751290_16/" rel="lightbox" title="tsunagari"&gt;伏見青少年活動センターのつながり Cafe&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.its-mo.com/map/top_z/125758070_488751290_16/"&gt;つながりcafe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;HIGASHIYAMA (David's) BIRTHDAY DANCE   &lt;br /&gt;Saturday, September 24, 5 to 9 PM   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&amp;amp;tt=url&amp;amp;intl=1&amp;amp;fr=bf-res&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fshimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net%2Fgnkk14%2Fmypage%2Findex.php%3Fgid%3DG0000799&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;btnTrUrl=Translate" rel="lightbox" title="higashiyama"&gt;Higashiyama Iki iki Shimin Katsudo Center&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;９月ももう日にちは決まっています。   &lt;br /&gt;9月24日(土) 午後5時~9時   &lt;br /&gt;でいびっど生まれましたよお誕生日コントラ   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://shimin.hitomachi-kyoto.genki365.net/gnkk14/mypage/index.php?gid=G0000799"&gt;東山いきいき市民活動センター&lt;/a&gt;集会室（ここはすごーく広いお部屋！）&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4987564702954992042?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4987564702954992042/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4987564702954992042' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4987564702954992042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4987564702954992042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/07/upcoming-august-28-higashiyma-august-6.html' title='Upcoming: August 28 HIGASHIYMA August 6 Fushimi etc.'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4757178328192292545</id><published>2011-06-29T15:56:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T12:15:04.359+09:00</updated><title type='text'>upcoming events. Dance this sunday</title><content type='html'>1 ---------- Contra:&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, July 3rd (Fushimi Dance) Otonori Hiroba 22&lt;br /&gt;From Ishiguro-san:&lt;br /&gt;"We will have Fushimi Contra at Shimogyô-ku (Kyôto), so a lot of people can participate.&lt;br /&gt;You can walk from Kyoto station to the meeting place, so I really hope people from Osaka and Shiga will come too.&lt;br /&gt;The time is from 14:15 until 17:15, on the 3rd of July (Sunday), at &lt;br /&gt;Shimogyô Iki iki Shimin katsudô Center, on the 3rd floor.&lt;br /&gt;It's 8 minutes on foot from Kyoto station and 7 minutes from Keihan Nanajô station. &lt;br /&gt;There is no parking.&lt;br /&gt;click to see Map&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/kpUYvo"&gt;bit.ly/kpUYvo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="350" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E4%B8%8B%E4%BA%AC%E5%8C%BA%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%BA38%E7%95%AA%E5%9C%B0&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=34.980327,135.766983&amp;amp;sspn=0.025071,0.037122&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Japan,+Ky%C5%8Dto-fu+Ky%C5%8Dto-shi+Shimogy%C5%8D-ku%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%BA%EF%BC%88%E5%A1%A9%E5%B0%8F%E8%B7%AF%E9%80%9A%EF%BC%89+%EF%BC%93%EF%BC%98&amp;amp;ll=34.987148,135.765159&amp;amp;spn=0.012534,0.018561&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;output=embed" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Price : 500Y (free for Junior High-School students and below)&lt;br /&gt;You can bring some food (your special recipe!), drinks and a towel or some spare clothes."&lt;br /&gt;Live Music by Salamander Moon band.&lt;br /&gt;facebook page: &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210925018943510&amp;amp;ref=ts"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210925018943510&amp;amp;ref=ts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;オトノリ♪ひろば２２&lt;br /&gt;いつもの伏見コントラを、今回は多くの方が来られるように下京区で開催します。&lt;br /&gt;京都駅から徒歩で行けるので、大阪の方も滋賀県の方も、是非来て欲しいです。&lt;br /&gt;7月3日（日）14：15～17：15まで、下京いきいき市民活動センター　３Ｆホールにて&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mobile.its-mo.com/p1?125941440-488766130-4"&gt;http://mobile.its-mo.com/p1?125941440-488766130-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;会費：500円(中学生以下無料)&lt;br /&gt;飲み物&lt;br /&gt;音楽 Salamander Moon band.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;フェイスブック :&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210925018943510&amp;amp;ref=ts"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210925018943510&amp;amp;ref=ts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 -----------&amp;nbsp; Upcoming French Bal/Institute related:&lt;br /&gt;Sunday July 10th: French Bal at the French Institute, from &amp;nbsp;from 1 to 4 pm.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Special guest will be Michel Brion From Lyon France, who will be teaching authentic Medieval and Renaissance Dances.&lt;br /&gt;Sunday July 17th: French National Day Party on the 17th. Entrance fee 1000 Yen Dance from 3:30 to 4:30pm.&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, September 25th : French Bal&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4757178328192292545?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4757178328192292545/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4757178328192292545' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4757178328192292545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4757178328192292545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/06/upcoming-events-dance-this-sunday.html' title='upcoming events. Dance this sunday'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2877543602377640050</id><published>2011-06-14T12:57:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-03T07:36:28.482+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Bal this SUNDAY plus rehearsal at 12:00</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Romain's french bal is this Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the French Institute, as usual.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Special Guest Dana Antipova will lead Latvian Dances&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. If you would like to help with the Fete de la Musique event&amp;nbsp; on the 25th, we will be holding a rehearsal starting at 12:00.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;---Next month dances are&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4: July 3rd, Fushimi Contra,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;NEW LOCATION:&lt;br /&gt;下京いきいき市民活動センター&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;「shimogyo ikiiki shimin katsudo center」&lt;br /&gt;京都市下京区上之町38番地&lt;br /&gt;38 kami no machi shimogyo-ku&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;http://www.its-mo.com/map/mapeng.htm?lat=125941440&amp;amp;lon=488766130&amp;amp;lvl=18&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Time to be announced&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="350" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E4%B8%8B%E4%BA%AC%E5%8C%BA%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%BA38%E7%95%AA%E5%9C%B0&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=34.980327,135.766983&amp;amp;sspn=0.025071,0.037122&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Japan,+Ky%C5%8Dto-fu+Ky%C5%8Dto-shi+Shimogy%C5%8D-ku%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%BA%EF%BC%88%E5%A1%A9%E5%B0%8F%E8%B7%AF%E9%80%9A%EF%BC%89+%EF%BC%93%EF%BC%98&amp;amp;ll=34.987148,135.765159&amp;amp;spn=0.012534,0.018561&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;output=embed" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;View &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E4%B8%8B%E4%BA%AC%E5%8C%BA%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%BA38%E7%95%AA%E5%9C%B0&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=34.980327,135.766983&amp;amp;sspn=0.025071,0.037122&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Japan,+Ky%C5%8Dto-fu+Ky%C5%8Dto-shi+Shimogy%C5%8D-ku%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%8B%E7%94%BA%EF%BC%88%E5%A1%A9%E5%B0%8F%E8%B7%AF%E9%80%9A%EF%BC%89+%EF%BC%93%EF%BC%98&amp;amp;ll=34.987148,135.765159&amp;amp;spn=0.012534,0.018561&amp;amp;z=14" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;Contrakyoto Dance Locations in Kyoto&lt;/a&gt; in a larger map&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5: French Bal dates:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;JULY: NEW DATE: not 3rd Sunday, but Sunday, 10th of July&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;AUGUST: NO BAL&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;SEPT: September 25th&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2877543602377640050?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2877543602377640050/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2877543602377640050' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2877543602377640050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2877543602377640050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/06/bal-this-sunday-plus-rehearsal-at-1200.html' title='Bal this SUNDAY plus rehearsal at 12:00'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4268483554143724008</id><published>2011-06-06T07:26:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T07:32:58.627+09:00</updated><title type='text'>great dance, upcoming july 3 new location</title><content type='html'>We had a wonderful contra yesterday in Fushimi. Lots of dancers, lots of fun! Thanks to everyone who participated. . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark your calendars: Next Fushimi Dance is on July 3rd. The time will be the same but there will be a NEW LOCATION, conveniently near kyoto station, to be announced. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(also Romain's french bal on the 19th, Contra Demonstration at the Fete de la musique, both at the French Institute)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, I really want to share a video I found on youtube. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6vVoiFT9c&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded#at=58"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6vVoiFT9c&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded#at=58&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; float:left; padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/CG6vVoiFT9c/0.jpg" height="300"  width="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CG6vVoiFT9c&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed height="300" width="300"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CG6vVoiFT9c&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's a very well done history of contra...I really wish I could translate this into japanese (any takers?) because the quality is excellent and I think it would help people understand the evolution of contra and contra music (and how we are part of it). The connection to slavery and african american history is fascinating. Watch the smiles on the faces of the hippie dancers. "the power to create communities, woven together by fiddle and bow"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's from a series on &lt;a href="http://contrausa.com/"&gt;http://contrausa.com/&lt;/a&gt;....and part of a longer video from &lt;a href="http://greatmeadowmusic.com/film.html"&gt;http://greatmeadowmusic.com/film.html&lt;/a&gt; (I am ordering it now, for viewing by all).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4268483554143724008?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4268483554143724008/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4268483554143724008' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4268483554143724008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4268483554143724008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/06/great-dance-upcoming-july-3-new.html' title='great dance, upcoming july 3 new location'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8174844639248221308</id><published>2011-06-02T16:26:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T16:26:45.171+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Re: contra kyoto in the dancegypsy</title><content type='html'>Well, the dance is alive, but not so sure it&amp;#39;s kicking.&lt;br&gt;Thanks for getting back to me. I really dont expect many people to come this way, but every so often I get an inquiry, and I thought I ought to make ourselves official, which of course means making it into the dance gypsy....I learned ot dance in Etna and Thetford and Lebanon, and am a many time survivor of the Brattleboro Dawn Dances, though before I came here I was in Portland (the yankee one) , NIce to hear from someone back home.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the address question is a bit tricky.&amp;#160;&lt;p&gt;There are really two dances, one at the Takano Church in kyoto, the other at the Coop in Tamababashi, but it called for historical reasons the Fushimi dance (these are two nearby suburbs to kyoto). Soon, one or the other may or may not be continuing or combining with the other, though the plan is to keep them alive.&lt;br&gt;The latter is technically a separate offshoot of our original Takano dance, run semi-independently, but anyone from the US is&amp;#160; probably better off going&amp;#160; through me,,.&lt;p&gt;I assume you want the address of the dances themselves? from a search point of view, the best keywords are contrakyoto, fushimi contra, takano contra, in kyoto or fushimi. tambabashi is unlikely to work.&lt;p&gt;I can also give you links to maps...all easy to get from my webpage &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;or directly &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Takano is on Kitaoji, just west of the Takano Bridge (near Quanat and Izumya department stores). The hall is in the rear of the church. To get directions via  Google Maps, click&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/MapTakano.html"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/MapTakano.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;The nearest train station is Ichijoji station. The nearest Kyoto City Bus stop is at the Takano Bashi Higashi Zume, on the #8-north(kita), #204, and #206 lines. The nearest Kyoto Bus stop is Takano Bashi Nishi Zume.&lt;br&gt;The address in japanese order is:&lt;br&gt;〒６０６-０８６６ zip code&lt;br&gt;京都市左京区 kyoto-shi sakyo-ku (city, ward)&lt;br&gt;下鴨東森ヶ前町７ &amp;#160;shimogamo higashimorigamaecho 7 (street)&lt;br&gt;TEL. ＆ FAX. 075-781-1252&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;For Fushimi:&lt;br&gt;The location is the Coop-Momoyama Meeting Center in Tamababashi. Go out the west exit of the Kintetsu Tambabashi Station, walk due west until you get to a T, turn south/left and go 4 blocks to the Coop. Go to the rear of the Coop, and go into the Coop building next to a cleaners and go the the second floor. It is directly across the elevator.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;To get directions via  Google Maps, click &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/MapFushimi.html"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/MapFushimi.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;I dont actually have a street address for them. &lt;p&gt;egads...let me know if you need it or anything else..&lt;p&gt;in any event, I think just having our name website and an email is probably sufficient given our location, not as remote as some places in vermont, but it&amp;#39;ll do. At least you can get here from there. :-)&lt;p&gt;next dance, this sunday. drop on by a spell....&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;________________________________&lt;br&gt;From: Greg Scragg &amp;lt;&lt;a href="mailto:greg@scragg.net"&gt;greg@scragg.net&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;br&gt;To: &lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2011 11:36 AM&lt;br&gt;Subject: contra kyoto in the dancegypsy&lt;p&gt;David:&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; While cleaning up entries in the Dance Gypsy, I discovered the incomplete entry for your dance. I assume you ran into the brick wall of a venue system that doesn&amp;#39;t do a decent job on venues outside of North America... sorry about that.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; But I was happy to see (1) a dance series in such an (seemingly) unlikely place, and (2)&amp;#160; a foreign attempt to use the Dance Gypsy. Only other dance currently listed in such a far away place is in Christchurch New Zealand.&lt;p&gt;Assuming your series is still alive and kicking, I can offer you two helpful ideas/suggestions:&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; (1) I can currently add the address for your series manually. If you send me the address, I&amp;#39;ll add it in (dances do not appear in most searches unless they have a location (most dancers search near their home or near where they will be)... and alas even when they do appear they don&amp;#39;t show even the country)&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; (2) This summer I will be extending the venue capability find locations worldwide. (Last month I added the ability to search based on any location worldwide. Hopefully worldwide venues will go as smoothly.&lt;br&gt;-- Greg Scragg&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; 802.257.4478&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8174844639248221308?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8174844639248221308/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8174844639248221308' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8174844639248221308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8174844639248221308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/06/re-contra-kyoto-in-dancegypsy.html' title='Re: contra kyoto in the dancegypsy'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8107956868837817925</id><published>2011-05-19T20:09:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T13:09:44.349+09:00</updated><title type='text'>May June News</title><content type='html'>(english below)&lt;br /&gt;コントラを愛する皆さん、ご無沙汰です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;デイヴィッドです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;いくつかお知らせあります。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.　5月（今週末）はコントラはありません！いろいろな準備があって忙しい。申し訳ありません。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.　6月にコントラのイベントは二つもあります！まず、6月5日（日）に何ヶ月間ぶりに伏見でコントラをやります！詳細は後ほど。多くの人をお待ちしています。そして、6月25日に日仏学館の「音楽祭」 (link: &lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/ja/events/event-detail/18"&gt;http://ifjk.jp/ja/events/event-detail/18&lt;/a&gt; ) にコントラを紹介します！  2時に 子供のためのワークショップをやって、3時ごろにまた一般向けのワークショップをやります。ロマンさんもフランスの踊りを5時ごろに紹介します。多くの人々にコントラを紹介するいいチャンスになりますが、皆さんのお手伝いが必要になります。詳しいことは4のところを見てください。(6月にいつもの高野コントラはありません)。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.　京都コントラは進化してゆく！アメリカからのコントラ・ミュージシャン、ピーター・ダマシェクがわれわれのチームに入りました！彼がサンディエゴなどアメリカのいろいろなところでコントラを演奏してきたすごい人です。ずっと京都に住んでいる人で、これからのイベントに出てくれるらしい。ピーターさんがパソコンがうまい人で、Facebookで「コントラ・イン・京都」のグループを作ってくれました。これから皆さんとも、そして新しい人とも簡単に連絡することができます。ぜひ参加してください( &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_124139417666779"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_124139417666779&lt;/a&gt; )。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.ボランティア募集！！！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;まず「音楽祭」のときに一緒にコントラの見本をやってくれる人々を必要としています。興味のある方早く私に連絡をください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;もう一つ、上に言ったように、高野と伏見のコントラが進化していく。一人、二人でやることよりコミューにティー（皆で）でやることになります。ひとりだけじゃとても力足りませんが、皆でがんばれば、もっとすごいイベントができると信じています。皆さんのエネルギーとアドヴァイスがほしいです。コントラが好きなかた、協力してください。  &lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;に（英語か日本語で）メールをおくってくれれば、一緒になにができることについて考えることができます。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;お待ちしています！ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. No dance this month&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. June Dances: Fushimi June 5th and   the French Institute's Fete de la Musique!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. NEW Facebook group via Peter Damaschek&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Volunteers needed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Bad news: NO regular Takano Dance in May (that is no dance this Saturday). Too busy reorganizing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Good news: Fushimi is BACK! Next dance is on June 5th...more info upcoming. Also, in June,  we have been invited to participate in the French Institute's Fete de la Musique, on June 25th (link: &lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/ja/events/event-detail/18"&gt;http://ifjk.jp/ja/events/event-detail/18&lt;/a&gt; ). This is a great opportunity to reach out to more people and get new dancers, but we do need some help with this project. See below.  There will be two contradance demonstrations, one for for kids and one for adults. Romain will also be holding a demo of French Dances. ( This event will take the place of the regular Takano Contra. ) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. GREAT News: Contrakyoto is starting a new collaboration with Peter Damaschek, a fine Contra Dance musician from San Diego and elsewhere in the US. He lives in Kyoto. He is going to be playing for upcoming dances US. His being here is an opportunity to do something here in Kyoto   and he has started a  FACEBOOK PAGE for contra in kyoto. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it is even easier to keep up and get involved with contra dance in Kyoto. Here is the link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_124139417666779"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_124139417666779&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.  We need volunteers for two reasons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, for the Fete de la Musique, we need some volunteers who would be willing to talk about why they like contradance and to help with the demonstration. Please email me ASAP if you are interested. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, the Takano Dance and Contrakyoto is changing. It is becoming a COMMUNITY-RUN project. We need a few more volunteers to help give it guidance and energy, so that it can continue to grow. If you care about the Takano Dance please become involved...send me an email at &lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;  and let's see how you can help  (english or japanese OK).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8107956868837817925?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8107956868837817925/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8107956868837817925' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8107956868837817925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8107956868837817925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-june-news.html' title='May June News'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2835333195024199488</id><published>2011-05-19T19:21:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-05-19T20:23:01.160+09:00</updated><title type='text'>ごぶさた</title><content type='html'>高野も伏見もごぶさたでさびしいですね&lt;br /&gt;ニュージーランドのビルさんのコントラダンスビデオがアップされてたので紹介します&lt;br /&gt;クライストチャーチ地震後の再開ダンスで、みなさんお元気で安心。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;３つ目のビデオはスクエアダンスのフォーメーションでコントラダンスをしているので、次回やってみたいですね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/9-TkNSQ8xhw"&gt;http://youtu.be/9-TkNSQ8xhw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/Ig8uVA6R4hY"&gt;http://youtu.be/Ig8uVA6R4hY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/CnXvIiDLYCQ"&gt;http://youtu.be/CnXvIiDLYCQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2835333195024199488?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2835333195024199488/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2835333195024199488' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2835333195024199488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2835333195024199488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html' title='ごぶさた'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8709325484160460760</id><published>2011-02-17T23:19:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T23:19:54.810+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><title type='text'>great contradance site and dance THIS SATURDAY</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 18px"&gt;[english below]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;この間伏見ダンスに来てくれたみなさん、どうもありがとう。初心者の方々がたくさんでしたね。ブルーアイズも初登場して踊りを盛りたてるすばらしい演奏をしてくれました。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;でいびっどがこんなビデオを見つけたので、みなさまもよければ見てください。コントラを真上から取った教則用の映像です。わたしはこういうのを見ても、あんまり理解の助けにはならないのですが、頭のつくりが違う人には、役立つかも・・・。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/xtlsymmetry/walpolereel.html" target="_new" title="symmetry in contra dance"&gt;こちら&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;それでは今週は高野ダンスです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;回すのと回されるのをひょいひょいできるようにイメージしていきましょ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;おもしろい踊りになるといいですね。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;ちなみに伏見ダンスはしばらくお休みに入るそうですよ。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスの夜 ご案内&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;おいしいご飯を持ち寄って&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;、みんなでコントラダンスの夜を楽しみませんか。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;日時: 2011年2月19日 (土)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;夜の６時から９時&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（初心者講習は５時半から６時）&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;場所:カトリック高野教会 第一伝道館&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;・食器なしでつまめる、おいしい食べ物や飲みもの&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　(できれば肉料理より野菜料理を。ゴミを出さないものだとありがたいです)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;・コップ&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;参加費:500円&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ホームページはこちら→&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/" target="_blank" title="contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;ゆきえ、でいびっどより&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;--------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, Thanks to everyone who came to the Fushimi Dance this month. A lot of beginners, but they stuck with it and we had some great dances. And a special thank you to "Blue Eyes" at their debut contra dance performance. We look forward to hearing them again!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, &lt;a href="http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/xtlsymmetry/walpolereel.html" target="_new" title="symmetry in contra dance"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt; is a very cool website about contradance and symmetry. The videos really let you see each figure and how they fit together to make a dance. I highly recommend it, especially anyone coming to our&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Monthly Takano Dance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS SATURDAY February 19&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from 5:30 to 9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Takano Catholic Church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yukie and david&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS Remember there will be no Fushimi Dance for the next few months, so this is your only chance to Dance the Winter Blues&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8709325484160460760?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8709325484160460760/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8709325484160460760' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8709325484160460760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8709325484160460760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-contradance-site-and-dance-this.html' title='great contradance site and dance THIS SATURDAY'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1357095166708037759</id><published>2011-01-08T05:08:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T05:08:41.754+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Updated images and audio from Christmas Dance and Caroling</title><content type='html'>For those of you who missed it, I have updated our &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/VideoColorbox.html" linkindex="22"&gt;video page&lt;/a&gt; to include updated pictures, video, and audio from our Christmas Dance and Christmas Caroling in front of City Hall. Check it out!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1357095166708037759?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1357095166708037759/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1357095166708037759' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1357095166708037759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1357095166708037759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2011/01/updated-images-and-audio-from-christmas.html' title='Updated images and audio from Christmas Dance and Caroling'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8590501801004661475</id><published>2010-12-21T19:59:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-21T20:03:24.049+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's Sing Christmas Carols Together  This Friday</title><content type='html'>(English Below)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;おどるみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;このあいだの高野コントラは特別にたのしかったね！&lt;br /&gt;スタープロムナードと、バタフライワールという新しい動きも&lt;br /&gt;登場しました。それとヘイとを合わせたダンスもできました。&lt;br /&gt;今までで一番きれいなダンスのひとつだったんじゃないかな。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;すこしずつですが、経験者の人が増えてきてくれているおかげ&lt;br /&gt;で、これからますますおもしろくてきれいな動きのダンスがで&lt;br /&gt;きるようになりますね♪&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;来てくれたみなさん、来てくれなかったみなさんも、いつもど&lt;br /&gt;うもありがとう。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"special guest" (@ 2 minutes)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUiBYMBuF4&lt;br /&gt;Jefferson and Liberty II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqG6_PTzpw&lt;br /&gt;・・・・・・・&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;さて！クリスマス直前のお知らせになってしまいましたが、で&lt;br /&gt;いびっどとフェリシティさん（という歌い手のお友達）が言い&lt;br /&gt;だしっぺになりまして、クリスマスキャロルを行います。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;クリスマスキャロルていうのは、クリスマスにちなんだ歌を歌&lt;br /&gt;いながら、町を練り歩くというものです。映画で見たことある&lt;br /&gt;かも？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;クリスマスはにぎやかなものである一方、心を静かにする聖な&lt;br /&gt;る夜でもあると思います。心を静めて、夜の空気を吸いながら&lt;br /&gt;、クリスマスの美しい歌を、みんなで歌いましょう。英語のも&lt;br /&gt;あるし、にほんごのも用意しています。こういった歌を予定し&lt;br /&gt;ていますので、予習できる方は聞いてね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOUTUBE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/ChristmasMusic.html"&gt;via contrakyoto hp (with lyrics)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/ChristmasMusic.html&lt;br /&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D3AB7F798751F13B"&gt;youtube (no lyrics)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;興味のある方は、だいたいの人数を把握したいので、遅くとも&lt;br /&gt;前日までに「きっと行くよ！」ってメールください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;クリスマス・キャロル&lt;br /&gt;12月24日（金曜日）イブの日　夜７時　京都市役所前に集合&lt;br /&gt;歌を集めた冊子をこちらで用意します。&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;いっぱいの人の声が集まったほうがすてきだと思うので、お友&lt;br /&gt;達やお知り合いにも、どんどんメールを転送してください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;よろしくお願いします★☆★&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------&lt;br /&gt;First of all I want to thank everyone who came to the Christmas Contra. It was great!&lt;br /&gt;I was really happy to dance some of the dances we danced, as I had never done them before and they looked beautiful. Great Dancing!!&lt;br /&gt;Check out this video/slideshow...at about 2 minutes in you can see our "special guest"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUiBYMBuF4&lt;br /&gt;Here we dance Jefferson and Liberty II&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqG6_PTzpw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, in collaboration with Felicity Greenland of Singing Around the Table, we are pulling together a Caroling night...&lt;br /&gt;KYOTO INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS SONGS &amp;amp; CAROLS!!!&lt;br /&gt;We are meeting at 7pm in front of Kyoto City Hall on 24th December. We will have lyrics for well known Christmas Songs &amp;amp; Carols that we can all sing together, in English and Japanese - if you have any songs you want to sing, please bring 20 copies of any songs you want to introduce (in any language).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to practice beforehand, here are some videos you can sing along with:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/ChristmasMusic.html"&gt;via contrakyoto hp (with lyrics)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/ChristmasMusic.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D3AB7F798751F13B"&gt;youtube (no lyrics)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;please email us if you have any questions and we look forward to seeing you there!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merry Christmas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="display: none; position: fixed; max-height: 16px; width: 450px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; 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font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2" face="Tahoma"&gt;----- Forwarded Message ----&lt;br&gt;From: Romain Jourdan &amp;lt;&lt;a class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:romain.tochigi@gmail.com" title="Linkification: mailto:romain.tochigi@gmail.com"&gt;romain.tochigi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;br&gt;Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 10:52:19 AM&lt;br&gt;Subject: プチ・バル：訂正&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;みなさん、今日は。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;この間のメールに間違いがありました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;時間は1時から（3時までではなく）4時までです！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;すみませんでした。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dear Friends, I made a mistake in my last email about the Dance Party.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The party will start at 1pm and finish at 4pm (not 3pm).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sorry about that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Romain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;" class="gmail_quote"&gt;---------- Forwarded message ----------&lt;br&gt;From: &lt;span class="gmail_sendername"&gt;Romain Jourdan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:romain.tochigi@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:romain.tochigi@gmail.com"&gt;romain.tochigi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;  Date: 2010/12/4&lt;br&gt;Subject: Petit Bal du 12 décembre / 12月12日のプチ・バル / French Folk Dance Event in Kyoto on December 12 !&lt;br&gt;To: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bonsoir chers amis,&lt;br&gt;Voici un petit message pour vous inviter au prochain petit bal de l'Institut franco-japonais du Kansai, qui aura lieu le dimanche 12 décembre.&lt;br&gt;  Le bal commence à 13h et finit à 16h.&lt;br&gt;L'entrée coûte seulement 500 yen.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Cette fois-ci, il n'y a pas de marché organisé le même jour, mais vous pouvez toujours utiliser le café ou apporter vos propres boissons.&lt;br&gt;Nos invités spéciaux de cette fois ci sont David et Yukie, qui nous enseignerons une contredanse, danse de groupe née entre l'Angleterre et la France et aujourd'hui très populaire aux Etats-Unis.&lt;br&gt;   Ils seront accompagnés de musiciens venus de Fushimi qui joueront pour nous plusieurs morceaux !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Comme Noël est proche, nous vous proposons de vous habiller aux couleurs de la neige, du père noël et des sapins, mais bien sûr ce n'est pas obligatoire.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;Nous vous attendons nombreux. N'hésitez pas à inviter vos amis.&lt;br clear="all"&gt;&lt;br&gt;-----&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;皆さん、今晩は！&lt;br&gt;12月12日の日仏学館のプチ・バルのお知らせです。&lt;br&gt;時間は午後1時から3時までで、入場料はたったの500円です。&lt;br&gt;当日は残念ながらマルシェ（市場）が行われていないが、カフェーを楽しんだり、また自分のお茶やお水を持って来たりしてもいいです。&lt;br&gt;   今回のスペシャル・ゲストはデイヴィッドとゆきえさんです。イギリスとフランスの間で生まれて、現在アメリカで大人気を持つ「コントラダンス」を教えてくれるそうです！&lt;br&gt;しかも、今回は伏見からミュージシャンも来てくれます！&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;クリスマスが近いので、良かったら雪だるま、サンタさんやクリスマスツリーの色の洋服を着てみてください！&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;では、お待ちしております。お友達にもぜひ声をかけてみてください。&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-----&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;br&gt;This is just a short message to tell you about the next Petit Bal (French Folk Dance Party) at the French Institute in Kyoto on December 12.&lt;br&gt;The ball will starts at 1pm and finish at 3pm.&lt;br&gt;This time we won't have the Marché (French market) but you can still enjoy the Café or bring your own beverages.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;Our special guests for December Ball are David and Yukie, who will teach us some Contradance, a dance born between England and France who is now very famous in the United States.&lt;br&gt;We will also have a couple of Musicians coming from Fushimi, who will play for us a couple of tunes.&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;Since Christmas is close, why don't we dress ourselves in the colours of the snow, Santa Claus and (or) the Christmas tree ?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We're waiting for you. Please tell your friends about the event too !&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#888888"&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;Romain&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://romainkyoto.blogspot.com"&gt;romainkyoto.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;" clear="all"&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;-- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Romain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://romainkyoto.blogspot.com"&gt;romainkyoto.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;        &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6325924912516824888?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/6325924912516824888/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=6325924912516824888' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6325924912516824888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6325924912516824888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html' title='プチ・バル：訂正'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-6577201460259957531</id><published>2010-11-23T15:23:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-11-23T15:23:08.487+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='youtube'/><title type='text'>Fun Dance Videos</title><content type='html'>おどるみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;おひさしぶりです。いかがお過ごしですか。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;雨なのでYOU TUBEで遊んでいたら、いろいろいいビデオが見つかりました。せっかくなので、コントラダンス関係のビデオを今日は２つ紹介します。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;★マサチューセッツ州コンコードでの大晦日コントラ&lt;br /&gt;New Year's Eve Contra-dance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iBt7ZtqJ01s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iBt7ZtqJ01s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「コントラはものすごく汗かく！！」と、はじめて踊った人ほど思うようですが、実際はこんなにゆったり、リラックスして踊れます、という例。スウィングが、２人がひとつの輪のようになって回っているのをぜひ見てみてください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ただ歩いているだけなのに、草のようにひょうひょうとしていたり、ジプシーみたいにどこかひょうきんさや妖艶さを匂わせていたり・・・。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;★ニューハンプシャーのピーターボローでの踊り&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpjJVVkJe3A?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpjJVVkJe3A?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;これにもいい踊り手がいっぱい映っているので紹介します。&lt;br /&gt;このダンスではとくに男のひとたちもトワル（くるくる回る、回せられる）をすばらしく楽しんでいるのがすきだなと思いました。楽に回せ、回されるようになると、わたしたちのコントラもきっとぐんと楽しさがUPするはず。途中から、バンドの遊びでジャズの曲になりますが、それもたのしい。みんなが音楽そのものになってるみたいです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;携帯でこのメールを受け取ってるとそのままでは見れないかもしれないけど、パソコンを開けたときにぜひ見てみてください。ああ、踊りたい！！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ビデオの感想もお待ちしています♪&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it is rainy today so it's been the best day for browsing videos at YOUTUBE. I found lots of cool contradance videos from America so let me introduce some of my favorites to you today. David is, yes, curled up on a big bean bag and taking a nap. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Year's Eve Contra-dance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iBt7ZtqJ01s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iBt7ZtqJ01s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Some people told me that contra was very hard exercise for them. This is a good example that shows it doesn't have to be... The dancers are all dancing in a very relaxed mood, even when they are swinging. Lots of great dancers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Snow Ball, Peterborough NH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpjJVVkJe3A?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpjJVVkJe3A?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this video some gents are enjoying twirling and that is very amusing to watch. Also music changes to jazz from the middle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking forward to seeing you at our December dances, December 4th and 18th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6577201460259957531?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/6577201460259957531/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=6577201460259957531' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6577201460259957531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6577201460259957531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/11/fun-dance-videos.html' title='Fun Dance Videos'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2195583895241024203</id><published>2010-10-25T23:13:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-25T23:20:34.955+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='singing around the table'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tomoko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felicity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='akazawa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gnome'/><title type='text'>Singing event at gnome</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is news of Felicity's sing song next Sunday... ・゜☆・゜・ 。 ・゜・☆。・゜。・。。・&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Singing Around the Table Oct 31 2010　from 19:30～&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Free - All welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traditional songs from Ireland and Britain and USA in English, and some Japanese songs too. Song sheet provided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our usual fiddle player Tomoko Saito is in Ireland (we hope you are having a great time Tomoko!) so Atsushi Akazawa has kindly agreed to join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Felicity and Tasuya san.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;テーブルで歌おう！！日時：2010.10.31（日）　夜19:30～&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;～無料ワークショップ～&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今回のファシリテーターは　Felicity, 白坂さん、赤沢さん、 (ともこさんはアイルランドへ旅行です。）アイルランド・スコットランドなどのケルト地方やイギリス、US地方の美しい伝統歌と日本の歌をみんなで歌います。美味しく飲んだり食べたりしながら、ファシリテーターの指導で楽しく歌ってみましょう♪&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;場所：As usual it's at Gnome, just South of Nijo Kawaramachi (West side): &lt;a href="http://gnomepub.exblog.jp/i4/" target="gnome" title="gnome"&gt;http://gnomepub.exblog.jp/i4/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some videos of SInging Around the Table from Youtube taken by Michael of Deep Kyoto and Yoshizo san, thanks guys!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suil a Ruin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object xmlns="" width="100%" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SjnKlrgxboQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode"/&gt;&lt;embed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SjnKlrgxboQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" width="100%" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shiretoko Ryojou&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object xmlns="" width="100%" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h0yA2S-VKK8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode"/&gt;&lt;embed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h0yA2S-VKK8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" width="100%" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do You Love an Apple&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object xmlns="" width="100%" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yt8pMAG9Ttg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode"/&gt;&lt;embed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yt8pMAG9Ttg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" width="100%" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instrumental&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object xmlns="" width="100%" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9O9zSt2e9TU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode"/&gt;&lt;embed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9O9zSt2e9TU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" width="100%" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;JJ Dancing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object xmlns="" width="100%" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bPkPwquP-Kg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"/&gt;&lt;param name="wmode"/&gt;&lt;embed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bPkPwquP-Kg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" width="100%" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hope to see you soon!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Felicity: &lt;a href="http://lookingathouses.blogspot.com/" target="felicity" title="Felicity"&gt;http://lookingathouses.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomoko: &lt;a href="http://yaplog.jp/chicola/" title="tomoko"&gt;http://yaplog.jp/chicola/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akazawa: &lt;a href="http://www.beatshop.co.jp/si-folk/prof.html" title="azakawa"&gt;http://www.beatshop.co.jp/si-folk/prof.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2195583895241024203?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2195583895241024203/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2195583895241024203' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2195583895241024203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2195583895241024203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/10/singing-event-at-gnome.html' title='Singing event at gnome'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3277245373993113462</id><published>2010-10-23T16:52:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-23T16:52:57.842+09:00</updated><title type='text'>来週金曜日はみんなでゲーム！game night！！</title><content type='html'>(english below)&lt;p&gt;でーびっどが言いだしっぺの、ゲームする日がまたあります！３回目ですが、これ、予想以上に楽しいです。&lt;br&gt;おすすめなので、その夜特にすることがないひと、おすすめです。&lt;br&gt;２回目はとくにゴキブリポーカーというゲームで盛り上がりました。&lt;br&gt;わたし、意外とおばあちゃんになったらマージャンに打ち込むタイプかも。笑&lt;p&gt;一階のカフェ、トリペルにて。&lt;br&gt;地図 &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/maps/9DAb"&gt;http://goo.gl/maps/9DAb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/"&gt;http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;＊＊＊＊&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ゲームの夜がやってきました。&lt;p&gt;今回は&lt;br&gt;１０月２９日【金】夜２０時から&lt;p&gt;カタンをはじめ、トランプ、マージャン、チェス、以後、将棋もあり。&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;参加費無料・ワンドリンクオーダー制となっております。&lt;p&gt;もし好きなゲームがあったらもってきてください。&lt;p&gt;ルールがわかる人が1人はいるので、ルール知らなくても大丈夫。&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ーーーーーーーーーーー&lt;br&gt;Yes, it&amp;#39;s back: GAME NIGHT&lt;p&gt;Last week we had an impromptu game night (sorry, it happened too suddenly for an announcement), and we had a great time, and really want to do it again,&lt;br&gt;so we are having our&lt;br&gt;*** 3rd GAME NIGHT at TRIPEL ****&lt;br&gt;(just below chocochoco) &lt;a href="http://goo.gl/maps/9DAb"&gt;http://goo.gl/maps/9DAb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Next Friday, October 29 from 8PM&lt;p&gt;Come play all kinds of board, card, and other games. Learn how to play go, shogi (japanese chess), karuta, poker, and other games. Bring your favorite game and teach others how to play it. All are welcome.&lt;br&gt;Admission is free with any order.&lt;br&gt;more info at&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/"&gt;http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;or email us...&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;david and yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3277245373993113462?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3277245373993113462/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=3277245373993113462' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3277245373993113462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3277245373993113462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/10/game-night.html' title='来週金曜日はみんなでゲーム！game night！！'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8401582310737361800</id><published>2010-10-18T20:55:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-18T20:56:00.840+09:00</updated><title type='text'>1１月はさやかちゃんの展覧会＋高野ダンスはキャンセル</title><content type='html'>先日のダンスに来てくれたみなさん、来たかったけど来れなかったみなさん、どうもありがとう！&lt;br&gt;小さい集まりでしたが、いつもと違うことがたくさん起こったもりだくさんのダンスでした。&lt;p&gt;１１月は、７日に伏見のイベント、１４日に京都芸術センターでコントラのワークショップがあります。&lt;br&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.kac.or.jp/bi/465"&gt;http://www.kac.or.jp/bi/465&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;それなので、いつもの高野ダンス（第３土曜）は、キャンセルすることにしました。&lt;br&gt;またあらためてご連絡します。&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;さやかちゃんから、みなさんにお手紙です。&lt;p&gt;＊＊＊＊&lt;p&gt;食欲の秋にぴったりの、ちょっと欲張りな展覧会をいたします♪&lt;p&gt;「えん」←築200年の古民家、「コペッツ」←ニューオープンのお店&lt;br&gt;Old &amp;amp; New、和と洋を、両方とも楽しむ。ちょっと贅沢な１ヶ月です！&lt;br&gt;行楽シーズン・お出かけ日和に、宇治で京都を満喫、いかがでしょ？&lt;br&gt;皆様、お誘い合わせの上、お越し下さい！　お待ちしています♪♪&lt;p&gt;HP：&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://saya-h.sakura.ne.jp/uji/"&gt;http://saya-h.sakura.ne.jp/uji/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;はしづめさやか&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;「えん」&lt;br&gt;京都府宇治市広野町東裏56&lt;br&gt;（新田郵便局南隣）駐車場3台有&lt;br&gt;TEL 0774-41-7188&lt;br&gt;1日20食限定の創作ランチは要予約。&lt;br&gt;14:00以降は喫茶のみ。&lt;br&gt;（展覧会のみのお越しも可能です）&lt;br&gt;日時&lt;br&gt;2010年11月1日（月）〜30日（火）&lt;br&gt;11:30〜16:30&lt;br&gt;はしづめさやか在店予定／定休日&lt;p&gt;丘の上にある小さなパン屋さん&lt;br&gt;Boulangerie Kopec「コペッツ」&lt;br&gt;京都府宇治市神明宮北22-41&lt;br&gt;神明41 1F&lt;br&gt;TEL 0774-22-1010&lt;br&gt;焼きたてのパンがいっぱい♪&lt;br&gt;イートインもＯＫ！&lt;br&gt;（展覧会のみのお越しも可能です）&lt;p&gt;＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾＾&lt;br&gt;For those of you who missed last Saturday&amp;#39;s dance here are 2 important announcements from that dance:&lt;p&gt;During the month of November Sayaka-chan will be having a simultaneous exhibition of illustrations at two places: Cafe/Gallery &amp;quot;En&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;the Boulangerie Kopec&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;Information is available at&lt;br&gt;HP：&lt;a href="http://saya-h.sakura.ne.jp/uji/"&gt;http://saya-h.sakura.ne.jp/uji/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As to Contra in November, there are some very very special things happening, so please mark your calendars:&lt;p&gt;As we have announced in prior emails, the Fushimi  Dance is on the 7th. We really want to get a nice turnout for this dance, and it includes a Special Concert and Performance. On top of that it will be FREE, so this is a great event to come to.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/114/"&gt;http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/114/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, we are honored to have been invited to be participate in a preliminary &amp;quot;Dance For All&amp;quot; workshop on Saturday November 14th at the Kyoto Art Center, from 2 to 5pm.&lt;br&gt;The link is &lt;a href="http://www.kac.or.jp/bi/465"&gt;http://www.kac.or.jp/bi/465&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(More info forthcoming but quickly: &amp;quot;Dance for All&amp;quot; is an event happening next January. Professional choreographers will work with &amp;quot;ordinary&amp;quot; (nonprofessional) people to create an original work to be performed on a real stage in Kyoto. Anyone is welcome to participate, and the event on the 14th is a good way to find out more. Though the final event does not involve contra dancing, we have been invited to help the participants &amp;quot;get the dancing spirit&amp;quot; in preparation for the real event.)&lt;p&gt;As a result, we will *** NOT *** be holding a 3rd Saturday Takano Dance. So, the next Takano Dance will be...around Christmas!!! Ho ho ho!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8401582310737361800?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8401582310737361800/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8401582310737361800' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8401582310737361800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8401582310737361800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/10/1.html' title='1１月はさやかちゃんの展覧会＋高野ダンスはキャンセル'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7270201458324281498</id><published>2010-10-15T23:21:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T23:27:17.535+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Concert and Dance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><title type='text'>あした！！Tomorrow!!!</title><content type='html'>みなさま&lt;p&gt;気がつけば明日（今日）は、高野のコントラダンスです！&lt;br /&gt;いちおう毎月第３土曜日とはいえ、連絡がおそくなっちゃいました。ゴメンなさい。。&lt;p&gt;きっと明日も楽しいよ。&lt;br /&gt;ぜひぜひ来てね。&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスの夜 ご案内&lt;p&gt;銀杏や金木犀や。おいしいご飯を持ち寄って&lt;br /&gt;、みんなでコントラダンスの夜を楽しみませんか。&lt;p&gt;日時: ２０１０年１０月１６日 (土)&lt;br /&gt;夜の６時から９時&lt;br /&gt;（初心者講習は５時半から６時）&lt;p&gt;場所:カトリック高野教会 第一伝道館&lt;p&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・食器なしでつまめる、おいしい食べ物や飲みもの&lt;br /&gt;　(できれば肉料理より野菜料理を。ゴミを出さないものだとありがたいです)&lt;br /&gt;・コップ&lt;p&gt;参加費:500円&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;ホームページは&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;こちら&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;ゆきえ、でいびっどより&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TOMORROW: Takano Dance&lt;br /&gt;Usual Time and place. Map and other info&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOVEMBER ...,&lt;br /&gt;The November Fushimi dance is a very special concert and dance, with many interesting live performances. Info on the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/114/"&gt;Fushimi blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;date：　Sunday 11/7　2:00 to 5:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;place： the fushimi ward office　Fushimi seishonen katudo center&lt;br /&gt;MAP:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E5%8C%BA%E7%B7%8F%E5%90%88%E5%BA%81%E8%88%8E&amp;amp;sll=34.936221,135.761189&amp;amp;sspn=0.016746,0.02605&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E5%8C%BA%E7%B7%8F%E5%90%88%E5%BA%81%E8%88%8E&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=34.938683,135.761189&amp;amp;spn=0.016746,0.02605&amp;amp;z=15&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt; via google maps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Things we&amp;#39;ve done recently, and more upcoming events:&lt;p&gt;** Recently we had great time listening to Banchan and Marichan&amp;#39;s concert at Woodnote! I&amp;#39;ve never seen so many people in tiny little Woodnote! But it made for a cozy atmosphere, and since she was practically sitting on top of me, I met Felicity Greenland. It turns out she hosts a free informal monthly singing session at Gnome, which I thought would be very interesting for people in our group, so I want to tell you about it.&lt;br /&gt;She said her purpose is to introduce japanese people to &amp;quot;the songs everybody knows&amp;quot; from Japan and the English speaking world.&lt;br /&gt;The atmosphere is very relaxed and easy going. Anybody can come, you don&amp;#39;t have to know any songs, be a musician or have any experience singing, as they provide all the song sheets. I enjoyed meeting her and look forward to singing with them.&lt;p&gt;** I am not sure of the next meeting time, though it is usually on the last Sunday of the month, from 7.30-10.30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lookingathouses.blogspot.com/2009/06/sing-around-table-2.html"&gt;lookingathouses blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at gnome&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gnomepub.exblog.jp/"&gt;http://gnomepub.exblog.jp/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAP: &lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?client=safari&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=irish+pub+gnome&amp;amp;gl=jp&amp;amp;hq=irish+pub+gnome&amp;amp;hnear=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%BA%9C%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82&amp;amp;ei=p9G5S-zXFYGOkQXT9tHICQ&amp;amp;ved=0CAcQnwIwAA"&gt;map to gnome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** Romain&amp;#39;s French Bal was also a great success. I am sure there will be video from this session, but video from the first is available at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://romainkyoto.blogspot.com/2010/10/le-petit-bal-de-linstitut.html"&gt;romain's blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Next event is here:&lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/ja/events/event-detail/65"&gt;French Institute website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7270201458324281498?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7270201458324281498/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7270201458324281498' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7270201458324281498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7270201458324281498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/10/tomorrow.html' title='あした！！Tomorrow!!!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1804944936709312986</id><published>2010-09-30T10:56:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T23:28:18.194+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>オトノリひろば1 Dance this Sunday!</title><content type='html'>[english below]&lt;p&gt;今週末は伏見でダンスがあります！&lt;br&gt;たのしみたのしみ。&lt;br&gt;石黒家に３男坊も誕生したお祝いのダンスですね！&lt;br&gt;（なんとでいびっどと同じ日に生まれたそうです）&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;〜オトノリひろば17〜&lt;br&gt;日時　１０月３日（日）14：00〜17：00&lt;br&gt;場所　コープ桃山集会室（京都市伏見区竹中町609）&lt;br&gt;(近鉄・京阪丹波橋駅より、徒歩５分)&lt;br&gt;(コープのクリーニング屋さんの横を入って、エレベーターで２階へ)&lt;br&gt;地図　&lt;a href="http://mobile.its-mo.com/p1?125760500-488756210-6"&gt;http://mobile.its-mo.com/p1?125760500-488756210-6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;会費　500円(中学生以下無料)&lt;br&gt;持ち物（持ってこれる人だけ）　&lt;br&gt;　お菓子・飲み物（できるだけゴミが出ないようなもの）&lt;br&gt;　汗をかいた時用のタオルや着替え&lt;br&gt;　（今回は仮面は無し）　&lt;p&gt;---------&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is just a quick reminder that there is a dance in Fushimi this Sunday, from 2 to 5,&lt;br&gt;at the usual place. Come join us!&lt;br&gt;Map and so on at &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also,&lt;p&gt;CONGRATULATIONS&lt;br&gt;to Ishigurosan and Asahi on their son being born...&lt;br&gt;on my birthday!&lt;br&gt;Highly Auspicious, indeed. Ishiguro David?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1804944936709312986?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1804944936709312986/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1804944936709312986' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1804944936709312986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1804944936709312986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/09/1-dance-this-sunday.html' title='オトノリひろば1 Dance this Sunday!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1495047854913783445</id><published>2010-09-26T16:04:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T23:28:18.195+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>Upcoming events september october 2010</title><content type='html'>[english below]&lt;br /&gt;この間のダンスに来てくれた人たち、ほんとにどうもありがとう！おかげでぼくのバースデイはとてもとても特別な時間になりました。ダンスもたのしかったし、ハッピーバースデーの歌を３ヶ国語で歌ってもらえたし、ピザも大きくっておいしかったね！あらためて、来てくれたみんな、どうもありがとう。&lt;br /&gt;以下はアナウンスタイムでのお知らせです。&lt;br /&gt;①ロマンのフレンチフォークダンス・バル&lt;br /&gt;９月２６日（日）です。詳しくは以下のリンクでチェックしてください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150209195012772"&gt;フェイスブックのページ&lt;/a&gt;　&lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/fr/about/access"&gt;地図&lt;/a&gt;　&lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/fr/events/event-detail/55"&gt;詳細&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;②われらがまりちゃんとばんちゃんの初ライブ！１０月１０日（日）、４時半から。アイルランドの歌うたいも来るみたい。ゆきえ、誕生日プレゼント受付中です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/place?cid=4971955052804603136&amp;amp;q=woodnote+kyoto&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=jp"&gt;ウッドノートの場所&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;③伏見を愛でる、伏見のための伏見によるお祭り「いいな伏見」１１月７日（日）２時から５時&lt;br /&gt;後半では１００人コントラをめざしています。みんな来てね。&lt;br /&gt;場所　：　伏見区総合庁舎　伏見青少年活動センター・スポーツルーム(丹波橋駅より徒歩7分)&lt;br /&gt;④&lt;span id="goog_204091567"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Boscoさんのお兄さ&lt;span id="goog_204091568"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;んがはじめた居酒屋はたぶんこのあたり　てぃんがーら（沖縄のことばで「天の川」）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;amp;source=s_d&amp;amp;saddr=35.041232,135.791981&amp;amp;daddr=&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;mra=mift&amp;amp;mrsp=0&amp;amp;sz=18&amp;amp;sll=35.041267,135.791788&amp;amp;sspn=0.002091,0.003256&amp;amp;ttype=dep&amp;amp;date=09%2F24%2F10&amp;amp;time=9:58am&amp;amp;noexp=0&amp;amp;noal=0&amp;amp;sort=time&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;start=0"&gt;地図&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;それじゃあみんなに今日もおもしろい考えが降ってきますように！&lt;br /&gt;で、ゆ&lt;br /&gt;-------------&lt;br /&gt;I want to give a really warm thank you to everyone who came out for the last dance and helped make my birthday really special! It was a fun dance, and I really enjoyed singing "Happy Birthday" in 3 languages. The pizza was awesome, wasn't it! Thank you everyone!&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;Romain's French Folk Ball is this weekend, on Sunday the 26th. Here is a link to his Facebook page, or you can email him if you have questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150209195012772"&gt;facebook page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/fr/about/access"&gt;map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ifjk.jp/fr/events/event-detail/55"&gt;event details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;Banchan and Marichan's concert is at Woodnote, on the 10th of October. This is Yukie's birthday! Yay!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/place?cid=4971955052804603136&amp;amp;q=woodnote+kyoto&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;gl=jp"&gt;map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;The Fushimi dance group is holding a HUGE CONTRA.&lt;br /&gt;The goal is to get 100 people, so please come and bring friends. There will also be other music and performances, and we will send more information soon. But for now,&lt;br /&gt;date：　Sunday 11/7　2:00 to 5:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;place： the fushimi ward office　Fushimi seishonen katudo center&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E5%8C%BA%E7%B7%8F%E5%90%88%E5%BA%81%E8%88%8E&amp;amp;sll=34.936221,135.761189&amp;amp;sspn=0.016746,0.02605&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E5%8C%BA%E7%B7%8F%E5%90%88%E5%BA%81%E8%88%8E&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=34.938683,135.761189&amp;amp;spn=0.016746,0.02605&amp;amp;z=15&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;Google Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/114/"&gt;event info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;br /&gt;Bosco's brother's izakaya is roughly around here, near the corner of shirakawa and kitaoji:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;amp;source=s_d&amp;amp;saddr=35.041232,135.791981&amp;amp;daddr=&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;mra=mift&amp;amp;mrsp=0&amp;amp;sz=18&amp;amp;sll=35.041267,135.791788&amp;amp;sspn=0.002091,0.003256&amp;amp;ttype=dep&amp;amp;date=09%2F24%2F10&amp;amp;time=9:58am&amp;amp;noexp=0&amp;amp;noal=0&amp;amp;sort=time&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;start=0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;****&lt;br /&gt;David and Yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1495047854913783445?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1495047854913783445/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1495047854913783445' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1495047854913783445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1495047854913783445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/09/upcoming-events-september-october-2010.html' title='Upcoming events september october 2010'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3197088443210107484</id><published>2010-08-18T22:07:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-08-18T22:09:00.620+09:00</updated><title type='text'>SUNDAY is GAME NIGHT!</title><content type='html'>(english below)&lt;p&gt;でーびっどが言いだしっぺの、ゲームする日があるので、お知らせします。一階のカフェ、トリペルにて。&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/"&gt;http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;＊＊＊＊&lt;p&gt;ボードゲームの夜&lt;br&gt;みなさま&lt;p&gt;たまにはみんなでゲムゲム。&lt;p&gt;ということで、ボードゲームの夜がやってきました。&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;8月22日(日）夜18時から22時まで。&lt;p&gt;カタンをはじめ、トランプ、マージャン、チェス、以後、将棋もあり。&lt;p&gt;ボードゲームじゃないのもある？&lt;p&gt;何でもござれです。&lt;p&gt;参加費無料・ワンドリンクオーダー制となっております。&lt;p&gt;もし好きなボードゲームがあったらもってきてください。&lt;p&gt;ルールがわかる人が1人はいるので、ルール知らなくても大丈夫。&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;日曜夜はトリペルでゲムゲム。&lt;p&gt;ヨネダ&lt;p&gt;ーーーーーーーーーーー&lt;br&gt;HEY Fun lovers:&lt;p&gt;1st ever GAME NIGHT at TRIPEL (just below our house)&lt;br&gt;This Sunday from 6 to 10 PM&lt;p&gt;Come play all kinds of board, card, and other games. Learn how to play go, shogi (japanese chess), karuta, poker, and other games. Bring your favorite game and teach others how to play it. All are welcome.&lt;br&gt;Admission is free with any order.&lt;br&gt;more info at&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/"&gt;http://tripel.blog2.fc2.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;or email us...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:contrakyoto@gmail.com"&gt;contrakyoto@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;david and yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3197088443210107484?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3197088443210107484/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=3197088443210107484' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3197088443210107484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3197088443210107484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/08/sunday-is-game-night.html' title='SUNDAY is GAME NIGHT!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4977877323812443956</id><published>2010-07-28T09:32:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T23:28:18.196+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>fushimi dance is the 1st! Basketball!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;[english below]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;みなさま、こんにちわ。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;先日送ったメールで、英語で書かれた伏見ダンスの日にちが間違っていたようです。&lt;br /&gt;１日（日）２時からですので、お間違いなく。&lt;p&gt;それとは別件で、ぜひお知らせしたいことがあります。&lt;br /&gt;わたしのように、体育の授業で、バスケットボールのときは水を得た魚のように、走り回っていたあなた。&lt;br /&gt;バスケ部だったあなた。&lt;br /&gt;バスケは好きだけど、運動がにがてで、別の部活にしたひと。&lt;br /&gt;スラムダンクが好きな人。&lt;p&gt;いっしょにバスケしよう。&lt;p&gt;日にちは、８月２日（月）５時くらいから、京都産業大学の向かいの公園で。&lt;br /&gt;たぶん、４時半ころ、堀川北大路で待ち合わせすると思います。&lt;p&gt;興味のあるひとは、連絡ください。&lt;br /&gt;今のところ、わたしと、でびと、しちさんとぴゆさん（ともだち）の４人しかいないので、さみしいし休憩もろくに取れないので、人数がほしいです。特に、わたしと同類の、あまりすばやくない女の子、来て下さい。&lt;p&gt;ゆきえ、でび&lt;p&gt;Two quick updates. FIRST, I made a mistake on a mistake. The fushimi dance is on the 1st of August (not 8th). It is still the FIRST SUNDAY, as it ever was.&lt;p&gt;SECOND, on the very next day, Monday, the 2nd of August, is another event we are putting together with some friends, this time for people who are interested in playing basketball. So far we have met just one time, but it was enough to have a few great rounds of two on two, and to give ourself a name, the KAMIGAMO CUTLETS (BASKETBALL CLUB). The reason behind the name is that we meet along the Kamigamo River, far north along the river, next to Kyoto Sangyo Daigaku  (Kyoto Industrial College). This is a little out of the way, but it seems to be the closest public court in kyoto that is available. We are still looking for a better location, if anyone has any suggestions. In the meantime, here is a link to a map:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=35.060493,135.746384&amp;amp;spn=0.066884,0.104198&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;msid=100573668859309930266.00048c670bda228be1b26"&gt;http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=35.060493,135.746384&amp;amp;spn=0.066884,0.104198&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;msid=100573668859309930266.00048c670bda228be1b26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Game time is around 5:00, but some of us are meeting at horikawa and kitaoji  (see map) at 4:30 to bike up together.&lt;br /&gt;All levels and ages are welcome: this is a noncompetitive and lighthearted yet invigorating and delightful game&lt;br /&gt;for people who want to have fun while breaking a light sweat! Afterwards some of us may get together for a bit of supper.&lt;p&gt;If you are interested, show up! or email us if you have any questions...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4977877323812443956?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4977877323812443956/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4977877323812443956' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4977877323812443956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4977877323812443956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/07/fushimi-dance-is-1st-basketball.html' title='fushimi dance is the 1st! Basketball!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-9063949498842370539</id><published>2010-07-14T21:18:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T16:21:08.330+09:00</updated><title type='text'>July and August 2010 Lydia!</title><content type='html'>(English Below)&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;踊るみなさま&lt;p&gt;先の日曜、日仏会館でフランスのお祭りのイベントがあり、そこで行われたロマンのフォークダンスに私とデイビッドも参加してきました。おもしろい衣装を来た人たちもいて、とても楽しかったです。ビデオができたら、ぜひ見てくださいね。&lt;p&gt;そして、あの、リディアが、京都にやってきます！！♪&lt;p&gt;リディアは、デイビッドの大のなかよしの、当時１１歳だった女の子です。今はもう1６、１７歳くらいになってるのですが、高校生のプログラムで、東京へ来るのです。デイビッドにも会いたいし、歴史好きだし、というわけで、京都にも遊びに来ます。ちょうど伏見ダンスがあるときに重なってるので、伏見ダンスにも連れて行く予定です。リディアは、子供のころからずっとコントラダンスにも来ているので、みなさなもお楽しみに。ぜひぜひ仲良くしてあげてください。&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;はい、そして、今週末は高野でコントラがあります。&lt;br /&gt;7月17日（土）いつもどおり初心者講習5時半から、ダンス6時から、フィンガーフードでのポットラック（持ち寄りごはん）があります。&lt;p&gt;まいにちまいにち雨なので、その日も雨かもしれないので、なんらかの仮装をしてきた人はチャージフリー！一人くらいはしてきてほしい！&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;もし、偏西風のいたずらで最近頻繁に起こるスコール的大雨のばあい、当日になって中止することも考えられます。なので、当日来る前にはメールチェックをお願いします。直接「するかしないか」の電話連絡がほしい人は、その旨メールで教えてください。&lt;p&gt;それでは土曜日に！！！！！！&lt;p&gt;ゆ、で&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------&lt;p&gt;We had a great time recently at Romain's Bastille Day presentation at the &lt;br /&gt;French Japanese Institute. It was a lot of fun with many people in costume &lt;br /&gt;and high spirits, so people had a great time. There will be videos &lt;br /&gt;available soon, so check the (newly revamped) website.&lt;p&gt;We also have a piece of very exciting news. My very very special young &lt;br /&gt;friend Lydia is coming to Japan in August! I am so excited -- I have been &lt;br /&gt;waiting two years and it is finally happening! Lydia, who is coming to &lt;br /&gt;Japan on a high school trip,  was one of my dearest dance kid-pals in the &lt;br /&gt;US, and I am really hoping I can introduce her to the contradance &lt;br /&gt;community here. She is only going to be here for a short time, but luckily &lt;br /&gt;I  will be able to bring her to the Fushimi Contra on the 7th[update/correction...the fushimi contra is on the 1st....we will be have a picnic on the kamogamo on the 7th for lydia]. I really  &lt;br /&gt;hope as many people as possible can be there, cause I know she is very &lt;br /&gt;interested in meeting japanese contra dancers!&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, this Saturday is the next Takano Dance. It may be rainy, &lt;br /&gt;so as an incentive we will offer free admission to anyone who comes in &lt;br /&gt;costume!  As usual, we will have a fingerfood break (pot-luck, &lt;br /&gt;cups/utensils, but no plates necessary). We will be focusing on having FUN &lt;br /&gt;while dancing -- twirls, eye contact, and interacting with your &lt;br /&gt;partners...so come ready to have a good time!&lt;p&gt;The weather report says there is only a 40% chance of showers,. We don't &lt;br /&gt;expect we will cancel, but if the weather turns very bad, we might send &lt;br /&gt;out a cancellation email. Please look for it before you head out.  If you &lt;br /&gt;want us to call you directly, or otherwise notify you, let us know, or &lt;br /&gt;feel free to call us on saturday at 070 6475 5855 .&lt;p&gt;David and Yukie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-9063949498842370539?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/9063949498842370539/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=9063949498842370539' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/9063949498842370539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/9063949498842370539'/><link 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/&gt;(近鉄・京阪丹波橋駅より、徒歩５分)&lt;br /&gt;地図　http://mobile.its-mo.com/p1?125760500-488756210-6&lt;br /&gt;会費　500円(中学生以下無料)&lt;br /&gt;持ち物（持ってこれる人だけ）　&lt;br /&gt;食べ物・お菓子・飲み物（できるだけゴミが出ないようなもの）&lt;br /&gt;汗をかいた時用のタオルや着替え　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;お問い合わせ、参加連絡などは下記へ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;伏見コントラダンスコミュニティー&lt;br /&gt;マネージャー　wishigrow&lt;br /&gt;mail &lt;a href="mailto:contrafushimi@gmail.com"&gt;contrafushimi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HP &lt;a href="http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/"&gt;http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8203311068476968025?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8203311068476968025/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-5475346074841336538</id><published>2010-06-27T03:51:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-07-02T04:08:55.174+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wataru'/><title type='text'>わたるさんより　お返事やお知らせ reply from wataru-san</title><content type='html'>わあ　行きたいな！！！&lt;br /&gt;ひさしぶりに　みなさんにもお会いしたいし、クァドリーリャも踊りたいし.....&lt;br /&gt;。&lt;br /&gt;この日は　民博でもトランシルヴァニアの踊りをやっているし.....&lt;br /&gt;いっぱい　重なってしまった。&lt;br /&gt;でも　すみません。　前に約束してしまっていることがあり&lt;br /&gt;（知人から　京都の　石川九楊の書史講義のチケットを送って頂いていて）&lt;br /&gt;それに　行かなければならないので....。&lt;br /&gt;みなさんに　よろしくお伝えください。&lt;br /&gt;私は　昨日　嶋本昭三＆ＡＵ展に　コラージュの3点の搬入を済ませました。&lt;br /&gt;でも　できれば　もうひとつ　別の作品も　作ろうとしています。&lt;br /&gt;30日までに　間に合わせられるか　微妙なのですが.....。&lt;br /&gt;これは　しかも　ちょっと　ブラジルにも　関係がある作品なので...&lt;br /&gt;とは言っても　素材に　使わせていただくだけなのですが....。.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7月の作品展もう一度お知らせします。&lt;br /&gt;ご住所を教えて頂ければ　チラシもお送りします。&lt;br /&gt;７月１日（木）～３１日（土）１２：００～２０：００　嶋本昭三＆ＡＵ展&lt;br /&gt;神戸旧生糸検査場　（三宮駅よりフラワーロードを南へ２０分神戸税関近く）　&lt;br /&gt;入場無料&lt;br /&gt;ここに　コラージュの１ｍ×２ｍの作品を３点　出展します。&lt;br /&gt;神戸で遠いですがもしお近くへいらっしゃることがあれば見ていただけるとうれ&lt;br /&gt;しいです。&lt;br /&gt;ここでも　７月１１日（日）　１４：００～１５：００　コンテンポラリーダン&lt;br /&gt;スのパフォーマンスもします。&lt;br /&gt;また　3日（日）の夜７時からは京都でも　舞台に出ます。&lt;br /&gt;７月３日（土）　１９：００～　京都烏丸近くの京都芸術センター　フリースペ&lt;br /&gt;ースにて&lt;br /&gt;Ａｙｄａｎ　Ｔｕｒｋｅｒ　（トルコのダンサー）　のコンテンポラリーダンス&lt;br /&gt;・パフォーマンス　"Ｔｏｇｅｔｈｅｒ"　料金　１０００円&lt;br /&gt;私もワークショップ受講者の一人として舞台に出ます。&lt;br /&gt;わたる&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-5475346074841336538?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/5475346074841336538/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7104918745620735253</id><published>2010-06-26T15:44:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T15:46:34.858+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sayaka'/><title type='text'>さやかちゃんのHP　 Check Out Sayaka's Web Page!</title><content type='html'>はじづめさやかちゃんのHPが出来たそうですのでお知らせします。&lt;br /&gt;個展は明日からですね。&lt;br /&gt;みなさん、さりげなーく、コントラの宣伝もしてきてください。さりげなく。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://saya-h.sakura.ne.jp/"&gt;さやかちゃんのHP&lt;/a&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;踊るみなさま、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;こんにちは！　贅沢な生演奏でダンスのできる幸せをかみしめつつ・・・&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスで、アイリッシュ音楽にもなじみのある皆様に、こんな展覧会のお知らせです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;『はしづめさやか　扉絵展』&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;アイルランド人作家ジョイスの研究書の、扉絵を担当しました。&lt;br /&gt;本の出版を記念して、原画展を開催いたします。&lt;br /&gt;京都の小さなアイルランド空間へ、お越しください♪&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;詳細は&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kyotolinden"&gt;こちら&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;和洋スタイルの民家風会場です。&lt;br /&gt;アットホーム！　お気軽に、遊びにお立ち寄りください☆&lt;br /&gt;（ちなみに、会場では、アイルランド音楽があふれている予定です！）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;はしづめさやか&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7104918745620735253?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7104918745620735253/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7104918745620735253' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7104918745620735253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7104918745620735253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/06/hp-check-out-sayakas-web-page.html' title='さやかちゃんのHP　 Check Out Sayaka&apos;s Web Page!'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1175777547891139186</id><published>2010-06-26T15:41:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T15:43:50.611+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Festival Junino'/><title type='text'>Brazilian June Festival Great People, Food, and Dance!</title><content type='html'>[English Below]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;最近来てくださっているセリアさんからみなさんにお知らせです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;アナウンスタイムでおっしゃられていたブラジルのお祭りは、今週の日曜日に、神戸であります。おいしいブラジルの食べものや、ゲーム、「クァドリーリャ」という踊りもあるそうです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスのルーツの1つに、「カドリール」というダンスがあるのですが、それが、フランスの宮廷→ポルトガルの宮廷→ブラジルの民衆へ、と伝わって、「クァドリーリャ」になりました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;セリアさんや、柔道もうすぐ黒帯のセリアさんの息子さん、ロマン、でいびっどは行く予定ですので、興味あるひと、いっしょに行きましょう。わたし幸江までご連絡ください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;詳細は以下。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;第12回　フェスタ　ジュニナ　　ブラジルの6月祭&lt;br /&gt;6月27日（日）　11時から16時&lt;br /&gt;場所：〒650-0003　兵庫県神戸市中央区山本通 3-19-8&lt;br /&gt;神戸市立海外移住と文化の交流センター 3階&lt;br /&gt;Tel/Fax: 078-222－5350　 email:cbk.bras.01@tiara.ocn.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HPはこちら　http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~cbk.bras/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FROM CELIA:&lt;br /&gt;hi, friends, as I promised, here is the address of the Festa junina, in Kobe, on June, 27, from 11 to 16h, is CBK &lt;br /&gt;KOBE-SHI CHUO-KU YAMAMOTO DORI 3-19-8 &lt;br /&gt;E-mail cbk.bras.01@tiara.ocn.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;homepage: http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~cbk.bras/&lt;br /&gt;If there'se somebody going, please, let me know until Saturday afternoon, OK?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1175777547891139186?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1175777547891139186/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1175777547891139186' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1175777547891139186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1175777547891139186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/06/brazilian-june-festival-great-people.html' title='Brazilian June Festival Great People, Food, and Dance!'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4250819171361543652</id><published>2010-06-19T13:05:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T08:22:40.643+09:00</updated><title type='text'>The War of the Quadrilles</title><content type='html'>Originally there were two dances, both of which were called contredances or quadrilles. French contradances, also known as quadrilles, are the ancestors of the modern square dance, and the english contradance are the familiar longways set dance that is now called Contradance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They did not always co-exist peacefully:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from &lt;a href="http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-9/9-3/dare-2-b-square.html"&gt;http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-9/9-3/dare-2-b-square.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The War of the Quadrilles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another chapter in the history of the contras vs. squares rivalry occurred&lt;br /&gt;two hundred years ago, in 1804, in New Orleans. It has been described by dance historian, Maureen Needham Costonis, as "The War of the Quadrilles." In December 1803, New Orleans became United States territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Prior to that time, the favored dances among the city's predominately French-speaking Creoles were French Quadrilles, referred to at that time as "French contredanses." French Quadrilles had not yet come to the United States, where "English contredanses" [contra dances] were still in fashion. On January 8, 1804, only a few weeks after the transfer to the Americans, a quarrel between the Creoles and the Americans broke out at a public ball, over which type of dance should be done. According to one account of the incident: "Two quadrilles, one French [a square], the other English [a contra], were formed at once. An American, taking exception, brandished his stick over a fiddler, and there was at once, great turmoil..." Eventually, after much persuasion, "...the French quadrille [square dance] was allowed to go on, but the American interrupted it on its second time around with an English quadrille [contra dance], taking his position on the floor; some one cried out: "If the women have a drop of French blood in their veins, they will not give in!'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The contra-square controversy continued and erupted into a brawl at&lt;br /&gt;another public dance later that month. As reported by the New-York Herald on March 10, 1804, the dancing began with cotillions [squares], followed by a country dance [contra] for twelve couples.  The musicians were instructed to end the contra after all of the couples had been active, but six additional American couples joined the end of the line and demanded that the music continue. In the ensuing ruckus, fiddles got broken, swords were drawn, and dancers were arrested. In an effort to resolve the issue and let the dances continue, the New Orleans City Council stepped in, prohibiting citizens from carrying arms to the dances, assigning policemen to keep order, and legislating a rotation of dances: two "French contredanses[squares]," followed by one "English contredanse [contra]" limited to twelve couples, and then a waltz, to appease those of Spanish descent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following the War of 1812, with the exception of New England, which&lt;br /&gt;remained pro-English, Americans completely abandoned the tradition of&lt;br /&gt;English contra dances in favor of the French quadrilles. Quadrilles were&lt;br /&gt;promoted as being "new" and "fashionable" and contras were seen as&lt;br /&gt;"rustic" and "old-fashioned." While remnants of some of the formal&lt;br /&gt;quadrille figures remain in New England squares as well as western&lt;br /&gt;squares, they had less influence in the South and mid-West, where visiting couple squares became the popular form.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4250819171361543652?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4250819171361543652/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4250819171361543652' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4250819171361543652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4250819171361543652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/06/war-of-quadrilles.html' title='The War of the Quadrilles'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8047711683586855883</id><published>2010-03-10T12:44:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T06:33:19.712+09:00</updated><title type='text'>from Romain French Dance Saturday.</title><content type='html'>.&lt;br /&gt;皆さん、&lt;br /&gt;こんばんは。 &lt;p&gt;ロマンです。 &lt;br /&gt;次のフォークダンスは今週の土曜日（13日）です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;時間はいつものように10時30から12時30までです。&lt;br /&gt;場所も相変わらずに日仏学館の一階です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;デモンストレーションまでは後二回しかないので、本格的な練習会したいと思います。&lt;br /&gt;今までやってきた踊りからいくつかを選んで、集中的に練習したいと思います。&lt;br /&gt;真剣に参加していただければ嬉しいです。&lt;br /&gt;残り時間がすくないので、頑張りましょう！ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;よろしくお願いします。 &lt;br /&gt;お待ちしております。 &lt;br /&gt;ロマン &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----- &lt;br /&gt;Bonsoir,&lt;br /&gt;C'est Romain.&lt;br /&gt;Le prochain atelier de danses trad' aura lieu samedi prochain (le 13).&lt;br /&gt;Les horaires sont les mêmes que d'habitude, à savoir de 10h30 à 12h30.&lt;br /&gt;Le lieu est comme d'habitude, la grande salle du rez-de-chaussée de l'Institut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme il ne reste plus que deux séances avant la représentation du 4 avril, j'aimerai que nous nous entrainions sérieusement.&lt;br /&gt;Nous allons choisir quelques danses parmi celles vues jusqu'à présent et nous allons les étudier à fond.&lt;br /&gt;Je compte sur votre dynamisme et sur votre motivation. &lt;br /&gt;A samedi, &lt;br /&gt;Romain &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://chanoaji.blogs.com/"&gt;chanoaji.blogs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8047711683586855883?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8047711683586855883/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8047711683586855883' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8047711683586855883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8047711683586855883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-romain-french-dance-saturday.html' title='from Romain French Dance Saturday.'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-5410090262711900342</id><published>2010-02-28T18:35:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T06:33:52.656+09:00</updated><title type='text'>伏見３月６日（土）17：00～20：00</title><content type='html'>コントラダンスの案内を送付します。&lt;br /&gt;前回は２０人ほどで楽しく開催できましたが、&lt;br /&gt;今回も同様に開催したいです。&lt;br /&gt;前回は男性比率がやや高めでしたので、改善したいです。&lt;br /&gt;よろしくお願いします。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; ～第１０回伏見コントラダンスの夜～&lt;br /&gt;日時　３月６日（土）17：00～20：00&lt;br /&gt;場所　コープ桃山集会室（京都市伏見区竹中町609）&lt;br /&gt;(近鉄・京阪丹波橋駅より、徒歩５分)&lt;br /&gt;地図　http://mobile.its-mo.com/p1?125760500-488756210-6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;※会場まで行けるか不安だという方は16時50分に&lt;br /&gt;丹波橋駅南改札西口階段下に集合して下さい。&lt;br /&gt;そこから石黒がご案内致します。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;会費　500円&lt;br /&gt;持ち物（持ってこれる人だけ）　&lt;br /&gt;　得意なお料理一品や、お菓子&lt;br /&gt;　飲み物&lt;br /&gt;　Myコップ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18：30頃・・・持ち寄り夕食TIME&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;お問い合わせ、参加連絡などは下記へ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;伏見コントラダンスコミュニティー&lt;br /&gt;マネージャー　wishigrow&lt;br /&gt;mail contrafushimi@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;HP http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-5410090262711900342?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/5410090262711900342/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=5410090262711900342' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/5410090262711900342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/5410090262711900342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/02/17002000.html' title='伏見３月６日（土）17：00～20：00'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2509488107695398205</id><published>2010-02-19T17:55:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T02:58:34.548+09:00</updated><title type='text'>dance</title><content type='html'>[English at bottom]&lt;br /&gt;こんにちわ★★明日土曜日は高野でコントラの夜があります！みんなで集まって&lt;br /&gt;わいわいがやがやしましょう～。&lt;p&gt;明日は新しい人たちもいつもより多いかも。&lt;br /&gt;そして、明日はスーパーマリオこと古谷さんがバルカンの踊りを教えてくれます&lt;br /&gt;！古谷さんの軽快なスウィングがどう培われたのか、秘密がわかるかも。。。？&lt;p&gt;それでは、明日たのしみにしてまーす♪♪♪&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスの夜 ご案内 &lt;p&gt;。おいしいご飯を持ち寄って&lt;br /&gt;、みんなでコントラダンスの夜を楽しみませんか。  &lt;p&gt;日時: ２０１０年２月２０日 (土)&lt;br /&gt;夜の６時から９時&lt;br /&gt;（初心者講習５時半から６時）&lt;p&gt;場所:カトリック高野教会 第一伝道館 &lt;p&gt; 持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・食器なしで食べられるおいしいもの（おにぎりとかサンドイッチとか飲み物と&lt;br /&gt;か何でも適当にどうぞ）&lt;br /&gt;・マグカップ&lt;p&gt;参加費:500円 &lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt; ホームページはこちら→&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ、でびどより&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------- ENGLISH ----------&lt;p&gt;A quick reminder that there is a contradance tommorrow at the Takano &lt;br /&gt;Church. I have scouted out for some new dances especially for first time dancers, &lt;br /&gt;and we will have a special Balkan Folk Dance from Furutani-san. Hope to see &lt;br /&gt;you there&lt;p&gt;Takano Catholic Church&lt;br /&gt;5:30-9:00&lt;br /&gt;light finger food at 7:00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt; for full info.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2509488107695398205?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2509488107695398205/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2509488107695398205' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2509488107695398205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2509488107695398205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/02/dance.html' title='dance'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-9117010298541106112</id><published>2010-01-27T21:35:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T06:36:00.953+09:00</updated><title type='text'>2/6 伏見コントラダンスの案内</title><content type='html'>みなさま、こんばんは。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;伏見コントラダンスの案内です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;お知らせした通り2月6日に開催いたします。&lt;br /&gt;いつもの会場です。&lt;br /&gt;来たことない方もいるかもしれませんが、&lt;br /&gt;丹波橋駅はアクセスいいですよ。&lt;br /&gt;京都駅からなら近鉄で１０分&lt;br /&gt;出町柳からなら京阪で１５分&lt;br /&gt;烏丸御池からでも、竹田で乗り換えて２０分くらいで、&lt;br /&gt;着いちゃいます。&lt;br /&gt;大阪の梅田からだと、１時間はかかるけどねぇ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;そんな伏見コントラダンス、&lt;br /&gt;今回は伏見オリジナル（たぶん）のダンスも&lt;br /&gt;披露したいと思います。&lt;br /&gt;都合がよければ、下記にご参加ください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;〜第９回伏見コントラダンスの夜〜&lt;br /&gt;日時　２月６日（土）18：00〜21：00&lt;br /&gt;場所　呉竹文化センター　リハーサル室&lt;br /&gt;(近鉄・京阪丹波橋駅、南改札西口出てすぐ)&lt;br /&gt;会費　500円&lt;br /&gt;持ち物（持ってこれる人だけ）　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;軽食（お皿やお箸がいらない食べ物）&lt;br /&gt;菓子&lt;br /&gt;※臭いの強いものはダメでーす。&lt;br /&gt;飲み物&lt;br /&gt;Myコップ&lt;p&gt;19：30頃・・・持ち寄り軽食TIME&lt;p&gt;お問い合わせ、参加連絡などは下記へ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;伏見コントラダンスコミュニティー&lt;br /&gt;マネージャー　wishigrow&lt;br /&gt;mail &lt;a href="mailto:contrafushimi@gmail.com"&gt;contrafushimi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HP &lt;a href="http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/"&gt;http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-9117010298541106112?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/9117010298541106112/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=9117010298541106112' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/9117010298541106112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/9117010298541106112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/01/26.html' title='2/6 伏見コントラダンスの案内'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1032038004289923771</id><published>2010-01-27T12:00:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T12:00:54.509+09:00</updated><title type='text'>わたるさんよりお知らせ</title><content type='html'>お話していたコンテンポラリーダンスの舞台は次のものです。　この�に、KDE（京都ダンスエクスチェンジ）のメンバーとして出ます。どうぞよろしく。&lt;p&gt;『源流を 着る 舞う 奏でる』&lt;br&gt;マニッシュ＆ダンディ〜京絞り布で作った上着を身に纏った、コンテンポラリー&lt;br&gt;ダンスと虚無僧尺八のコラボレーション〜&lt;p&gt;�パフォーマンス「源流を 着る 舞う 奏でる」:作舞・出演/ＫＥＤ、作曲・演奏/ &lt;br&gt;中村明一、布提供/寺田豊(京絞り)、上着製作/伴野久美子(現代美術)&lt;p&gt;�トーク「密息と身体＆着物という文化」:乾光男(ＫＥＤ)中村明一(尺八)寺田豊(&lt;br&gt;京絞り) お相手/矢飼満実子&lt;p&gt;�コンサート:中村明一の「音色」と「間」〜虚無僧尺八から現代音楽まで〜&lt;p&gt;《神戸公演》&lt;br&gt;プログラム���&lt;br&gt;2010年2月27日(土)&lt;br&gt;15時30分〜17時&lt;br&gt;(開場は30分前 全席自由)終演後ジーベックカフェにて、懇親パーティを行います&lt;br&gt;。&lt;br&gt;於:神戸ポートアイランドジーベックホール&lt;br&gt;(三宮よりポートライナー北埠頭行き、中埠頭駅下車すぐ前)&lt;br&gt;TEL078-303-5600&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xebec.co.jp"&gt;http://www.xebec.co.jp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;前売り3500円、当日4000円チケット取扱・お問い合わせ、ワークショップ＆レク&lt;br&gt;チャー予約 &lt;p&gt;TEL&amp;amp;FAX078-822-2545(伴野)&lt;p&gt;パーティ参加費1500円(越智守の創作料理と�フロイデ提供のワイン)&lt;p&gt;ワークショップ＆レクチャー(全て参加無料、要公演チケット。於:ジーベック２&lt;br&gt;Ｆ)&lt;br&gt;ワークショップ&lt;br&gt;◆コンテンポラリーダンス/講師:植木明日香・乾光男&lt;br&gt;簡単なストレッチと運動でからだの隅々を目覚めさせる。そのカラダを使って即&lt;br&gt;興の遊びまで発展させます。&lt;br&gt;11時〜12時 定員10人&lt;p&gt;◆〜密息(みっそく)〜日本の伝統的呼吸法/講師:中村明一&lt;br&gt;密息は日本人の身体文化に根ざした深く静かな呼吸法。この呼吸法を身につける&lt;br&gt;ことで解放され五感が豊かになります。息の技術を実践的に学びます。&lt;br&gt;12時〜13時 定員20人&lt;p&gt;レクチャー&lt;br&gt;◆京絞り/講師:寺田豊&lt;br&gt;絞り染めの歴史や、先人達が獲得した「ものづくりへのこだわり」を具体的に紹&lt;br&gt;介します。&lt;br&gt;13時〜14時 定員20人&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1032038004289923771?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1032038004289923771/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1032038004289923771' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1032038004289923771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1032038004289923771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_26.html' title='わたるさんよりお知らせ'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1192819577228681727</id><published>2010-01-26T13:12:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T13:12:21.136+09:00</updated><title type='text'>ロマンよりお知らせ</title><content type='html'>こんにちは、フランス人のロマンです。&lt;br&gt;只今一緒にフランスのフォークダンスぞを踊りたい人を募集しています。&lt;br&gt;京都にある関西日仏学館に一月から三月いっぱいまで広い場所を貸してもらっています。&lt;br&gt;学館が4月4日に行う「フランス語の日」のパーティーにフランスの踊りを15分ぐらい紹介するという条件でその場所をただでパーティーの日まで自由に使えるようにしてくれました。せっかくなので、フランスのフォークダンスに関心を持ってくれる皆さんに声をかけてみます。&lt;br&gt;一緒に練習しませんか？踊りの経験がなくても大歓迎します！踊りを隔週の土曜日にゆっくり教えたいと思います。また、演奏してくれる人がいたら、楽譜とCDを配ります。&lt;br&gt;詳しい事はとりあえず1月30日（土）10時から日仏学館のサロン（三階）で説明します。&lt;br&gt;ぜひ、一緒に踊ってください！&lt;br&gt;来てくれるなら、早めに連絡してほしいです。&lt;br&gt;また、フランスの踊りの事もっと知りたい人はぜひ私のHPを見てください：&lt;a href="http://chanoaji.blogs.com"&gt;chanoaji.blogs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;フランスフォークダンス教室はまた4月から正式的に始まります。&lt;p&gt;---------&lt;p&gt;Hi everybody ! I&amp;#39;m looking for dancers and musicians who want to try French traditional dances !&lt;br&gt;The French Institute in Kyoto kindly let me use a room to practice folk dances if I show some short demo of folk dances during the Francophony Day on April the 4th.&lt;br&gt;That&amp;#39;s why I&amp;#39;m looking for people who would like to participate to free folk dances sessions from January to March for April&amp;#39;s party demonstration.&lt;br&gt;I think it&amp;#39;s a very good occasion to discover French folk dances, in a friendly mood.&lt;br&gt;Beginners are welcome. We&amp;#39;ll learn the dances together. If you want to play music, I have scores and cds to share.&lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;ll give more details during the first session, January the 30rd (saturday), from 10 to 12 AM, in the Salon, 3rd floor of the French Institute.&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;re planning to practice every two weeks.&lt;br&gt;Please send me a message if you&amp;#39;re planning to come next saturday.&lt;br&gt;If you want to know more about French dances, please have a look at my website : &lt;a href="http://chanaoji.blogs.com"&gt;chanaoji.blogs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Regular Folk Dance Class will start again in April.&lt;p&gt;------&lt;p&gt;Bonjour ! Je cherche des danseurs et des musiciens pour un atelier de danses traditionnelles fran&amp;#231;aises.&lt;br&gt;L&amp;#39;Institut franco-japonais  me pr&amp;#234;te gentiment une salle pour animer un atelier de danse de janvier &amp;#224; mars, qui s&amp;#39;ach&amp;#232;vera par une petite d&amp;#233;monstration le 4 avril, lors de la f&amp;#234;te de la francophonie, &amp;#224; l&amp;#39;Institut.&lt;br&gt;Je recherche donc des personnes int&amp;#233;ress&amp;#233;es pour participer aux s&amp;#233;ances de r&amp;#233;p&amp;#233;tition, gratuites et ouvertes &amp;#224; tous, en vue du spectacle du 4.&lt;br&gt;Il n&amp;#39;est pas n&amp;#233;cessaire de conna&amp;#238;tre ces danses. Nous les verrons ensemble pendant les s&amp;#233;ances. Pour la musique, j&amp;#39;ai les partitions et les cds.&lt;br&gt;Le mieux serait de venir &amp;#224; la premi&amp;#232;re rencontre, le samedi 30 janvier, de 10h &amp;#224; 12h, au salon de l&amp;#39;Institut (troisi&amp;#232;me &amp;#233;tage).&lt;br&gt;Les r&amp;#233;p&amp;#233;titions auront lieu toutes les deux semaines.&lt;br&gt;Merci de m&amp;#39;envoyer un message si vous avez l&amp;#39;intention de venir samedi prochain.&lt;br&gt;Vous pouvez jeter un oeil &amp;#224; mon site pour en savoir plus sur les danses trad&amp;#39; fran&amp;#231;aises : &lt;a href="http://chanaoji.blogs.com"&gt;chanaoji.blogs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;L&amp;#39;atelier officiel de danses traditionnelles de l&amp;#39;Institut reprendra en avril.&lt;p&gt;A samedi !&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;Romain&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://chanoaji.blogs.com"&gt;chanoaji.blogs.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1192819577228681727?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1192819577228681727/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1192819577228681727' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1192819577228681727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1192819577228681727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html' title='ロマンよりお知らせ'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7972932851089625863</id><published>2010-01-17T14:55:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T14:56:18.526+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Announcements from yesterday's dance, and thank-you's</title><content type='html'>First a big thank you to everyone who turned out for last night&amp;#39;s dance.  &lt;br&gt;It was one of our best dances so far, and a big thank you goes to Romain  &lt;br&gt;for helping us &amp;quot;show eels to young maidens (la la la la)&amp;quot;  and to  &lt;br&gt;Shimizu-san for helping us &amp;quot;get back home&amp;quot;, and Marichan and  &amp;quot;jitsu ni  &lt;br&gt;honBanchan&amp;quot; for the wonderful music.&lt;p&gt;Last night, Romain announced he is giving a free class in French Folk  &lt;br&gt;Dance at the French-Japanese Institute. If you are interested, his email  &lt;br&gt;is &lt;a href="mailto:romain.tochigi@gmail.com"&gt;romain.tochigi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;. His next class is on Saturday, the 30th of  &lt;br&gt;January. The time is tentatively 10:00 am.&lt;p&gt;If you would like to learn more about square dancing, Shimizu-san&amp;#39;s email  &lt;br&gt;is: &lt;a href="mailto:emerodo_sdc@k.vodafone.ne.jp"&gt;emerodo_sdc@k.vodafone.ne.jp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upcoming Contras are:&lt;p&gt;Sat. 2/6/10 Fushimi (Tambabashi) 6-9 PM&lt;br&gt;at Kuretake Bunka Center * in Tambabashi *&lt;br&gt;Just west of Keihan Tambabashi Station&lt;br&gt;and a little further west of Kintetsu Tanbabshi Station&lt;br&gt;(use the gate next to the udon shop in the station, and it&amp;#39;s across the  &lt;br&gt;street)&lt;p&gt;Sat. 2/20/10 Takano 5:30-9 PM&lt;br&gt;at the Takano Church&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://holyring.jp/ir/takano/dmap.html"&gt;http://holyring.jp/ir/takano/dmap.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See you there!...david and yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7972932851089625863?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7972932851089625863/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7972932851089625863' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7972932851089625863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7972932851089625863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/01/announcements-from-yesterdays-dance-and.html' title='Announcements from yesterday&apos;s dance, and thank-you&apos;s'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8758994829367462847</id><published>2010-01-14T12:09:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T12:10:30.656+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Contra Dance this Saturday, New Format, CDSS</title><content type='html'>Happy 2010. I hope no one ate too much mochi during oshogatsu, but if you did, here is a chance to burn off some of those extra calories:&lt;p&gt;Contra Dance this Saturday&lt;br&gt;January 16, 2010&lt;br&gt;start 5:30 to 9:00&lt;br&gt;Snack break 7:00-7:15&lt;p&gt;The important thing about this dance is that, after getting some thoughtful feedback at the last dance, we have decided to try a new  format that we hope will make this a better experience for everyone.&lt;p&gt;The first half of the dance we are going to spend more time working on individual figures and making them easier to understand. We recognize that they seem complicated at first. It can take some time for them to become second nature, and especially to fit them all together while the music is playing and people are moving and there are distractions and so on. So we are going to change our teaching style, move much more slowly in the first half, and take the time make everyone feel they have it. We hope especially that this will  help beginners have an easy time fitting in.&lt;p&gt;Another suggestion was to make the break a little shorter, more like a tea time. We are going to try this. At the same time, we would like to encourage people to consider bringing nutritious snacks...less chips and candy. Finger foods like onigiri or sandwiches and homemade snacks are great, or whatever other delicious and creative ideas people have. Many people are health conscious, and we want to make contra a healthy experience. Also, we hope this will reduce trash at the end of the night, and mean that people don&amp;#39;t have to bring as much utensils and cookware.&lt;br&gt;,&lt;br&gt;Anther piece of interesting news, (thanks to Maureen!) is that we were recently contacted by Jennifer Beer, the Vice-President of the Contry Dance and Song Society (CDSS &lt;a href="http://www.cdss.org/"&gt;http://www.cdss.org/&lt;/a&gt;) in the US. , which is one of the oldest and most famous dance (including contra) societies in the US. She told us that about 20 years ago she taught a bilingual contradance for about a year at the British Sports Club in Kobe. I guess she beat us to Japan! In fact, in November she was in Kansai teaching English Country Dance. In her email she said that, as VP of the CDSS  she has &amp;quot;vowed to build more connections between CDSS and Japan.&amp;quot; So our little group is getting noticed in the contra dance world! Great work everyone! If anyone has any ideas how we can connect with them, let&amp;#39;s talk!&lt;p&gt;Lastly, in case people don&amp;#39;t know, I have recently updated the website, including fixing the NHK video, adding early Takano videos, and many Youtube videos. Please give us any feedback or let us know of any problems with the site. If anyone would like to write a small blurb about who they are and why they like dance, we would like to add more to the Who We Are and What People Say pages.&lt;p&gt;We look forward to seeing you on Saturday. David and Yukie&lt;p&gt;----&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8758994829367462847?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8758994829367462847/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8758994829367462847' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8758994829367462847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8758994829367462847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2010/01/contra-dance-this-saturday-new-format.html' title='Contra Dance this Saturday, New Format, CDSS'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1240122196318122879</id><published>2009-12-22T15:29:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T12:24:49.566+09:00</updated><title type='text'>ありがとうございました☆Thanks</title><content type='html'>クリスマスコントラにきてくださったみなさん、どうもありがとうございました。師走のあわただしい時期にもかかわらず、たくさんの人が来てくれました。&lt;p&gt;フランスのコントラダンスを教えてくれたロマン、いつもいつも楽しい音楽を奏でてくれるばんちゃん、まりちゃん、どうもありがとう。フランスのコントラダンスは、簡単だったし、ステップやプロムナードの仕方が違ったりして、おもしろかったですね～。&lt;p&gt;それと、フィードバックをしてくれたみなさんもありがとうございます。来年の高野ダンスは、今までとはいろいろやり方を変えながら、よりよい方法を常に探していきたいと思います。特に、今のままでは初めて来てくれた人たちがうまくスタートを切れないときがあるようなので、以前から声が出ていたようにひとつのダンスにもっと時間をかけたり、ゆっくりダンスを覚えたり、また持ち寄り夕ご飯をやめて、軽食＋ティータイムくらいのかんたんなものにすることも考えています。&lt;br /&gt;これからも何か気がついた点などありましたら、ぜひぜひ教えてくださいね。&lt;p&gt;また、HP上のNHKの映像、見れるように直したと思います。確認してくださったらありがたいです。&lt;p&gt;それでは、メリークリスマス＆よいお年を～～～♪♪♪&lt;p&gt;ゆきえ、でいびっど&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;--------------------&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to everyone who came out for the Christmas Contra at Takano. I especially want to thank Romain for teaching us a french circle dance, and Banchan and Marichan for their patience and wonderful music. The dance was a lot of fun, and everyone was laughing so much....&lt;p&gt;I also want to thank people who gave us feedback about what new things we could do in the new year. Some of the ideas we are thinking about include &lt;br /&gt;spending more time explaining the dances and the figures, especially in the beginning, so that people can understand the dances better, and making the break shorter, like a tea and snack time. It seems that the current time is good for most people, though some people also suggested doing the dance at the Art Center downtown, as this might be more convenient, and we are going to look into that.&lt;p&gt;By the by, I have fixed the problem with the NHK video on the website. If anyone has a problem viewing it, please let me know. &lt;p&gt;If you have any thoughts about the above or any other ideas, please let us know. We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and happy New Year.&lt;p&gt;Cheers...David and Yukie&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1240122196318122879?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1240122196318122879/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1240122196318122879' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1240122196318122879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1240122196318122879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/12/thanks.html' title='ありがとうございました☆Thanks'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-673717428256282493</id><published>2009-12-18T15:50:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-12-18T15:53:35.977+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Dance Tomorrow</title><content type='html'>Quick reminder that there is a dance tomorrow in Takano. &lt;br&gt;It is a Christmas dance, and our sources at the North Pole tell us that there may be a surprise visitor in red...If you are coming, we thought it would be fun if people could also wear red to suit the occasion. &lt;br&gt;In any event, we will do some dancing, have a Christmas feast, and Romain is going to teach us another folk dance from France, so it will be a lot of fun. See you there...david&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-673717428256282493?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/673717428256282493/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=673717428256282493' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/673717428256282493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/673717428256282493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/12/dance-tomorrow.html' title='Dance Tomorrow'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8996250812796777352</id><published>2009-12-05T12:39:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-12-18T15:53:35.991+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dance Notes'/><title type='text'>Dances and Music from recent dances</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;September 9, 2009:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dances:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ted's mixer&lt;br /&gt;La Bastringue&lt;br /&gt;Demon's rant&lt;br /&gt;Scatter Dance&lt;br /&gt;First Night Contra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Music:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Sporting Molloy/The Old Bustle&lt;br /&gt;2. jigs: The Kilmovee/The Mist Covers the Mountain/The Rambling Pitchfork&lt;br /&gt;3.reels:Man of the House/The Templehouse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NHK Dance/Fushimi Concert and Dance :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dances:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Family Contra&lt;br /&gt;NHK: The Uncertain MIddle&lt;br /&gt;NHK: The Grand Finale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Music:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tunes by Armelle&lt;br /&gt;Wake the Neighbors #2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November 19:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dances:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retro Reel&lt;br /&gt;Skating By&lt;br /&gt;Avery One Dance&lt;br /&gt;Blackbird Pie&lt;br /&gt;Unruly Reunion&lt;br /&gt;Salmonella Evening&lt;br /&gt;The Whole Enchilada&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8996250812796777352?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8996250812796777352/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8996250812796777352' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8996250812796777352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8996250812796777352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/12/dances-and-music-from-recent-dances.html' title='Dances and Music from recent dances'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2950090595380084185</id><published>2009-11-20T14:20:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T14:22:20.385+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>23 日（月、祝）大阪コントライベント</title><content type='html'>連絡がおそくなりましたが、２３日（月）にはじめて大阪でコントラダンスをすることになりました。ココルームというNGOが企画するイベントです。&lt;br /&gt;祝日にまだ予定がないという人、大阪に散歩がてらいらしてくださいね。　＾　　＾&lt;br /&gt;11月23日（月・祝）&lt;br /&gt;13：00～　夕方（雨天時中止）場所:扇町公園集合&lt;br /&gt;ココルームおでかけ企画　&lt;a href="http://www.cocoroom.org/"&gt;http://www.cocoroom.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;秋の大ピクニック＆大コントラダンス大会 &lt;p&gt;みんなで都会のエアスポット、扇町の丘でピクニックをしながらのんびりゆったりと、ときには秋の空の下ビールなど呑みつつ、悩みの相談などしつつ、昼寝などしながら、みんなで踊りましょう。&lt;br /&gt;※お昼ごはんにココルーム弁当あります（五百円。要予約）&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスとは？…日本ではまだ馴染みがありませんが、アメリカから来たみんなで気軽に踊れる踊り。ハイカラな盆踊りのようなものです。みんなで踊ろう。レッツ ダンス！ &lt;p&gt;同じ日に扇町の丘の上でコモンカフェの「自分には不要でも誰かには必要なものをもってきて、あげるイベント」というのをやるらしいです。そこの人たちが参加してくれたらラッキー。 &lt;p&gt;ゆきえでいびっどより&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2950090595380084185?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2950090595380084185/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2950090595380084185' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2950090595380084185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2950090595380084185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/11/23.html' title='23 日（月、祝）大阪コントライベント'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4437066253086469169</id><published>2009-11-20T14:09:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T14:16:42.465+09:00</updated><title type='text'>Reminder upcoming dances</title><content type='html'>The next Takano Dance is TOMORROW,&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, Nov. 21 from 5:30 tp 9 PM dinner at 7:00&lt;br /&gt;Special Guest: Romain Jourdain calling European Folk Dances &lt;p&gt;THIS MONDAY, a group from Osaka called&lt;br /&gt;CoCo Room&lt;br /&gt;has invited us to do a dance.&lt;br /&gt;At the same time they will be holding an&lt;br /&gt;"extra stuff" exchange...Should be fun and profitable :-)&lt;br /&gt;Information about it (japanese only) can be found at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cocoroom.org/event/index.html"&gt;http://cocoroom.org/event/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;except the location stated there is WRONG. The real location is&lt;br /&gt;Ougimachi Park (koen) 扇町公園&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=100573668859309930266.000478c653cd72990e2d6&amp;amp;z=15"&gt;http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=100573668859309930266.000478c653cd72990e2d6&amp;amp;z=15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(not Namba no miya)&lt;br /&gt;from demachinyanagi&lt;br /&gt;to kyoubashi change to JR&lt;br /&gt;go tenma station&lt;br /&gt;it's a ten minute walk from the station&lt;br /&gt;its 550 yen and takes about an hour.&lt;br /&gt;contact us if you plan to attend...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the next Fushimi Dance is&lt;br /&gt;December 5th from 6 to 9 PM&lt;br /&gt;light snacks at 7:30&lt;br /&gt;maps etc. at &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/"&gt;contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blog &lt;a href="http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/"&gt;http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;email: &lt;a href="mailto:contrafushimi@gmail.com"&gt;contrafushimi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4437066253086469169?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4437066253086469169/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4437066253086469169' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4437066253086469169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4437066253086469169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/11/reminder-upcoming-dances.html' title='Reminder upcoming dances'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-5517639610491654185</id><published>2009-11-20T13:34:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T14:13:02.951+09:00</updated><title type='text'>１２月２６日（土）１０：００－１８：００</title><content type='html'>安田です。  &lt;br&gt;下記ご案内します。    &lt;br&gt;ぐるてん仲間の上野聡子さんからのご案内です。    &lt;br&gt;きょうとダイアリー２０１０に掲載される京都府立植物園の花の原画展と自然素  &lt;br&gt;材モチーフの&lt;p&gt;【ほっとはあと製品】を展示販売します。   &lt;br&gt; 障がいのある仲間たちが描いた植物園の四季折々の花の原画展に合わせて、花模  &lt;br&gt; 様の小物や草木染め等自然素材をテーマに  &lt;br&gt;【ほっとはあと製品】も多々集合。    &lt;br&gt; この秋、花いっぱいのカフェにぜひお越しください。  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.canpan.info/heartgarden/"&gt;http://blog.canpan.info/heartgarden/&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br&gt;会　期　－１２月２６日（土）１０：００－１８：００    &lt;br&gt;***************************  &lt;br&gt;heart garden  &lt;br&gt;京都市南区東九条下殿田町７０（市バス九条車庫南）  &lt;br&gt;京都テルサ西館１Ｆ  075-692-3403  &lt;br&gt;***************************&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-5517639610491654185?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/5517639610491654185/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=5517639610491654185' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/5517639610491654185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/5517639610491654185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html' title='１２月２６日（土）１０：００－１８：００'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3514133463414802616</id><published>2009-11-17T19:00:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T19:00:07.298+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Armelle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Concert and Dance'/><title type='text'>Fushimi, NHK broadcast, Next dances</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The Fushimi Concert and Dance was great. Dragskip are really talented, the tap dancers were fascinating, and the singers were heartwarming. But for us the best part was seeing a roomful of people dancing contra with wonderful music and having a wonderful time. It really reminded me of being back home and feeling the energy of a roomful of dancers just grooving to the music. I can really finally say, Contra has arrived in Japan!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tonight we saw our friend Armelle play accordion music and perform a dance piece. It was another truly international event, with Germans, Finns, French, Portuguese (me!), Japanese, and even Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see her, and a whole bunch of us, on the segment NHK aired on the 10th...it looked great! Everyone was really having fun, and made it look really easy! Thanks again to everyone who joined us for it on the Kamogawa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Saturday we have our next contra...it will be interesting to see if all the recent events bring some new dancers. As a special treat, Romain is coming to teach us some more european folk dance. Plus we will have the usual food, friends, and contra...&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, November 21st&lt;br /&gt;5:30-9:00&lt;br /&gt;TakanoHall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/"&gt;Info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3514133463414802616?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3514133463414802616/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=3514133463414802616' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3514133463414802616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3514133463414802616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/11/fushimi-nhk-broadcast-next-dances.html' title='Fushimi, NHK broadcast, Next dances'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-4658875722844371244</id><published>2009-11-01T08:37:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-11-01T09:49:10.915+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kyoto shimbun'/><title type='text'>Scan of Article in Kyoto Shimbun</title><content type='html'>This is a scan (from Ishiguro-san's website) of the article that appeared in the Kyoto Shimbun recently about contra dance. Notice the handsome man at left...The photo was taken at the August (?) Fushimi dance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://file.fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/c2a91a85.jpg" name="test" height="500" width="100%"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://file.fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/c2a91a85.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1066px; height: 1054px;" src="http://file.fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/c2a91a85.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-4658875722844371244?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/4658875722844371244/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=4658875722844371244' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4658875722844371244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/4658875722844371244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/scan-of-article-in-kyoto-shimbun.html' title='Scan of Article in Kyoto Shimbun'/><author><name>Contradancers In Kyoto</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3404747428014859860</id><published>2009-10-27T17:30:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:30:57.892+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thanks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>おやつコントラありがとう</title><content type='html'>踊るみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;いやはや昨日は、おやつもダンスも楽しかったです！あったかくて、おやつもおいしくて、盛り上がりました～。急だったにも関わらず来てくれたみなさん、ありがとうございました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ＮＨＫの取材は、いったいどのような進め方になるのか事前にはわからなかったのでどうなることかと思いましたが、桂春蝶さんという若い落語家の方と、若いクルーの方たちが5名ほどいらっしゃいました。たくさんの人たちがインタビューされていましたね、見ていてとても面白かったです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;また昨日の通訳する人の数の多さと言ったら！英語から日本語、日本語からフランス語、中国語から日本語、フランス語から英語。。あれには私も春蝶さんに負けずびっくりでした。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;また、これまた急にお願いしたアメルさんの演奏も、素敵でしたね～。アコーディオンでコントラを踊ったのは私たちが初めてかも！？今夜コンサートがあるそうなので、都合のつく方はぜひ。アルファベット・アベニューにて。（四条先斗町にあるバー。夜9時から。フリーチャージ。）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;放送は11月10日（火）夜6:10～のＮＨＫ「京のいちにち」というニュース番組であります。11月7日の伏見でのイベントに間に合わないのがなんともざんねん！なのでみなさん是非お友達を誘ってどしどし整理券ゲットしてください！無料ですてきなバンドやパフォーマーをいくつも楽しめる豪華なイベントだよ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;それでは、11月7日（土）に伏見で、21日（土）に高野でお会いしましょう。お待ちしてまーす★&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ、でいびっど&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3404747428014859860?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3404747428014859860/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=3404747428014859860' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3404747428014859860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3404747428014859860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_7474.html' title='おやつコントラありがとう'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-6738608315112055776</id><published>2009-10-27T17:29:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:36:14.130+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>アコーディオン×コントラ</title><content type='html'>踊るみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;こんにちわ。今日のコントラおやつピクニックですが、フランスから日本を旅行中のアメルさんが、アコーディオンで生演奏してくれることになりました♪&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;普段はダンサーでいらっしゃいますが、カフェーでときどきアコーディオン弾きもしてるそうです。ミュゼット（フランスのカフェーで流れていそうな音楽）が好きな私はほんものが聞けてうれしいです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;とにかく、今日はアコーディオン×コントラの初の試みです　＾　＾　飛び入り参加もおっけい、取材がどういうふうになるのか未知ですが、ぜひ来てね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ　070-6475-2483　magicpancakes1010@wm.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;David 070-6475-5855 davidcrespo@wm.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;ウィシグロさん　070-5430ー8890 wish_i_grow@dj.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスとおやつのピクニック&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;１０月２４日（土）午後１時～３時　&lt;br /&gt;集合場所：京阪出町柳の駅に１時　そこから誘導します。&lt;br /&gt;もしくは鴨川沿岸の西側、今出川通りを南に２００メートルくらい下がったところの広場に直接来てください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;１時間くらい踊って、そのあとおやつピクニックです。せいやさんという人が当日お誕生日だそうなので、みんなでお祝いもしましょう！サプライズパーティです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・マグカップとおやつ用のボウル、フォーク&lt;br /&gt;・みんなで食べるおいしいおやつや、飲み物。&lt;br /&gt;・（あるひとは）敷物。毛布だとやわらかくてなおよいです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえより&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;コントラ高野のＨＰ→http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/&lt;br /&gt;コントラ伏見のＨＰ→http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6738608315112055776?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/6738608315112055776/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=6738608315112055776' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6738608315112055776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6738608315112055776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_8769.html' title='アコーディオン×コントラ'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7868539092444133060</id><published>2009-10-27T17:26:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:35:26.675+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thanks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>Thank you Arigatou Merci</title><content type='html'>Well, the NHK "Emergency Dance" went GREAT!! A big thank you so much to everyone who showed up, and especially Ishiguro-san for working so hard to make it happen. We had a great time; it was a lot of fun watching everyone being interviewed. All the good spirit and wonderful things about contra dance really showed through in people's responses. Everyone was so sincere and warm, and most of all, joyful. And when the interviewer joined the dance, everyone really made it be and look so easy for him. It went perfectly, so thank you everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A special MERCI BEAUCOUP to Armelle for coming through at the last minute and playing wonderful European folk music for us! In case anyone would like to hear her perform more, she is playing again tomorrow, this Sunday 10/25 that is, at "Alphabet Avenue", which is a bar at Pontochou douri &lt;br /&gt;and Shijo. The show starts at 9:00 PM and also features another accordionist named Ryotarou. The event is free of charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NHK segment will air on the 10th of November sometime after 6PM on NHK channel 1. The name of the show is Kyo no ichinichi. (Unfortunately, this is 3 days AFTER our event in Fushimi, Zannen!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otsukaresama. See you all in Fushimi on the 7th and Takano on the 21st.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David and Yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7868539092444133060?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7868539092444133060/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7868539092444133060' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7868539092444133060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7868539092444133060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/thank-you-arigatou-merci.html' title='Thank you Arigatou Merci'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7860216830666993578</id><published>2009-10-27T17:25:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:25:06.227+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>final info on "Emergency Dance"</title><content type='html'>Well, the (so called) Emergency Dance is today at 1PM on the Kamo River, just south of Imadegawa, on the west side. We will be dancing for about an hour, and then having a picnic. The weather report predicts cloudy but dry weather, in the 20's (66 F). Some people will be meeting at Demachiyanagi Station at 1PM, and the location is a minute or two from there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were very lucky to find a very special musician to perform for us. (The lovely and talented ;-) Armelle from Auvergne (??), France will be playing traditional and original accordion music. She is realy wonderful to listen and dance to, so do come if you can! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can't find us when you arrive, we can be reached by keitai at 070 6475 5855 and email at davidcrespo@wm.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturally, bring utensils, cups, plates, and if you can, a dish for the picnic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don't know very much about how the filming will be proceed, except that the name of the show is Kyo no Ichinichi. It is on the local NHK (channel 1 ?), and airs every weekday from 6 to 7 PM. It's a kind of local news and events show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The premise of the segment will be that they will be walking along the Kamo with a certain rakugo talent (I don't know his name), and they will see us and come over to "check it out." The rakugo performer will then try to learn to dance, and so on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you soon....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;david and yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7860216830666993578?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7860216830666993578/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7860216830666993578' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7860216830666993578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7860216830666993578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/final-info-on-emergency-dance.html' title='final info on &quot;Emergency Dance&quot;'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-1091576215244462792</id><published>2009-10-27T17:23:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:23:59.243+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>ピクニック・コントラ</title><content type='html'>踊るみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;こんにちわ。ＮＨＫの取材がきっかけで、とつぜんですが今週&lt;br /&gt;末の土曜日の午後、出町柳の川べりでコントラダンスおやつピ&lt;br /&gt;クニックをすることになりました♪♪&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;落語家の方が来て、いっしょに踊るそうです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;天気もおそらく晴れなので、いつもとはまた違う愉快なダンス&lt;br /&gt;になりそうですよ☆ぜひぜひいらしてくださいね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;初心者講習も兼ねていますので、はじめての人も気兼ねなくい&lt;br /&gt;らしてください。来れそうな方はメールくださると助かります&lt;br /&gt;。当日の待ち合わせのために、以下のアドレスを登録しておい&lt;br /&gt;てくださると安心です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ　070-6475-2483　magicpancakes1010@wm.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;David 070-6475-5855 davidcrespo@wm.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;ウィシグロさん　070-5430ー8890 wish_i_grow@dj.pdx.ne.jp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスとおやつのピクニック&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;１０月２４日（土）午後１時～３時　&lt;br /&gt;集合場所：京阪出町柳の駅に１時　そこから誘導します。&lt;br /&gt;１時間くらい踊って、そのあとおやつピクニックです。せいや&lt;br /&gt;さんという人が当日お誕生日だそうなので、みんなでお祝いし&lt;br /&gt;ましょう！サプライズパーティです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・マグカップとおやつ用のボウル、フォーク&lt;br /&gt;・みんなで食べるおいしいおやつや、飲み物。&lt;br /&gt;・（あるひとは）敷物。毛布だとやわらかくてなおよいです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえより&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;コントラ高野のＨＰ→http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/&lt;br /&gt;コントラ伏見のＨＰ→http://fushicon.blog.shinobi.jp/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-1091576215244462792?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/1091576215244462792/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=1091576215244462792' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1091576215244462792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/1091576215244462792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_1611.html' title='ピクニック・コントラ'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-8871255090521788588</id><published>2009-10-27T17:19:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:35:26.675+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>emergency dancers needed!!!</title><content type='html'>We need dancers for an EMERGENCY DANCE this Saturday from 1 to 3 PM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why the emergency? Well, NHK has offered to shoot a segment about contra dance in Kyoto to promote the concert and dance in Fushimi on November 7 (&lt;a href="http://contrakyotoupcoming.blogspot.com/2009/10/sat-november-7th-fushimi-concert-and.html"&gt;http://contrakyotoupcoming.blogspot.com/2009/10/sat-november-7th-fushimi-concert-and.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT they are only available to shoot this Saturday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to share a little limelight, no matter what level dancer you are or how often you have come, we would love the help. This is a great opportunity for us, and it would be wonderful to get as many people as possible to attend. We know it is terribly short notice, but if you think you can help us out in any way, please let us know. &lt;br /&gt;At this point, we are still arranging a suitable location, perhaps the Takano Hall, Fushimi, or perhaps even outside by the river. We will send out more information as it is decided, perhaps at the last minute, so please stay posted...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thanks in advance....david and yukie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-8871255090521788588?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/8871255090521788588/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=8871255090521788588' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8871255090521788588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/8871255090521788588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/emergency-dancers-needed_27.html' title='emergency dancers needed!!!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-6495766725913300521</id><published>2009-10-27T17:17:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:35:26.675+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>【緊急！要返信】ＮＨＫ取材　今週末</title><content type='html'>踊るみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;こんにちわ。柿や花梨がそちらこちらでおいしそうに実ってま&lt;br /&gt;すね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;突然ですけれども、ウィシグロさんがNHKの取材を取り付けま&lt;br /&gt;した。すごい！１１月７日の伏見でのイベントにとっても、ふ&lt;br /&gt;だんのダンスにとっても、よい宣伝になるかと思います。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ところが、今週末24日（土）13:00～15:00の間に、取材したい&lt;br /&gt;と言われています。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;せっかくなので、みなさんが踊ったり演奏したりしている映像&lt;br /&gt;をとってもらいたいと思います。まったくもって突然ですけれ&lt;br /&gt;ども、都合をつけられそうだという方、このメールにそのまま&lt;br /&gt;ご返信ください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;場所はまだ決まっていませんが、高野から伏見の間のどこかに&lt;br /&gt;なります。野外になるかもしれません。そうしたらおやつピク&lt;br /&gt;ニックしましょう。場所と参加費については追ってご連絡しま&lt;br /&gt;す。初めてのＴＶ取材なので、ぜひご協力ください。よろしく&lt;br /&gt;おねがいします。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊でいびっど、ゆきえ＊&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6495766725913300521?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/6495766725913300521/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=6495766725913300521' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6495766725913300521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6495766725913300521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_27.html' title='【緊急！要返信】ＮＨＫ取材　今週末'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-2407401922081026879</id><published>2009-10-22T13:12:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:35:26.675+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NHK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emergency dance'/><title type='text'>emergency dancers needed!!!</title><content type='html'>We need dancers for an EMERGENCY DANCE this Saturday from 1 to 3 PM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why the emergency? Well, NHK has offered to shoot a segment about contra dance in Kyoto to promote the concert and &lt;a href="http://contrakyotoupcoming.blogspot.com/2009/10/sat-november-7th-fushimi-concert-and.html"&gt;dance in Fushimi on November 7 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT they are only available to shoot this Saturday.  &lt;br /&gt;If you want to share a little limelight, no matter what level dancer you are or how often you have come, we would love the help. This is a great opportunity for us, and it would be wonderful to get as many people as possible to attend. We know it is terribly short notice, but if you think you can help us out in any way, please let us know. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, we are still arranging a suitable location, perhaps the Takano Hall, Fushimi, or perhaps even outside by the river. We will send out more information as it is decided, perhaps at the last minute, so please stay posted...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thanks in advance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-2407401922081026879?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/2407401922081026879/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=2407401922081026879' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2407401922081026879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/2407401922081026879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/emergency-dancers-needed.html' title='emergency dancers needed!!!'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-6220348594770705401</id><published>2009-10-15T22:25:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T22:36:19.928+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><title type='text'>Kyoto Shimbun Article about Contradance!</title><content type='html'>There is an article about Contradance in the October 14th Kyoto Shimbun. The article features a picture of Yukie and I and some dancers and talks about the Fushimi dance and concert coming up in November. A big step!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6220348594770705401?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/6220348594770705401/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=6220348594770705401' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6220348594770705401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6220348594770705401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/kyoto-shimbun-article-about-contradance.html' title='Kyoto Shimbun Article about Contradance!'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-452904488330456924</id><published>2009-10-15T22:08:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T22:19:25.150+09:00</updated><title type='text'>京都新聞に載りました</title><content type='html'>２００９年１１月１５日付けの京都新聞の朝刊に、コントラダンスの記事が載りました！　＾　＾　&lt;br /&gt;題は「コントラダンス楽しもう」。高野でなく、伏見のほうのダンスの写真もカラーで載っています。私たちのコントラダンスが新聞に載るのは初めてです。わーい。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;みなさんも是非チェックしてみて下さい。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-452904488330456924?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/452904488330456924/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=452904488330456924' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/452904488330456924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/452904488330456924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html' title='京都新聞に載りました'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3915594621721018346</id><published>2009-10-03T16:03:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T22:39:12.889+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>Upcoming dances</title><content type='html'>This is a reminder that tommorrow's fushimi dance is in a new location, and also some information about the exciting&lt;br /&gt;International Concert and Dance&lt;br /&gt;on November 17th.&lt;br /&gt;This event features several outstanding dance and musical performers and will be held in the Kuretake Bunka Center Rehearsal Hall. AND it's free, so mark your calendars!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 4 in Fushimi&lt;br /&gt;Sun., Oct. Fushimi 6:00-9:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;SPECIAL LOCATION:&lt;br /&gt;Kuretake Bunka Center Rehearsal Hall&lt;br /&gt;http://www.kyoto-ongeibun.jp/kuretake/map.php&lt;br /&gt;500yen potluck bring food and utensils&lt;br /&gt;▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△&lt;br /&gt;fushimi contra: http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/&lt;br /&gt;fushimi email：contrafushimi@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△▼△&lt;br /&gt;(Directions, What To Bring, Parking, Cancellations ...)http://www.blogger.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sat., Oct. 17th Takano 5:30-9:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;homepage: contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sat., November 7th Fushimi Concert and Dance 5：30-8：00 PM&lt;br /&gt;PERFORMERS:&lt;br /&gt;Drakskip（northern european traditional dance）&lt;br /&gt;　hana～puspa～[tap dance）&lt;br /&gt;　minon no kai (ethnic music group)&lt;br /&gt;　TEAM♪lutica (chorus groups)&lt;br /&gt;concert 5:30-6:40&lt;br /&gt;contradance 6:40~8:00&lt;br /&gt;http://fushicon.okoshi-yasu.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3915594621721018346?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3915594621721018346/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=3915594621721018346' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3915594621721018346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/3915594621721018346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/10/upcoming-dances.html' title='Upcoming dances'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-6405114545087810531</id><published>2009-09-30T13:40:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-30T13:43:07.092+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>10 4 Fushimi dance is in a special location</title><content type='html'>&lt;a class="whattobring" href="http://www.blogger.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html" style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;" target="_self" title="What to Bring"&gt;(Directions, What To Bring, Parking, Cancellations ...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kyoto-ongeibun.jp/kuretake/map.php" target="new"&gt;Fushimi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="dates"&gt;Sun., Oct. 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="times"&gt;6:00-9:00 PM&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;SPECIAL LOCATION: &lt;a href="http://www.kyoto-ongeibun.jp/kuretake/map.php" style="color: red;" target="new"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kuretake Bunka Center Rehearsal Hall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;also, upcoming is the &lt;a href="http://holyring.jp/ir/takano/dmap.html" target="new"&gt;Takano &lt;/a&gt;dance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="dates"&gt;Sat., Oct. 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="times"&gt;5:30-9:00 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~nishiho/shisetsu/a06_01.html" target="new"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-6405114545087810531?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/6405114545087810531/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=6405114545087810531' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6405114545087810531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/6405114545087810531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/09/10-4-fushimi-dance-is-in-new-location.html' title='10 4 Fushimi dance is in a special location'/><author><name>Contrakyoto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08818835189206681544</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-7387278786405394285</id><published>2009-09-21T14:37:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T17:36:45.505+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thanks'/><title type='text'>ダンスとおんがくありがとう　＾　　＾</title><content type='html'>おどるみなさま&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今回のダンスは色とりどりでしたね～　来てくれたみなさんありがとう！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;島根にすむウエールズ娘のジョーさんのフィドルはスゴ腕だったし、&lt;br /&gt;ロマンさんが教えてくれたフランスのスコティッシュ・ダンス（Schottishe　ボヘミアンたちに由来するフォークダンスみたい）もはじめてで面白かったし、&lt;br /&gt;４歳のこびとさんたちも来てくれたし。大津や大阪から来てくれた人たちもいました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;バンドのみなさんの音楽もすごく贅沢でしたね。　&lt;br /&gt;こんなに腕のいいミュージシャンたちが弾いてくれるんだから、１，２曲だけでなくもっと味わいたい！と思いました。３つのバンドのみなさん、どうもありがとうございました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;なんだかいろんなことが起こってドタバタしましたが、いつも来てくれる人たちに加えて新しい人たちもたくさん来てくれて、新しい交流がそちらこちらで見えました～&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;次回の高野ダンスは、１０月１７日（第３土曜日）です。&lt;br /&gt;それではよい一日を♪&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ、デイビッドより&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-7387278786405394285?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/7387278786405394285/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=7387278786405394285' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7387278786405394285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/7387278786405394285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_20.html' title='ダンスとおんがくありがとう　＾　　＾'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-290865293049562980</id><published>2009-09-21T14:27:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-21T14:28:32.323+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thanks'/><title type='text'>Thanks!! NEXT DANCE OCTOBER 17th.</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;Well we certainly had an International (can I include Shiga, Fushimi, and Osaka as foreign countries?) and Interesting (toddlers, photographers, etc) dance this weekend...I want to thank everyone for coming: contra dance is not just about dancing or music, but about sharing time together with wonderful people, and always, one of the highlights of a dance is getting to chat with people, trying out people's homemade dishes, and enjoying the beautiful warm atmosphere. So thank you everyone for participating!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must also give some quick very special thanks to the many musicians who made this event especially rich:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What great music we had! Many special &lt;a href="http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/cgi-bin/WD.cgi/?Subdir=fun/welsh&amp;amp;Word=diolch"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;diolch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  (thanks in welsh) to Jo from Shimane via Wales for playing violin. I want to thank her for teaching me a little about Welsh dance...I didn't know that Wales has it's own kind of dance event, called the Twmpath! And to Bosco and Heja  and friend (!?) for giving us some foot stomping old-time music. Also, a big MERCI to Romain, from Paris via Brittany for giving us an energetic introduction to the Schottishe. And a big ようこそ　to Kamachan from far off Shiga for adding some lovely guitar sounds to Banchan and Marichan's excitiing music. And, not to be forgotten is おおきに to the Fushimi Contra Dance band for their Takano debut. And a big HURRAH to all the musicians for working together to really fill the hall with music at the impromptu finale with no time to rehearse!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, our next Takano dance is OCTOBER !17th...See you there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David and Yukie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,127,0); FONT-STYLE: italicfont-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-290865293049562980?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/290865293049562980/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=290865293049562980' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/290865293049562980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5479748415852758673/posts/default/290865293049562980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/2009/09/thanks-next-dance-october-17th.html' title='Thanks!! NEXT DANCE OCTOBER 17th.'/><author><name>asllearner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05358825775332677166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3303093783775501025</id><published>2009-09-17T07:54:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T07:54:06.136+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upcoming'/><title type='text'>今週末コントラ 日時: ２００９年９月１９日 (土)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;おどるみなさま&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;冷えてきましたね。寒がりの私は、一人もう冬がやってきたようなわびしい気持ちです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;踊って温まりましょう。。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;今月はなんだか豪華です。バンドがたぶん３つも弾いてくれます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;さいきんデビューした伏見バンドと、いまやコントラの顔ばんちゃん＋まりちゃんに加え、BOSCOさんが久しぶりに都合をつけて弾きにきてくれます♪♪（さいきん来始めた人のために簡単に説明すると、オールドタイムというアメリカの南部の音楽でみんなを酔わせる、すごいミュージシャンです。）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ＢＯＳＣＯさんは島根からウエールズ娘も連れてきます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;あと、この間参加してくれた、フランス人のロマンさんが、今回はブルターニュ地方のフォークダンスを教えてくれるそうです☆たのしみですね～♪&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;そしてもしかしたら、4歳の子供とお母さんが2組やってくるかも。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;というわけで超豪華になりそうなコントラダンス、お見逃しなく！！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;（うち履きできれば持ってきてね！）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;＊＊＊＊＊&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;コントラダンスの夜 ご案内&lt;br /&gt;赤と茶色の季節には。おいしいご飯を持ち寄って&lt;br /&gt;、みんなでコントラダンスの夜を楽しみませんか。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;日時: ２００９年９月１９日 (土)&lt;br /&gt;夜の６時から９時&lt;br /&gt;（初心者講習５時半から６時）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;場所:カトリック高野教会 第一伝道館 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・内履き用靴。きれいに拭かれた外履きでもよいです。&lt;br /&gt;・おいしいお料理一品(できれば肉料理より野菜料理を)&lt;br /&gt;・マイ食器(箸、ボウル、マグカップなど)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;参加費:500円&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;つくり中のホームページはこちら→&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; ゆきえ、でいびっどより&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3303093783775501025?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3303093783775501025/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://home.ripway.com/2005-7/350383/usto166.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479748415852758673.post-3324317453718722615</id><published>2009-09-05T16:17:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T16:17:36.847+09:00</updated><title type='text'>先週ありがとう＋来月は内履き！</title><content type='html'>踊る皆さま&lt;br /&gt;こんにちわ。この間のダンスに来てくれた方、どうもありがと&lt;br /&gt;うございました。&lt;br /&gt;この間は新しい人たちも４，５人来てくれたので、とってもに&lt;br /&gt;ぎやかで、大笑いの時間になりましたね。まだコントラに慣れ&lt;br /&gt;ていない人も多かったのに、盛り上がりました〜&lt;br /&gt;ウィシグロさんが初めて書いたダンスを踊ったり、ロマンさん&lt;br /&gt;がフランスのフォークダンスを教えてくれたりして、本当に楽&lt;br /&gt;しかったです♪♪&lt;br /&gt;９月のダンスも第３土曜日の予定です。今からカレンダーに○&lt;br /&gt;しといてください！&lt;br /&gt;今回のダンスで、みんなが内履き履いて踊ってたら、バランス&lt;br /&gt;のときに足でダンダン！と音が鳴って、きっとさらに楽しかっ&lt;br /&gt;ただろうと思ったので、次回から内履き持ってる人はぜひ持っ&lt;br /&gt;てきてください。よろしくお願いします。&lt;br /&gt;＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスの夜 ご案内&lt;br /&gt;赤と茶色の季節には。おいしいご飯を持ち寄って&lt;br /&gt;、みんなでコントラダンスの夜を楽しみませんか。 &lt;br /&gt;日時: ２００９年９月１９日 (土)&lt;br /&gt;夜の６時から９時&lt;br /&gt;（初心者講習５時半から６時）&lt;br /&gt;場所:カトリック高野教会 第一伝道館 &lt;br /&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・内履き用靴。きれいに拭かれた外履きでもよいです。&lt;br /&gt;・おいしいお料理一品(できれば肉料理より野菜料理を)&lt;br /&gt;・マイ食器(箸、ボウル、マグカップなど)&lt;br /&gt;参加費:500円&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;ホームページはこちら→&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ、でいびっどより&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5479748415852758673-3324317453718722615?l=contrakyototest.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://contrakyototest.blogspot.com/feeds/3324317453718722615/comments/default' title='コメントの投稿'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5479748415852758673&amp;postID=3324317453718722615' title='0 件のコメント'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='html'>このあいだの日曜日に、コントラ勉強会にきてくれたみなさん、どうもありがとう。朝ごはんもケーキもメロンも、いろいろおいしかったし、実のある時間になったんじゃないかと思います。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;特に、トワル（twirl）を集中して練習できたのが、とてもよかったと思いました。トワルが加わると、コントラはダイナミックになって、個々人で好きな風にユーモアが加えられるようになるから。今はなかなかコツがつかめていないという人も、数をこなせばスムーズになっていくと思います　＾　　＾　　みんなでクルクル！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;来週末は８月の高野コントラです。最近高野は人数がなかなかあつまらなくて、いいダンスが踊りにくいので、みなさんぜひびしばし来てください。来れそうな人はメールで返信してくれると大体の人数がわかって助かります。よろしくお願いします☆&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;コントラダンスの夜 ご案内 &lt;br /&gt;青い実が夜風に揺れるころ。おいしいご飯を持ち寄って&lt;br /&gt;、みんなでコントラダンスの夜を楽しみませんか。 &lt;br /&gt;日時: ２００９年８月２２日 (土)&lt;br /&gt;夜の６時から９時&lt;br /&gt;（初心者講習５時半から６時）&lt;br /&gt;場所:カトリック高野教会 第一伝道館 &lt;br /&gt;持ち物：&lt;br /&gt;・おいしいお料理一品(できれば肉料理より野菜料理を)&lt;br /&gt;・マイ食器(箸、ボウル、マグカップなど)&lt;br /&gt;参加費:500円 &lt;br /&gt;＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊&lt;br /&gt;ホームページはこちら→ &lt;a href="http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/"&gt;http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ゆきえ、でいびっどより&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' 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/&gt;※途中参加・早退ＯＫ&lt;br /&gt;◆会場:男山レクリエーションセンター&lt;br /&gt;(京阪八幡駅からケーブルカーで山上駅へ、その後徒歩10分)&lt;br /&gt;(駐車場あります。ちょっと道が分かりにくい。)&lt;br /&gt;※アクセスは相談に応じます。&lt;br /&gt;◆集合:&lt;br /&gt;会場までの足・到着時間に応じ、別途連絡します。&lt;br /&gt;◆会費:&lt;br /&gt;一般3000円&lt;br /&gt;女性2500円&lt;br /&gt;大学生2000円&lt;br /&gt;高校生1000円&lt;br /&gt;留学生1000円&lt;br /&gt;◆持ち物:&lt;br /&gt;マイ食器(皿・箸・コップなど)、汗ふきタオル、&lt;br /&gt;体温調節できて汚れてもいい服装、靴は運動靴で。&lt;br /&gt;◆特別な募集:&lt;br /&gt;1.車を出せる人&lt;br /&gt;2.宿泊する人(車で来ても心おきなくアルコールが飲めるよ。)&lt;br /&gt;別途1000円、限定5人&lt;br /&gt;◆時間割:&lt;br /&gt;15:00ピクニックタイム&lt;br /&gt;16:00バーベキュー準備&lt;br /&gt;17:00最初の乾杯&lt;br /&gt;18:30片付け&lt;br /&gt;19:00ファイヤーコントラタイム&lt;br /&gt;20:00中締め→二次会&lt;br /&gt;◆雨天&lt;br /&gt;雨天の場合は、キャンプファイヤーのみ中止です。&lt;br /&gt;バーベキューは決行します。&lt;br /&gt;◆参加申込み&lt;br /&gt;9/2までに下記アドレスまで連絡お願いします。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:contrafushimi@gmail.com"&gt;contrafushimi@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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