{"id":4108,"date":"2015-04-24T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2017-10-09T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T06:06:06","slug":"hanami-in-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2015\/04\/hanami-in-kaunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanami in Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeling very nostalgic about my proper hanami in Tokyo in 2009, I attended a Japanese Embassy \/ Sugihara<\/a> Museum event in Kaunas, where a Japanese performance artist Kirie Oda cooperated with Lithuanian violinist and singer to create a performance around Sugihara House, which used to be the Japanese consulate before WWII and now hosts a Sugihara museum, foundation, and VMU Centre for Asian Studies. The artist wanted to use this space, with its sakura trees planted by Yukiko Sugihara herself, and a larger green space behind the building.<\/p>\n

\"Japanese-Lithuanian<\/a>

Japanese-Lithuanian artistic cooperation – click on the images to enlarge them<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

By graciously moving from one object to another, Oda, now residing in Kaunas, explored the boundaries of this space and established a connection between herself, the trees and land, as if translating music for immobile objects. In this photo her body posture mirrors the shade of a tree.<\/p>\n

\"Dancer<\/a>

Dancer and tree<\/p><\/div>\n

Angled lighting and insufficiently short shutterspeed produced an effect where her dress is in focus, but the skin of her moving, sun-lit limbs looks translucent.<\/p>\n

\"Dance<\/a>

Dance performance<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t know what to think of the photographers, who wouldn’t climb on a stage if this was a regular theater, but because the performance took place outside, they felt free to take close shots like this.<\/p>\n

\"Photographers\"<\/a>

Photographers<\/p><\/div>\n

After the performance, it was time to observe the sakuras and enjoy sushi, offered by the Japanese Embassy.<\/p>\n

\"Sakura\"<\/a>

Sakura<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feeling very nostalgic about my proper hanami in Tokyo in 2009, I attended a Japanese Embassy \/ Sugihara Museum event in Kaunas, where a Japanese performance artist Kirie Oda cooperated with Lithuanian violinist and singer to create a performance around Sugihara House, which used to be the Japanese consulate before WWII and now hosts a Sugihara museum, foundation, and VMU … <\/p>\n

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