Foreign Students’ Music Contest
Last weekend, a friend — Dede — invited me to the Tokyo 12th annual ‘Foreign Students’ Music Contest’ in which she was competing.
Performances ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime; the audience watched a Jackson-esq dance routine set to ‘Smooth Criminal’ followed closely by a performance of traditional Japanese Noh-style drumming.
I snapped a couple of the photos of Dede’s Indonesian group performing a SMAP number and was lucky enough to catch Dede in full swing with her ‘angklung‘:
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