Japanese Dance
Home Visit & Culture Experience Program
Option
Why not enjoy and learn elegant traditional Japanese dance? The instructor will teach you how to use your hands, feet, and body in a friendly atmosphere.
Customers will go to a Japanese Dance instructor's house escorted by WAKJAPAN English speaking attendant. The attendant will explain about Japanese dance as well as culture of Kyoto/Japan. Upon arrival at the instructor's house, the instructor will welcome you and help you put on Kimono (tradtional clothes). Then the instructor will teach you how to walk, use your hands/feet. She will also teach you how to use folding fans or other tools. Customers will then dance with advice/support of the instructor. Customers should be able to dance along one Japanese song at the end of the lesson.
Time
2-2.5 hours (including round-trip taxi transfers)
Price
17,000 yen per person (based on 1 participant)
11,500 yen per person (based on 2 participants or more)
1. Extra charge will be required for the program outside business hours (Our business hours: 09:30-18:30)
2. Programs will be shortened if customers are late for the meeting time due to personal reasons.
3. We may have to use public transportation, depending on the location of your hotel.
4. Maximum: approximately 9 people (Customers may be divided into several groups depending on the number)
5. No discount for children.
6. Other foreign language speaking staff than English can be arranged at an extra charge.
7. Observers will be charged a full price as well.
- Your attendant pick you up to your hotel lobby.
- You move to your instructor's house with the attendant by chartered taxi. The attendant introduce many things, basic information about Kyoto and Japan.
- Arrive at the house, and start the experience.As you arrive at the house, your instructor meet you. She/He introduces about her/himself firstly, your introduction, and then start a basic lecture about a history of Japanese Dance.
- After putting on a Kimono, let’s dance!
- First of all, she introduces how to bow, then you learn how to use a fan, how to move, finally you will dance elegantly.
- Your taxi comes to the house. You leave your instructor's house and go back to your hotel with the attendant.
Culture Experience Short Program
For those who do not have enough time for home-visit course, WAK JAPAN offers Short experience programs. The courses are run of workshop basis and many people (maximum about 10 people) can share a program at the same time.