Originally posted at https://wheres.erosson.org/post/150577789553/yoyogi-park-arabian-festival-accidentally-found






Yoyogi Park Arabian Festival

Accidentally found this a few hours before it ended. Most of the audience and performers were Japanese. Most of the visibly Middle Eastern folks I saw were selling food, and even then, most food salespeople were Japanese too. Interesting to compare that with the representation you’d see in the US, I think.

The blue dancer in the third photo was spinning a circular fabric/ornament of some kind on his hand, above his head - sort of like how you see Italian chefs spin pizza dough in TV/movies. I hadn’t seen this kind of dance before.

I can now say I’ve had an Arabian belly-dancing lesson in Japanese

Originally posted at https://wheres.erosson.org/post/150577789553/yoyogi-park-arabian-festival-accidentally-found