This year the Sakura festival, organized by Sugihara Foundation in Kaunas and supported by the Japanese embassy, was not blessed with great weather as last year. Still, Kyrie Oda′s dance looked all the more touching. She and her colleague went along with their idea to perform barefoot, despite cold weather.
The beauty of this performance is that its choreography makes full use of this urban space – a unique interwar building and its surroundings, where the Japanese consulate used to be.
This is a glimpse of the performance: