- at Hikarigaoka Dome, Tokyo on May 4, 2012 -
The celebrated five advanced & challenge callers in Japan, that is Messrs.
Motohiro Yoshimura, Takashi Yamasaki, Osamu Tajima, Toshifumi Ueno and Masaru Wada,
decided to hold the advanced program party entitled "Advance in Tokyo" regularly in Tokyo area.
In 2004, they had their first memorable party at Hikarigaoka Dome in Nerima, Tokyo.
This year, it is the Eighth, and 130 SD fans enjoyed dancing.
Members of the advanced club "Step by Step" managed by Mr. Masaru Wada
helped him with the party management,
and all the participants had a happy advanced program dancing.
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Spring is here! The time when the cherry-blossoms around Honan hall bloom
and signal the time for the annual Tokyo square dance club meeting.
Mr. Makiko Wakamatu (the chairman) reported and approved the following.
Firstly the "2011 progress report " was presented as well as the accounting report
by Mr. Soneda (chief) which was inspected by Mr. Yamamoto.
And then, each committee chief gave reports on their respective activities.
Furthermore, the "new year activity plan" and the "new year budget plan"
were announced and approved.
Then we moved on to the election of the officers for the new year.
Mr. Fujii who is in charge of the election administration proceeded with the election process.
The president, the vice-presidents and the chiefs of each committee were selected carefully.
As a result, 17 committee chiefs were chosen.
| Newly-Elected Board & Committee Members 2012 | |
| Board & Committee | Officers |
| Honorary President | Mr.Wada |
| Adviser | Mr.Okiyoshi,Ms.Sugawara & Mr.Sugihara |
| President | Mr.Wakamatu |
| Vice-President | Mr.Itohara, Ms.Nishi & Mr.Hasegawa |
| Audit | Mr.Itagaki & Mr.Sawamura |
| Planning | Ms.Nakatani |
| General Affairs | Mr.Yamashita |
| Public Relations | Mr.Sagara |
| Publicity | Mr.Numata |
| Snack | Ms.Kato |
| Accounting | Mr.Soneda |
| Promotion | Ms.Imaoka |
| Event | Mr.Baba |
| International Friendship Promotion | Mr.Chi |
| Costume | Ms.Wada |
| Web-Page | Mr.Yaoko |
| Related Organizations | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan SD Liaison Conference | Wakamatu, Mr.Wada, Mr.Sugihara & Mr Hasegawa. |
| Japan SD Association | Mr.Wakamatu, Mr.Wada, Mr.Sugihara,
Mr.Itohara, Mr.Okiyoshi, Mr.Hasegawa |
| National FD Federation of Japan | Mr.Wakamatu & Mr.Sugihara |
| Tokyo Metropolitan FD Federation | Mr.Wada & Mr.Sugihara |
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| Mr.Itagaki | Ms.Nakatani | Mr.Yamashita | Ms.Imaoka |
at Sumida Hall
Sponsorship: Tokyo Metropolitan Square Dance Liaison Conference
& Tokyo Metropolitan Fork Dance Federation.
This dance festival is held annually, and this year,
700 dancers from Tokyo participated.
Many dance members and five callers
from Tokyo Square Dance Club attended this festival.
It was a very enjoyable party.
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MS Instractor
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Parade & Ceremony
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Let's Dance
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Muriel Gubser and Beda Shoepfer from Switzerland visited our club on November 5.
They both belong to the club eRhythm Rebellsf, which has about 40 members.
Our club member Claudia Ota, who is also from Switzerland, didnft know about that club.
On the same day, we also had the visit of Tsukuba SDC club members.
On that day, our meeting was certainly much fun.
Jim (James Stegman) from the U.S. city of San Marco (near San Diego)
came to our regular meeting on October 22.
Jim is a candy-making expert.
He was looking forward to square dance in Japan and found out about us on our WEB PAGE.
On the way back, he mentioned that he will visit again our club next year with his daughter,
who lives in East Yokosuka. We look forward to welcome them.
(The photo of Jimfs Business Card)
Today we had a costume-exchange event at the regular dance meeting.
This event started because we wanted to reuse costumes
which are in the closet and not used any more.
With the memberf cooperation we had more than 120 items.
When you supply the costumes, please make sure that they are washed.
They are sold at a price of 1,000 yen for menfs clothing and 2,000yen for ladies.
As there are so many costumes this time, it will be held next week, too.
Thank you, all the members of Tokyo Square Dance Club, for your cooperation.
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The 63rd DoSaDo Party was held in Tokyo Sumida Hall on July 31.
There were no new faces for the Tokyo Square Dance Club
but a large number of members enjoyed participating in the event very much.
During the ceremony, we celebrated the graduation from the beginner's level for over 600 people.
Then we all danced and enjoyed the big party very much.
There were speeches by Nakajima-san of the Musashino Nerima SDC
and Sugitani-san of Sumida Circle 8 SDC.
We appreciate the hard work of the organizers of Tokyo-Metropolitan Square Dance Association.
Thank you for a wonderful day!
Progurams
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The lecturers
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New Dancers
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Ceremony
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Lunch
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Let's Dance
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Tokyo Sky Tree Tower
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For the Planning Committee's second event,
they organized an Ooi Twinkle Horse Race tour on Friday July 3rd.
36 people participated in the all-you-can-eat/drink and all-you-can-bet horse race
at a buffet-style restaurant.
Whether experienced or inexperienced in horse racing, everyone uttered either "I won" or "I lost".
Everyone was full of joy or sorrow. Also at night, there was beautiful illumination everywhere.
Since everybody became so preoccupied by the horse racing,
we couldn't talk too much to each other,
but it was great that we experienced something out of the ordinary
and enjoyed this activity together.
Our stomachs were satisfied, but I wonder about the profits...?
(A report from Yoshie Nishi & Photo by Mr.Asaka & Ms.Enomoto)
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the TSDC 2011 official costume.
A mini-fashion show was organized to present the TSDC 2011 official costume
before the Club Meeting!
The gentlemen's costumes will all have the same design.
The design for the ladies' costumes can be created by the Ladies as they like
using the same materials as the gentlemen's.
Why don't you make one? The more the merrier!
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to commemorate 50 years as a caller.
Mr. Masaru Wada, President of Tokyo Square Dance Club was given an award
to commemorate 50 years as a caller. The award was presented by Mr. Tim Marriner,
President of the Callerlab Convention held in Nevada, Las Vegas, March, 2011.
Mr. Wada started his calling career at Lucky Eight Squares located in Yokota Airbase, Japan.
He was taught by Mr. Gene Threewit who lived on the base at that time.
Mr. Wada then founded the Tokyo Square Dance Club and since
then has been continuing to lead its activities.
Mr. Wada is a pioneer caller in Japan and has passion to spread
and develop square dance not only in Japan but in other countries.
Mr. and Mrs. Wada from Brisbane, Australia were in Japan on May 28 and June 4.
They have visited Tokyo Square dance club several times before and when we visit Australia,
they always take good care of us. Approximately 100 participants from Australia will join
our 50th anniversary dance party held next year; Mr and Mrs Wada will coordinate
the tour to Japan. On this day, the members of Shimura SD visited us ; Mr. Fujisaki gave
a wonderful call and we danced joyfully.
to Support the Tohoku area
We have received many emails and letters of encouragement and support
from overseas and we really appreciate these concerns.
There are still people who are suffering from the damage in the Tohoku area,
but Tokyo is getting back to normal now.
We wanted to also encourage the Tohoku region and we have decided to hold a barbeque party
on 4th of May at Showa Kinen Park.
Under great sunshine, 28 members got together and had a lot of fun drinking beer
and eating delicious meat, Yakisoba and rice balls.
The park itself was full of people even before the opening of the park
because it was the Golden Week holiday season.
The participants had a great time talking about various topics.
We hope for the fast recovery of Tohoku.
We are planning lots of fun events, so please participate in the future.
Spring is here! The time when the cherry-blossoms around Honan hall bloom
and signal the time for the annual Tokyo square dance club meeting.
Mr. Kunio Numata (the chairman) reported and approved the following.
Firstly the "2010 progress report " was presented as well as the accounting report
by Mr. Soneda (chief) which was inspected by Mr. Yamamoto.
And then, each committee chief gave reports on their respective activities.
Furthermore, the "new year activity plan" and the "new year budget plan"
were announced and approved.
Then we moved on to the election of the officers for the new year.
Mr. Itohara who is in charge of the election administration proceeded with the election process.
The president, the vice-presidents and the chiefs of each committee were selected carefully.
As a result, 17 committee chiefs were chosen.
| Newly-Elected Board & Committee Members 2011 | |
| Board & Committee | Officers |
| Adviser | Mr.Okiyoshi and Ms.Sugawara |
| President | Mr.Wada |
| Vice-President | Mr.Sugihara, Mr.Wakamatu & Mr.Hasegawa |
| Audit | Mr.Yamamoto and Mr.Sawamura |
| Planning | Ms.Nishi |
| General Affairs | Mr.Itohara |
| Public Relations | Mr.Sagara |
| Publicity | Mr.Numata |
| Snack | Ms.Kato |
| Accounting | Mr.Soneda |
| Promotion | Mr.Fujii |
| Event | Mr.Baba |
| International Friendship Promotion | Mr.Chi |
| Costume | Ms.Wada |
| Web-Page | Mr.Yaoko |
| Related Organizations | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan SD Liaison Conference | Mr.Wada and Mr.Sugihara |
| Japan SD Association | Mr.Wada, Mr.Sugihara, Mr.Wakamatu, Mr.Numata, Mr.Okiyoshi, Mr.Hasegawa |
| National FD Federation of Japan | Mr.Sugihara and Mr.Wakamatu |
| Tokyo Metropolitan FD Federation | Mr.Wada & Mr.Sugihara |
New Officers
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| Mr.Baba | Mr.Chin | Ms.Wada |
5th Taiwan Square Dance Convention
The captioned 5th [Taiwan SD Convention] was held splendidly
at "Ministry of Transportation's International Conference" near Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall,
over a period of two days, on April 9-10, 2011.
Those present were approx. 250 persons in total, including 52 Japanese.
Mr. & Mrs. Okiyoshi, Vice-President, attended the convention on behalf
of Japan SD Association (JSDA).
Besides various dance programs such as MS, PLUS, AD, C-1, RD and CW in two assembly halls,
the ceremony and sociable were held. In the ceremony,
Ms. Andrea Cheng, Chairman of SD Association of R.O.C.,
for the host organization gave some greeting to the attendance,
Mr. Okiyoshi and Mr. Wada (consultant of JSDA),
offered congratulations to those present. Then followed the exhibition performance.
Every attended Japanese club's banner was on display in the assembly hall,
and the circle of wonderful friendship and goodwill was in all glory among Japanese and Taiwanese.
Members of Japanes
Tokyo SDC's Callers Mr.Masaru
WadaMr.Kazusuke
OkiyosiMr.Hiroshi
YaokoMs.Keiko
Yaoko
Chairman of SD Association of R.O.C.
Ms.Andrea Cheng
Special Guest
Mr.Tony Oxendine
CEREMONY
Exhibition
Let's Dance!!
A costume committee : Michiko Okiyoshi
On January 29, we held a class of how to make a costume.
The participants including costume committee members were 18 people.
With the guidance of Shimizu, Yanase, guidance of Kageyama,
we made the models (a paper pattern) such as a shirt, costume (a dress),
the long dress and demonstrated to cut the piece of cloth.
These are the voices from the participants; I understood how to handle length
and breadth of the piece of cloth well!
The effective placement of the border handle came to be possible!
I challenge the design of the escargot, and they are looking forward to the outcome.
After the class, we had a reflection meeting and they hope to do not only the costume
but also a bodice or the class of the accessory.
It was splendid that we were able to talk willingly through such an opportunity.
Those who are interested in dressmaking, letfs get together! !
I hope therefll be more participates on the next time
and hope that we can spread our communication.
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The 62nd DoSaDo Party was held in Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on February 5.
There were no new faces for the Tokyo Square Dance Club
but a large number of members enjoyed participating in the event very much.
During the ceremony, we celebrated the graduation from the beginner's level for over 700 people.
Then we all danced and enjoyed the big party very much.
There were speeches by Matunaga-san of the Otori SDC and Isiguro-san of Kitakasai SDC.
We appreciate the hard work of the organizers of Tokyo-Metropolitan Square Dance Association.
Thank you for a wonderful day!
The lecturers
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New Dancers
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Ceremony
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Let's Dance
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