Seattle Bon Odori - Tankou Bushi 2009

Tankou Bushi - the Coal Miner's Dance. After a couple of minutes, the music failed. That didn't faze the ardent dancers on the uphill half of Main Street. They continued with the beat: dig, dig, dig, dig, yoisho, yoisho, back, back, push, push, push, safe, and clap. They kept the dance alive until the music came back on!! Great team spirit - Seattle Bon Odori dancers - you are awesome!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bon
• Odori
• Seattle
• Seafair
• Tanko
• Bushi
• Tankou
• Japanese
• Dance
• Obon

[smashahashi77]

Those ardent dancer were led by their sensei Tyler. He was trailed by his loyal followers, the Bergano, Donahue, and Takahashi family. We will be back next year!!!

[sanbyakko17]

Didn't know it was Tyler, but I'm not surprised. Great job, Tyler - you made it so much more fun for everybody! Thanks and see you all next year!

[top1997]

oh,tanko bushi...

[donahmike]

thanks for posting this video! that was such a cool experience when we helped keep the dance going :D thanks to our sensei Tyler we were able to have such a great time. We're definitely coming back for next year's bon odori and hopefully we'll have even more fun :D