Great Lakes Taiko Center (GLTC) #MIBON2024 Preview in Ann Arbor, MI:
Taiko Drumming Performances & MI Bon Dance Workshop
This Sunday afternoon event is free and open to the public, featuring taiko drumming performances and bon dances from our upcoming MI Bon Summer Festival event on SUN August 11th 2024 at Cranbrook.
Come watch members of our GLTC Taiko Arts Collective share some traditional and contemporary taiko drumming pieces, and then join our interactive workshop session in which you can learn more about Bon odori or folk dances (such as the traditional Tanko Bushi or our own Michigan Ondo).
Who can join? All are welcome to join this workshop with *no experience necessary* and fun for all ages (as well as high school and older participants who want to volunteer for the MI Bon dancers team at the festival). Here’s a look at last year’s participants in our MI Bon Dance Workshop 2023:
MI Bon Dance Workshop 2023 participants dancing to Tokyo Ondo, one of the Bon dances featured at GLTC #MIBON2023 (video: July 23rd 2023 at Rudolf Steiner HS, Ann Arbor, MI)
Contact us at GLTC <gltc@greatlakestaiko.org> if you’re interested in joining or finding out more info about the public Bon Dance workshop and/or the volunteer MI Bon dance team.
Cranbrook Japanese Garden in Summer, July 16, 2019; Photography by Eric Franchy, courtesy of Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
🏮 Excited about #MIBON2024? This year’s MI Bon Summer Festival 2024 event is our Second Japanese Bon Festival at Cranbrook on Sunday, August 11th (1:00-5:30pm) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.