{"id":121928,"date":"2026-07-03T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:40:18","slug":"awa-odori-japanese-folk-dance-performed-at-brussels-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/121928\/","title":{"rendered":"Awa Odori Japanese Folk Dance Performed at Brussels Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Culture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Culture<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=World\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tJul 3, 2026 20:06 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Brussels, July 3 (Jiji Press)&#8211;&#8220;Awa Odori&#8221; Japanese folk dance was performed at a pre-show event for the Ommegang annual traditional festival in Brussels on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is participating in this year&#8217;s festival as the guest country of honor to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the two nations&#8217; diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p>The audience applauded the performance by professional dancers at the Grand-Place, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the Belgian capital.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Ommegang is also scheduled to be held Friday, when another Japanese folk dance, &#8220;Soran Bushi,&#8221; will be performed by students of the Japanese school of Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Ommegang, a popular summer attraction in Brussels, features cavalry, flag bearers and musicians marching in medieval costumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3033934.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"3033934\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3033934.jpg\" data-libid=\"3033934\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Culture World Jul 3, 2026 20:06 (JST) Brussels, July 3 (Jiji Press)&#8211;&#8220;Awa Odori&#8221; Japanese folk dance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,34338],"class_list":["post-121928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-jiji-press"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116857983901253167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}