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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:44 pm
Just as a stream of cool air swept through the room to her warm cheeks from the window, she let her fan be lifted, changing it from her left to her right hand, almost as though it was a sakura petal caught in a sudden gust of wind.
Up, it rose in her fingers like a stream of water, slowing as she drew the fan across her face. Making an even slower rotation in a counter-clockwise direction, she let her fan drift about her head, using it to accent her face, especially her strangely blue-violet eyes, before coming to a stop facing the patron, geisha, and maiko of the room as the fan drifted down the column of her throat.
Suddenly she was no longer a gentle breeze coaxing sakura from the branches of trees. She was now a meek girl, holding a single sakura to her like a wishing charm.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:51 pm
Following Mizu, Tora gently thrust her hands upward and moved the fan into the other hand. Tora spun in a counterclock wise position fluttering the fan above her face. She stopped with Mizu and looked out at the audiance in the room letting the fan slowly drop to her throat. As she ended, Tora looked like a girl who'd just caught a sakura blossom and was holding it genlty in her hands... just after a wishful kiss.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:58 pm
Bringing the spread fan softly upwards to cover her face, her eyes flickered to Tora as if to tell her that this would be their finale. Tilting the fan outward so that her face was once more visible, she blew against the fan, letting it float forward as though on small, spiraling currents of air as the girl she was portraying let her breath carry the petal to a far-off lover.
Her arms outspread, she sank into a crouch bringing her hands to cover her face in a characteristic Noh dancing bow. Mother...did dancing feel like this for you? she wondered, a shy smile curving her delicately painted lips. Was it this exhiliarating and yet beautiful inside? She sent Tora a bright smile. The senior maiko seemed so poised dancing a dance that she was not completely familiar with that Mizu was nearly overcome in her admiration.
((i need to schedule a trip to japan so i can personally thank my old Noh master...if not for him and those lessons i'd have been a serious sitting duck))
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:05 pm
Tora brought the fan to her face and tilted it forward, as Mizu did. She curved her lips gently and blew a puff of air on it. She spread her arms and ended in Noh Dancing bow.
Tora's heart was racing, not with fear, but with acomplishment. She flashed a wild smile toward Mizu, hoping this would be the start of a great thing. She would LOVE to perform with her again. Next time they would practice together and they'd be even more polish. Tora dared thought this was a superb performance for their first time and not practicing it.
((OOC: We did it! YAY! Heehee =^w^=!))
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:10 pm
Seeing Tora's smile she gave the other girl a cheeky wink. It was like saying 'we did it!' without actually speaking the words aloud. Rising to her feet she thanked everyone for their indulgence and took a seat by her Onee-sama once more.
"I want to do that again Tora-chan," she confessed in the softest of whispers, pitching her voice so only Tora would hear her blushing admittance.
((that was fun!! i hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did...))
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:15 pm
Tora bowed and thanked everyone and took her seat beside Mizu. "I'd love to as well," Tora mouthed back squinching her nose and smiling. She sat and waited to hear what the others said. She did hope they enjoyed it. She smiled to herself knowing her grandmother had seen her first dance. "When I arrive to my Okiya tonight, I MUST wright Mother and tell her of my transformation... and my first official dance as a Maiko."
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:37 am
*being silent from admiring the dancing that was going on, Jusu is smiling at the performers while sitting there, leaning his right hand against his knee, his left hand gently rubbing his goatee while observing and studying the moves close and carefully with his eyes, slowly nodding to himself to admit that these girls know what they're doing*
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:52 am
Yokome entered the teashouse once again. She removed her shoes and said, 'Kombanwa, how is everyone this evening?' She took a place at the table and sat down.
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:57 am
((OOC: Sorry for the control, but the maiko danced so quickly! XP))
Sayuri smiled as the two maiko finished their dance and she ended her song, as well. Kyoku's chords ended at the same time as Sayuri's...in perfect harmony.
"I am impressed," Sayuri whispered only loud enough for Kyoku to hear. "I believe we may have some competition this year at the dance."
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:50 am
Makoto's eyes where wide the entire time the girls where dancing. Oh my, how can I ever do something like that? she thought. A long lock of her hair fell over the side of her face, she grabed that lock and started to pull over it one hand after the other, it seemed to be a nervous habbit she had. I'll have to study very hard at dance class so that I may be even half as good as the two of them.
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:45 am
Tora noticed all of the looks she and Mizu were getting. "I think they liked it!" She smiled inwardly.
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:55 am
((sorry about going so quickly! sweatdrop ))
Mizu smiled back and blushed at the praise they were receiving. Maybe I ought to do something like this more often...it's really good practice...
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:02 am
((dont mind at all, they did great))
"I think we might!" Kyoku wispered back, leaning her shaminsen against the wall behind her. "Why dont we go back now Sayuri-chan." Kyoku stood and then offered a helpful hand to her little sister and friend.
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:39 am
Makoto continued to pull at her hair combing through it with her fingers still scared and worried she could never be that good ever.
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