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Art & Culture 4 months ago
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Panggung Maestro spotlights West Sumatra’s ancestral arts
Through rare performances, sacred instruments and master artists brought from remote highland villages, the annual performance reveals West Sumatra’s living heritage, its ancestral music, dance and philosophy, as well as the elders who continue to safeguard it.
Sports 3 years ago
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How a Czech football hooligan became a UFC champion, via Japan
Jiri Prochazka was a football hooligan in his native Czech Republic until martial arts and an ancient Japanese text inspired him to turn from street fighting to cage fighting -- and become a UFC world champion.
Entertainment 3 years ago
Seattle exhibit focuses on the philosophy of Bruce Lee
After a pandemic-induced delay, a permanent exhibition focused on Bruce Lee's philosophy is opening at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle, the United States, with support of the Bruce Lee Foundation.
Lifestyle 3 years ago
Modern knights: Indonesians study historical European martial arts with Gwaith-i-Megyr
"Martial arts" often invokes mental images of a Shaolin monk swinging his staff, a karateka performing the kata or a Muay Thai fighter stomping the ground. For some, however, martial arts also come in the form of medieval European disciplines.
Lifestyle 4 years ago
Samurai dance teacher moves online as Tokyo Olympics bans foreign spectators
When the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee decided last year that the Games would be postponed, martial artist Koshiro Minamoto scrapped his plan of teaching foreign tourists and began conducting his samurai classes online.
World 5 years ago
Japan's ninja arts hold key to survival, says first winner of graduate degree
The mystique of Japan's once-feared covert warriors, spread by films and fiction, is embodied today in the world's first winner of a master's degree in ninja studies, who also grows his own crops, just as many of his predecessors did.
