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Title: TEACH SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE IN SCOTLAND: Atsuko Clement

Reference number: 13707

Date: 2019

Director: d. Yushin Toda

Production company: Japan Desk Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 37.57 mins

Description: Interview with Atsuko Clement, a qualified Scottish Country Dance Teacher who is originally from Japan.

Credits: p. Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda, Japan Desk Scotland
comm. w. Yushin Toda
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. Yushin Toda
cast Atsuko Clement, Moira Reekie, and the participants at the Demonstration Class held in Edinburgh in January 2014

Shotlist: Filmmaker's Synopsis:

Atsuko Clement, originally from Japan, is a qualified teacher of Scottish Country Dance. When she visited Scotland for the first time, she attended a summer school for Scottish Country Dance. “Others offered me their hands naturally. I was led to my position naturally, and I was made to dance naturally, even though I didn’t know the dance well.” She was surprised because “in Japan, if you don’t know the sequence, you shouldn’t dance.” This first impression of Scottish Dance seems to make her teach how to move hands, in detail, as a teacher.

Scenes from her Demonstration Class held in Edinburgh in January 2014 are extensively used in the film.

The interviews were carried out in January and April 2014.