This contest began three years ago to deepen exchanges among dancers in various places, and in fact this year, more than 200 teams of eight groups from Hyogo prefecture and Saitama prefecture and others participated.

Each group was wearing a piece of costumes and showed a dance that exhilarated his taste, such as unique music and production, according to the rhythm peculiar to Awa dance called "scrub".

The group of Shimabara-shi, Nagasaki prefecture, which is the first participant from Kyushu, is the child's dance and supple female dance with the energy from the big pyroclastic flow of Unzen Fugendake to the revival of the area I expressed it.

At the end of the contest, "Totorodori" where all groups dance together was showcased, coloring the stage gorgeously with various colored costumes and unimpeded performance.

A woman in his thirties who came to visit Tokushima City for family appreciation was talking "It was awesome to enjoy it differently from the Awa dance in Tokushima as it danced with the features of each area dancing." It was.