The YOSAKOI SORAN FESTIVAL is a new type of dance festival which originated in 1992 in Hokkaido. The 10th Annual YOSAKOI SORAN FESTIVAL in 2001 was held from June 6 to 10 in Sapporo and consisted of 408 groups involving about 41,000 participant dancers. All participant groups design their own costume and their original style of dance combined with originally arranged Soran-bushi in order to express their originality. One of them, 'Shinkotoni-Tenburyuujin' is a dancing group intimately based on a regional society and tries to express its cultural background through its performance. In this paper, I am going to analyze the creative process of culture and identity constituted by community life, by which Shinkotoni people intend to combine their present life with their historical origins and social background by their cultural activities and movement. This can said to be true creation and succession of culture.
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