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CNMI Domatusri does well at Domonnaka Festival
The CNMI Domatsuri team together with the CNMI’s 2014 Liberation Queen and Saipan Mayor Marian Tudela brought cheers to visitors of this year’s 16th Annual Domonnaka Festival held recently in Nagoya Japan.
The annual cultural event took place from Aug. 27 to 29 and is also called the Domatsuri Festival. It featured dance troupe members from all over Japan as well as teams from the CNMI and Taiwan.
According to Pacific Development Inc. director Gordon Marciano, the CNMI Domatsuri team performed—along with 40,000 dancers under 209 teams—in front of 2.2 million visitors.
Marciano said that the visitors watched the performances on 20 different locations across Nagoya.
Tudela along with two her staff accompanied Preschanel Camacho, 2014 Liberation Queen, during the event and invited the people of Nagoya to visit the CNMI. Tudela met with the mayor of Nagoya as well and appeared on one of the city’s newspapers. Photos of the CNMI dance team also ended up in different news companies from across Japan.
The CNMI Domatsuri team has been successfully attending the event under the Marianas Visitors Authority the past 13 years when the program was introduced to MVA through PDI’s Chamolinian Cultural Village, Inc.
“This is to ensure that we continue to foster the goodwill relation between Nagoya and the CNMI through its cultural exchange program. The CNMI had a special team that was featured in Domonnaka, the mass dance that has become the signature song for all Nagoya, and Nagoya appreciates the CNMI’s presence in the biggest dance festival,” Marciano said.
Marciano wants to extend his appreciation on behalf of PDI for the sponsors. They are IT&E, Pacific Trading Co., Chamolinian Cultural Village Inc., KKMP, Saipan Mayor’s Office, and MVA.
“It is one program that MVA spends to send dancers and in return the CNMI receives millions of free promotion and exposure for the CNMI,” he said.
