TechPara

TechPara (テクパラ) is a variant dance of ParaPara. It is mainly danced to hyper techno and eurodance. It is important to point out that techno in the TechPara culture does not necessarily reffers to techno as musical genre, instead as a short to "techno parapara" or even generally speaking of dance music marketed as "techno". That distictionis aldo relevant because TechPara doesn't always is choreographed to techno, but to j-pop or even rock.

Juliana's Tokyo and the beginning

TechPara origins could be traced back to the Juliana's Tokyo opening in Japan and it's popularity in the early 1990s - at that time, a lot of house and rave genres were introduced and they became known among japanese clubbers as 'juliana's techno" (ジュリテク). In the Juliana's era, the dancing wasn't really called TechPara and was mainly freestyle. The symbol of Juliana's was the feather fan dancing. Fans were brought into TechPara because of Kyoto scene and it's geishas neighborhoods, were the dancing with fans (in Japanese, sensu 扇子) is a traditional art. Girls wearing bodycon and boas danced on the otachidai, driving the male crowds crazy.