San Francisco Awakko-Ren is a Bay Area dance group founded in 2011. Its main focus is Awa-Odori, a traditional dance from Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. Awa-Odori is one of the biggest dance festivals in Japan – celebrated in the streets of Tokushima City every August for over 400 years. The members of Awakko-Ren wanted to form a group for people who loved to dance Awa-Odori.