Kagura is dance offered to the kami rather than performed for an audience, and dancers face the sanctuary. The tradition traces it to Ame-no-Uzume outside the cave. Two broad kinds exist: mikagura, the formal court version performed at the imperial palace and at Ise, and satokagura, the village forms, which are vastly more various and more alive. Iwami kagura in Shimane and Takachiho kagura in Miyazaki are the famous ones: masked, costumed, accompanied by flute and taiko, and performed through the night in a village hall or a shrine stage, with thirty-three numbered pieces in the Takachiho cycle and an audience that drinks, eats and dozes through the slow sections and wakes for Yamata no Orochi. Some of it is broad comedy and some is genuinely frightening. Takachiho's yokagura is designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property and is performed nightly in an abbreviated tourist version and in full only in winter, by the villages themselves.