Nō and kyōgen in the contemporary world:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu, Hawaii University of Hawai'i Press ©1997
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Beschreibung:"Selected essays originally presented at the international conference ... held on the Mānoa campus of the University of Hawai'i, from 4 to 6 May 1989"--Preface. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
How do classical, highly codified theater arts retain the interest of today's audiences and how do they grow and respond to their changing circumstances? The eight essay presented here investigate these questions, examining the contemporary significance of the "classic" no and kyogen theater to Japan and the West. They explore the theatrical experience from many perspectives - those of theater, music, dance, art, literature, linguistics, philosophy, religion, history, and sociology. This volume marks the first time the contemporary position of classic Japanese theater has been so broadly investigated
The first group of essays addresses the values that serious dance-drama no and lively kyogen comedy hold for contemporary audiences around the world. Richard Emmert locates a definition of "no-ness" in the physical qualities of the actor's performance - qualities that facilitate artistic transmission and hence preservation. Arthur H. Thornhill III focuses on yugen as an aesthetic idea. Royall Tyler examines the plays as expressions of religious beliefs and religious points of view and suggests that, important as religious content is to the plays, it is not necessary to understand Buddhist doctrine to respond. The adaptation of the theater arts in Japan and the West is discussed in the second group of essays. Nagao Kazuo interprets the long history of no as a series of "misunderstandings" or "misconceptions" (gokai) whereby performers attempted to recover an unknown (and unknowable) past. Tom Hare's essay takes up Zeami's understanding of the process of artistic transmission. Domoto Masaki suggests that no was drastically altered when it changed from a dialogue drama to a music-dance drama early in its development
Essays and interviews in the final group draw on contributors' personal experiences to describe a wide range of recent interactions between no and kyogen and Western theater. Kyogen master artist Nomura Mansaku, who was interviewed toward the end of a year-long period of teaching at the University of Hawai'i, comments on the aims and process of teaching American students to perform kyogen at the University of Washington, at the University of Hawai'i, and at his studio in Tokyo. No master artist Nomura Shiro, who also taught at Hawai'i, discusses the qualities of no he tried to convey in his teaching. J. Thomas Rimer's essay analyzes the responses by American audiences to Japanese theater tours and to American-Japanese fusion productions. Jonah Salz addresses the case of foreigners studying no or kyogen, likening it to second-language acquisition, a gradual building up of competence through continued practice and training
Part I: Values of Nō and Kyōgen in contemporary society -- - Expanding Nō's horizons: considerations for a new Nō perspective - Richard Emmert -- - Yūgen after Seami - Arthur H. Thornhill III -- - The Waki-Shite relationship in Nō - Royall Tyler -- - Part II: Adaptation of Nō and Kyōgen to contemporary audiences -- - A return to essence through misconception: from Zeami to Hisao - Nagao Kazuo -- - Nō changes - Tom Hare -- - Dialogue and monologue in Nō - Dōmoto Masaki -- - Part III: Encounters with the West -- - Experiments in Kyōgen - Nomura Mansaku -- - Contemporary audiences and the pilgrimage to Nō - J. Thomas Rimer -- - Teaching the paradox of Nō - Nomura Shirō -- - Pidgin-Creole performance experiment and the emerging entre-garde - Jonah Salz
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 249 pages)
ISBN:0585285551
0824818105
9780585285559
9780824818104

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