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Kabuki techniques
- Title
- Kabuki techniques [videorecording] / WCBS-TV.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : WCBS-TV, 1969 ; Kent, Conn. : Creative Arts Television Archive, c1995.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequence NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Overview of the special characteristics of Japan's kabuki theater, illustrated by pre-recorded performance excerpts and demonstrations by two noted kabuki actors, Onoe Baikō VII and Onoe Shōroku II. Baikō, a famous onnagata (player of women's roles), is seen onstage in full costume and makeup, and in street clothes in the television studio, performing an excerpt from Sukeroku in which he plays a courtesan taunting an old man. Shōroku, in turn, performs the old man's role among several examples of kata, movement sequences expressing a meaning, mood, or moment. Baikō depicts the virtuosic and expressive uses of the fan in kabuki dance, including the pouring and drinking of wine, a sequence in which Shōroku joins. After viewing an excerpt from General Kumagai's battle camp, filmed in the 1940s, Shōroku comments on the acting of Nakamura Kichiemon as the protagonist, and demonstrates his own interpretation. He and Baikō perform a battle between a lord and an evil demon. A sequence demonstrating a display of maximal speed and power is first played by Shōroku in the studio, then seen in full costume and makeup onstage.
- Series Statement
- Camera three
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Note
- Running time given as 29 min. on wrapper.
- Performer (note)
- Introduced by James Macandrew.
- Commentary by Faubion Bowers.
- Interviewees: Onoe Baikō VII, Onoe Shōroku II.
- Event (note)
- Originally telecast by WCBS-TV on the series Camera three in 1969.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-4615
- OCLC
- 45373145
- NYPY00-F833
- Title
- Kabuki techniques [videorecording] / WCBS-TV.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : WCBS-TV, 1969 ; Kent, Conn. : Creative Arts Television Archive, c1995.
- Series
- Camera three
- Event
- Originally telecast by WCBS-TV on the series Camera three in 1969.
- Performer
- Introduced by James Macandrew.Commentary by Faubion Bowers.Interviewees: Onoe Baikō VII, Onoe Shōroku II.
- Local Subject
- Dancers en travesti.Fan dances.Television. Camera three.
- Added Author
- Bowers, Faubion, 1917-1999, commentator.Onoe, Baikō, 1915-1995, interviewee, performer.Onoe, Shōroku, 1913-1989, interviewee, performer.Nakamura, Kichiemon, 1886-1954, performer.Macandrew, James, host.CBS Television Network.Creative Arts Television (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-4615