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Title

Nō theatre transversal / Stanca Scholz-Cionca, Christopher Balme (eds.).

Publication

München : Iudicium, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Scholz-Cionca, Stanca
• Balme, Christopher B.

Description

238 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Nō is the Japanese theatre form that has had the most profound influence on the Western stage, especially on its experimental and avantgarde forms. The list of writers and directors who studied nō, whether as texts, or in performance, reads like a Who's Who of Western modernism. But nō itself, confronted by modernity and shaken by identity crises, has oscillated between extreme conservatism on the one hand and periods of openness and renewal on the other. This volume, which is based on the international symposium Nō Theatre Transversal held in Trier in 2006, investigates these complex phenomena of inter- and transcultural entwinement. Combining historical, theoretical and practical perspectives, the book and its authors provide a unique, interdisciplinary approach and an international perspective on a fascinating theatrical form."--taken from back cover.

Subject

• Nō > Congresses
• Theater > Japan > Congresses
• Nō plays > Appreciation > Western countries > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers presented at an international symposium held in Trier on March 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Christopher Balme and Stanca Scholz-Cionca -- Chapter One. Crises and Modern Identities. Dancing on a moving train : Nō between two wars / Shinko Kagaya -- Two new nō plays written during World War II / Mae J. and Richard J. Smethurst -- New plays in wartime : Nō and kabuki / James R. Brandon -- Under the burden of nō : Community life in Kurokawa and ritual nō performances / Eike Grossmann -- Chapter Two. Reformation and Renewal. On the principle of jo-ha-kyū in contemporary nō theatre / Mikio Takemoto -- What features distinguish nō from other performing arts? / Reiko Yamanaka -- New plays (shinsaku nō) as an engine of renewal. From the experiments of Mei no kai to the staging of Shiranui / Ken'ichi Kasai -- Performing shinsaku nō / Talking with Rokurō Umewaka -- On the characteristics of newly composed nō plays (shinsaku nō) / Sachiko Oda -- Between self-empowerment and discrimination : Women in nō today / Barbara Geilhorn -- Reflections on performing for the international nō symposium / Hisa Uzawa -- Chapter Three. Japanese and Western Appropriations. The actor's body in nō and contemporary theatre. On the work of Ren'niku Kōbō / Akira Okamoto -- English nō and Theatre Nohgaku - the how and the why / Richard Emmert -- Yugen for western audiences / Libby Zilber -- 'Mistook sign' - Australian responses to nō / Peter Eckersall -- Between poetry and 'théâtre lyrique' : Nō and the boundaries of genre / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- 'Too Close for Comfort' : Benjamin Britten's 'Curlew River' and the reception of nō after 1945 / Christopher Balme -- Interculturality or exoticism? Music and dramatic structure in the opera 'Silkkirumpu' based on the nō 'Aya no tsuzumi' / Juliane Weigel -- Crossing borders in the presentation of nō through multimedia / Helen S. E. Parker -- Contributors.

ISBN

9783891297971 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 310617648
• SCSB-12624237

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library