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Composing Zahdi, Pt. 2
Diagrams and Text Contributed by David Crandall Zahdi Date and Poppies photographs provided courtesy of Casey Preston [EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of the continuing conversation surrounding Carrie Preston’s Zahdi Dates and Poppies which premiered on March 30, 2016 at the … Continue reading
Composing Zahdi, Pt. 1
Photos and Contribution by David Crandall [EDITOR’S NOTE: Part of the continuing conversation surrounding Carrie Preston’s Zahdi Dates and Poppies, premiering on March 30, 2016 at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston.] In their delightful posts, Carrie and David S. both … Continue reading
Finding the Dog in Noh, and Leaving it Alone
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Ms. Preston provides some insights concerning her new work Zahdi Dates and Poppies, premiering on March 30, 2016 at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston. Please consider providing your support by visiting the project’s funding page.] Contributed by Carrie … Continue reading
Finding the Dog
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Crandall provides some thoughts concerning his composition of the score of Carrie Preston’s Zahdi Dates and Poppies, premiering on March 30, 2016 at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston. Image of painting provided by David Crandall. Please consider … Continue reading
Asleep in Jizo House
Contributed by David Crandall Photographs by Kevin Salfen [Editor’s note: in the below, Mr. Crandall discusses some of his experience while rehearsing for Sumida River, performed June 8, 2014, at the Zen Mountain Monastery.] A bamboo grove grows in front of … Continue reading
2014 Workshop Season
Since 2003 Theatre Nohgaku has hosted workshops for poets, playwrights and other writers, as well as musicians and performance artists to help them better understand Japanese noh and to assist them in using noh in their own artistic pursuits. We … Continue reading
Posted in Costume Workshop, Music Workshop, Workshops, Writer's Workshop
Tagged architectures of poetry and time, costume workshop, david crandall, fukuyama, hosho-ryu, kita-ryu, kotsuzumi, kyoto, monica bethe, music workshop, noh music, nohkan, oshima noh theatre, otsuzumi, poetry, richard emmert, sasaki noh workshop, sound and silence, spoken word, taiko, theatre of yugen, writer's workshop
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Pagoda kuse video
(Editor’s note: below video is the kuse section from Jannette Cheong’s english-language noh Pagoda. This video was shot during the 2011 Asia Tour at the National Noh Theatre, Tokyo.) Contributed by Tom O’Connor (Pagoda ji-utai member) The dance, the music, … Continue reading
Posted in English-language noh, Noh plays, Performances
Tagged chinese famine, david crandall, Eitaro Okura, elizabeth dowd, english-language noh, greg giovanni, Hitoshi Sakurai, james ferner, jannette cheong, john oglevee, jubilith moore, kotsuzumi, kuse, lluis valls, matt dubroff, Naoko Takahashi, national noh theatre, noh video, nohkan, Oshima Kinue, otsuzumi, pagoda, richard emmert, Ryoichi Kano, Ryoji Terada, Sasaki Tamon, Satoshi Tsukitaku, Teruhisa Oshima, tom o'connor
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Tama-no-Dan
Contributed by David Crandall INTRODUCTION: “Tama-no-Dan is a famous segment from the noh play Ama, which recounts how a diver (a woman of humble origins) has an affair with a high court official (Fujiwara no Fuhito) and bears him a … Continue reading
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