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Learning to Stand
Contributed by John Oglevee Photographs by David Surtasky Japanese Textiles and the Art of Sculpting Kimono, Theatre Nohgaku’s Costume Workshop June 15 2014, Fukuyama component So goes another successful “kneeling” as I emerge from working backstage at the Oshima Noh … Continue reading
Posted in Costume Workshop, Workshops
Tagged 2014 costume workshop, bloomsburg pa, blue moon over memphis, dai-sho, examining details, fukuyama, hayashi, ji-gashira, kakegoe, kakitsubata, kaneko kyoichi, kikaigashima, matsui akira, nagashima shigeru, narita natsushi, Noh Training Project, omura sadamu, Oshima Kinue, Oshima Masanobu, richard emmert, sasaki noh robe, Sesshōseki, Shunkan, sugi shintaro, takigi noh, taniguchi masatoshi, theatre nohgkau, 大島, 佐々木能衣装
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Coming Full Circle
Contributed by Deborah Brevoort [Editor’s note: Deborah Brevoort is a playwright and musical theatre librettist/lyricist. An alumna of New Dramatists, she is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders (a group of individual artists dedicated to international theatre exchange.) She is … Continue reading
Time and its Double: An Alchemical Inquiry
Contributed by Michael Gardiner That the process of the universal or truth—they are one and the same thing—is transversal relative to all available instances of knowledge means that the universal is always an incalculable emergence, rather than a describable structure. … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged ars nova, elliot carter, hayashi, issei, kotsuzumi, noh, noh music, otsuzumi, pierre boulez rituel, sashi, transversal system, transversal time, unmatched rhythm, waki
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Beyond the Agemaku (揚幕)
Contributed by David Surtasky Oshirabe. The flute and drums begin, unseen by the audience, their aural sigils reach out in preface to the story about to unfold. In a line the musicians sit, just beyond the edge of the agemaku. … Continue reading
Funabenkei, Final Scene
Video of the spirit of Tomomori attacking Yoshitsune and Benkei in their boat. The final scene from the takigi noh performance of “Funabenkei,” Bloomsburg Town Park, 2009. Performed as part of the Noh Training Project under the auspices of the … Continue reading
Posted in Performances
Tagged benkei, funabenkei, hayashi, kotsuzumi, noh, noh music, Noh Training Project, nohkan, otsuzumi, taiko, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku, tomomori, yoshitsune
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The Look of the Feel (Pt. II)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part II of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) To look at the musical colors of noh I will use spectrographic images, which allow one to discuss in detail elements of the … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged formants, funabenkei, hagoromo, hayashi, kakegoe, matsukaze, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, nohkan, otsuzumi, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, theatre nohgaku
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Mae-shite
Contributed by David Surtasky My role is mae-shite. Lead actor of the first half, one of the grasscutters. In a traditional noh, the mae-shite and nochi-shite would be the same person, but in our production we’ve divided the role between … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Performances
Tagged atsumori, hayashi, kumagae no jiro naozane, mae-shite, nochi-shite, noh, Noh Training Project, Renshô, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku
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