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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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Newsletter, Vol. 7, Nos. 3-4
The newest edition of our newsletter is now available. Please click above, or on the image to download the PDF. In this issue we’ve got an article covering our 2012 Costume Workshop, an article by Traditional Theatre Training founder Jonah … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Costume Workshop, Newsletter Articles, Noh Music, Performances
Tagged atsmori performance, bloomsburg pa, diego pallecchia, ezra pound, fukuyama, instrumental tone-color, jonah salz, joyce s. lim, kensuku tsutsui, kevin salfen, kotsuzumi, lian hearn, michael gardener, monica bethe, noh costume workshop, noh in books & on film, noh music analysis, Noh Training Project, nohkan, oshima nohgakudo, otsuzumi, richard emmert, sasaki noh workshop, spectral analysis, taiko, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku blog, theatre nohgaku newsletter, traditional theatre training kyoto, ttt, uzawa hisa, w. b. years, women in noh
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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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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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The Look of the Feel (Pt. IV)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part IV of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) Figure 1 Tone-color Profile of the Kotsuzumi Although the kotsuzumi is smaller in size than the ōtsuzumi, figure 1 shows that the pitch … 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. III)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part III of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) Nohkan There are numerous scholarly sources describing the construction and basic principles of the noh flute, so I will forego such commentary here. … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged funabenkei, hagoromo, hishigi, kotsuzumi, ma, matsukaze, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, noh theatre, nohkan, otsuzumi, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, theatre nohgaku, yoin
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Drums of the Moment
Contributed by Matthew Dubroff For this summer’s Noh Training Project (NTP) performance of Atsumori, I began preparing one year in advance to play the kotsuzumi (small shoulder drum). I practiced the last half of the play under the guidance of … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Noh Music, Performances
Tagged atsumori, ôkawa, kakegoe, kiri, kotsuzumi, kuse, matthew dubroff, noh, Noh Training Project, nohkan, Oshima Kinue, oto-ko-mai, otokomai, otsuzumi, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku, utaibon
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Nohkan
Contributed by David Surtasky My other role in Atsumori is playing the nohkan (transverse bamboo flute.) I’ve never encountered an instrument that seemed so temperamental concerning one’s inner state. The least tension, anxiety or distraction leads to poor performance. This … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Noh Music, Performances
Tagged ashirai, atsumori, bamboo flute, fue, hishigi, hiyashi, kotsuzumi, Noh Training Project, nohkan, otsuzumi, theatre nohgaku
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