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Once More with Feeling: Teachers (Pt.1)
Zen Mountain Monastery Sumida River Rehearsals (Pt. 4) Contributed by Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate Word Photographs by Kevin Salfen Thursday, June 5, 2014 Richard Emmert—Artistic Director of Theatre Nohgaku and the Madwoman in TN’s Sunday performance of Sumida … Continue reading
Let Them Go
Zen Mountain Monastery Sumida River Rehearsals (Pt. 2) Contributed by Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate Word Photographs by Kevin Salfen Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Today was discipline: the first complete run-through of Sumida River with “blocking,” which is to … Continue reading
Posted in Performances, Sumida River
Tagged ashirai, れんしゅうする, 隅田川, kakeri, kevin salfen, meditation, nohkan, sitting zen, sumida river, theatre nohgaku, zazen, zen mountain monastery, zendo
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Zen Mountain Monastery “Sumida River” Rehearsals (Pt. 1)
Contributed by Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate Word Photographs by Kevin Salfen Monday, June 2, 2014 On a bright summer day in rural New York, the sweet smell of clover and the sound of medieval chant fill the air. … 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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Dancing the Crone
Contributed by Greg Giovanni [Editor’s note: Greg Giovanni is a poet/playwright/performance artist working in Philadelphia, PA. Theatre Nohgaku company member, Greg is the author of the English-language noh Pine Barrens. Greg contributes his thoughts about the shimai he danced this … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged greg giovanni, hirake, kata, miro ire, Noh Training Project, nohkan, sayu, shikake, shitome, uchi komi, Yamamba, 序破急
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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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James Joyce at Ichi-no-Tani with a Glass Harmonica
Contributed by Kevin Salfen Assistant Professor of Music History, University of the Incarnate Word This summer I heard the flute that Renshō heard and thought of Joyce’s “The Dead.” In early August in Bloomsburg’s heat and bugs I heard the … 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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