2005-09-15
Latest trends in presenting Traditional Japanese Arts
Over the past several years, the movement to rediscover Japanese culture has had the effect of bringing new audiences to the traditional performing arts...
Such figures as ONOE Kikunosuke in kabuki, TOYOTAKE Sakihodayu in bunraku, and SHIGEYAMA Munehiko in kyogen, who are all leading traditional performance artists at the peak of their youthful attractiveness in their teens and twenties, have been described by a new term, dengei aidoru (trad-arts star). Bookstores are enlivened by the primers and photo collections aimed at the young fans acquired by these performers.
Audiences have grown across generational lines, and the Noh theaters, the National Theatre, and the Kabuki-za are filled with a kind of energy that was not there before.
Unprecedented new activities have begun, as the Japan Arts Council, which operates the National Theatre, opened a Traditional Performance Arts Information Center in March 2003, the National Theatre is putting its collected materials into database form and working to make them publicly available using the Internet, and so on.
More: http://www.performingarts.jp/E/overview_art/1.html
Audiences have grown across generational lines, and the Noh theaters, the National Theatre, and the Kabuki-za are filled with a kind of energy that was not there before.
Unprecedented new activities have begun, as the Japan Arts Council, which operates the National Theatre, opened a Traditional Performance Arts Information Center in March 2003, the National Theatre is putting its collected materials into database form and working to make them publicly available using the Internet, and so on.
More: http://www.performingarts.jp/E/overview_art/1.html
An article by Kazumi Narabe, Journalist
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