Author : Tomie Hahn
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819568359
DVD contains: Examples of performances.
Author : Mark Holborn
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Aperture
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
In Butoh Ethan Hoffman creates virtually a new genre of photographic theater and gives us an invaluable contribution to the literature of contemporary dance and theater. 100 full-color photographs.
Author : Marcelle Azra Hincks
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Dance
ISBN :
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448103673
An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. 'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance' Observer
Author : Kasyo Matida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136208062
First published in 2005. A complete introduction to traditional Japanese dance, this text will delight readers with its lively descriptions and beautiful illustrations. Covering subjects including dance varieties, Kabuki dance, modern dance movements based on Kabuki dance and the influence of Western dance, this book will undoubtedly be of interest to travellers, dancers and anyone curious about the culture of Japan.
Author : Damiano Fina
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category :
ISBN :
The days of hunting and dancing around the fire are still in our cells, along with ancient world views. Alchemy was not born as a science for its own sake, as we know it today, but it bloomed from the conquest of matter through fire and guarded the initiatory secret that unites humanity with sky. In "Dance and Alchemy" Damiano Fina takes dance back to its origins to illuminate its future, without neglecting the history of performance at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. According to the author, today it is necessary to bring the performing arts back to the sacred and ritual: "There is an immeasurable distance between those who participate in the sacred ritual and those who, instead, enjoy as an aesthete the beauty or horror of scenery, music, dance and opera. Not only is it fundamental to bring the performance back to its ritual origins, but it is also necessary to look for a way to restore the relationship with the sacred in contemporary society, which has desacralized its festivities, its rites of passage and its relationship with the universe." In order to restore this link between the sacred and the profane, art must take an interest in pedagogy. Thus the FÜYA method was born, because dance and performance are educational.
Author : Rebecca Copeland
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781734495058
"I jostled her shoulder and noticed when I did that her skin was cold to the touch....her entire torso was covered in tattoos from her collar bone to the midline of her thighs. All were of kimono motifs-fans, incense burners, peonies, and scrolls." This ghastly scene was the last thing Ruth Bennett expected to encounter when she agreed to translate a novel by a long-forgotten Japanese writer. Returning to her childhood home in Kyoto had promised safety, solitude, and diversion from the wounds she encountered in the U.S. But Ruth soon finds the storyline in the novel leaking into her everyday life. Fictional characters turn out to be real, and the past catches up with the present in an increasingly threatening way. As Ruth struggles to unravel the cryptic message hidden in the kimono tattoo, she is forced to confront a vicious killer along with her own painful family secrets.
Author : Daniel Gregory Mason
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Kaeko Chiba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000781747
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to chado, the Japanese tea ceremony. Unlike other books on the subject, which focus on practice or historical background or specific issues, this book considers the subject from multiple perspectives. It discusses Japanese aesthetics and philosophy, outlines how the tea ceremony has developed, emphasizing its strong links to Zen Buddhism and the impact of other religion influences, and examines how chado reflects traditional gender and social status roles in Japan. It goes on to set out fully the practice of chado, exploring dress, utensils, location – the garden and the tea house – and the tea itself and accompanying sweets. Throughout, the book is illustrated both with images and with examples of practice. The book will be of interest to a wide range of people interested in chado – university professors and students, tourists and people interested in traditional Japanese arts.
Author : Katherine Mezur
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472126946
In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.
