Mapeh 8 quarter 4

• Peking Opera


  Chinese opera
• Peking Opera training


  1. Pupils hand picked at a young age by a teacher

  2. Trained for seven years

  3. On contract from the child's parents

  4. After 1911, training took place in more formally organized schools
• Roles and Characters in Peking Opera

  • Xiaosheng - Actors involved with beautiful women due to handsome image
  • Wusheng - Martial character for roles involving combat
  • Laosheng - Dignified older role
  • Dan - Any female role
  • Laodan - Old woman
  • Wudan - Martial women
  • Daomadan - Young female warriors
  • Qingyi - Virtuous and elite women
  • Hvadan - Vivacious and unmarried women
• Peking Opera training took place in more formally organized schools

  1911
• In the word kabuki

  Ka-means song

  Bu- means dance

  Ki- means act
• 4 main characters of peking opera

  1. Sheng- male characters
  2. Dan- female characters
  3. Jing- painted face
  4. Chou- being ugly
• Hanamichi


  • A flower path a wall way which extends into the audience via which dramatic entrances and exits are made
  • Okuni also performs on a hanamichi stage with her entourage
• Kogakudo

  • Have stages both in front of the audience and along the sides
  • Help create a bond between the actors and viewers
• Suppon


  • A platform that rises from below the stage
• Hanamicho


  • A walk way that cuts through the audience seating area to connect the stage with the back of the theater
  • Magicians and supernatural beings often make their entrances from trap doors in the hanamichi
  • Some stages have 17 trapdoors
• Revolving stage


  • Muwaro butal
• The three main categories of Kabuki plays

  • Jidaimono (historical or pre-Sengoku period stories)
  • Sewamono (domestic or post-Sengoku stories focused on commoners)
  • Shosagoto (dance pieces)
• Jidaimono


  • Historical or pre-Sengoku period stories in the context of major events in Japanese history
  • Strict censorship laws during the Edo Period prohibited the representation of contemporary events and particularly prohibited criticizing the shogunate or casting it in a bad light, although enforcement varied greatly over the years
• Sewamono


  • Domestic or post-Sengoku stories focused primarily upon commoners (townspeople and peasants)
  • Generally related to themes of family drama and romance
• Binislakan background

  • Lingayen in Pangasinan means having to look backward and upward
  • Derived from "Li-King -Tung", a chinese word given to the name Lingayen
  • Dancers look backward or upward in some of the movements
  • Use two sticks to produce rhythms comitating the chopsticks used by the chinese in eating
• Dance


  • Mani boc danced this to commemorate the stay of Limahong, a Chinese pirate who built his kingdom here
• Lingayen in Pangasinan means having to look backward and upward
• Lingayen was derived from "Li-King -Tung", a chinese word given to the name Lingayen, the capital of pangasinan, by the Chinese settlers of this place a long time ago
• The dancers look backward or upward in some of the movements
• They use two sticks to produce rhythms comitating the chopsticks used by the chinese in eating
• Sakuting


  Refers to rhythmic sticks producing the accompaniment for the dance
• Dance


  • A dance of the ethnic people living on the western side of the cordilleras before the Americans coming to our country
  • During christmas, young boys and girls acompanied by their elders would go to the low lands, especially in Abra and Ilocos Norte to dance in front of the houses and ask for gifts
  • These young children hold sticks, one on each hand and strike the together to make their dance livelier
  • The homes would give them money, home made delicacies and other things
  • The rhythmic sounds produced by the stick attracted other children and also adults and they also learned the dance
• Sakuting is an ethnic term that refers to the rhythmic sticks producing the accompaniment for the dance
• Sua-ku-sua


  My Pomelo Tree
• Dance


  • The movements of the dance compare sua's gentle leaves, slender branches, attractive fruits, and fragrant flowers to a lady
  • During performance, the couples sing while flapping two white fans which represent the leaves rustling in the wind
• The Tausug of sulu in the southern Philippines, though known as fearsome warriors are also better known as sturdy sea farers and hardy Farmers
• The performers, especially women, dance with faces thickly covered with ground rice powder. Their eyebrows and side burns are enhanced with soot for aesthetic purposes
• Extensive orchards are planted with coconuts and pomelos and fields with staples like rice and root crops. Pomelo fruits serve as an important source of income of the people of Sulu
• Their dependence on pomelo fruits for their livelihood inspired them to create sug-ku-sug dance
• Dance Researcher: Ramon A. Obusan
• Dance Culture: Muslim- lowland (coastal)
• Smoking


  Practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke is breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream
• Cigarette


  A thin cylinder of finely-cut tobacco rolled in paper, for smoking
• Tobacco


  A tall, leafy plant, originally grown in south and central America, but now cultivated throughout the world
• Dangers of cigarette smoking


  • High blood pressure
  • Heart disease
  • Body odor
• Other health effects of cigarette smoking


  • Bad breath
  • Bronchitis
  • Emphysema
  • Pneumonia
  • Asthma
  • Cancer
• Mainstream smoke


  The smoke that a smoker directly inhales
• Sidestream smoke


  The smoke that comes out of the lighted end of a cigarette or pipe, also called second-hand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
• Third-hand smoke


  Smoke left for a long time on sofa, beddings, pillow and other objects, also called residual tobacco smoke (RTS)
• Alcohol


  A colorless, bitter-tasting substance that humans have been consuming since ancient times, comes from plants that underwent fermentation