Arts

• Kabuki - Traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in a highly stylized manner.
• KA = song
• BU = dance
• KI = skill
• IZUMO OKUNI - a female dancer who had been an attendant at theGrand Shrine of Izumo, achievedpopularity with parodies ofBuddhist prayers.
• 1629 - banned woman from performing.
• 1652 - a type of kabuki where in young boys dressed as woman performed the programmed was oppressed.
• BUGAKU - a dance ceremony of the imperial court.
• NOH - Kabuki derived

  much of its material
• JORURI - a puppet theater (17th century)
• KYOGEN - sketches that provide comic interludes during Noh.
• National Theater - Where regular performances are held in Tokyo.
• Kabuki Theater – Kabuki- za (2010)
• PEKING OPERA

  “most influential opera in China”
• Peking Opera is known as PINGJU or JINGXI.
• 1790

  It was born when the ”Four Great Anhui Tropes” brought Anhui opera (Huiji) to Beijing as a birthday gift for the Qianlong Emperor.
• 1845

  Peking Opera is generally regarded as having fully formed “Beijing theater style”
• 1828

  Hubei Troupes arrived in Beijing and performed with Anhui Troupes . The combination formed Peking Opera’s melodies.
• 2 MAIN MELODIES OF PEKING OPERA: Xipi, Erhuang
• XIPI – “shadow play”/ “puppet show” in Shaanxi province
• ERHUANG

  derived from HAN Opera after about 1750.
• FOUR ARTISTIC METHODS OF PEKING OPERA: Singing, Dancing, Dialogue, Martial Arts
• SINGING – intensify the appeal of the art by all kinds of tones.
• DIALOGUE – compliment of singing which is full of musical and rhythm sensation.
• DANCING – body movements requiring high performing skills.
• MARTIAL ART – combination and transformation of traditional Chinese combat exercises with dances.
• FOUR MAJOR ROLES OF PEKING OPERA: Sheng, Dan, Jing, Chou
• SHENG - main role in Peking Opera
• DAN - any female role
• JING - painted face male role
• CHOU - male clown role. (ugly)
• WEN CHOU (jailers and merchants)
• WU CHOU (minor military roles)
• RED - devotion, bravery, uprightness
• BLACK - rough and bold character, impartial and selfless
• BLUE - staunches, fierceness, astuteness
• YELLOW - fierceness, ambition and cool-headedness
• GREEN - impulsive, violent, stubbornness, impetuosity, lack of self- restraint
• WHITE - treacherousness, suspiciousness, craftiness
• GOLD and SILVER - used for gods and spirits.