Mapeh artd

• Peking Opera (China)

  Traditional theatre art form that combines music, vocal performance, pantomime, dance, and acrobatics
• Peking Opera started

  Late 18th century
• Peking Opera became fully developed and recognized

  Mid-19th century
• Peking Opera Roles and Characters

  • Sheng (main male role)
  • Xiaosheng (young, handsome male role)
  • Wusheng (martial male role)
  • Laosheng (dignified older male role)
  • Dan (any female role)
  • Laodan (old woman)
  • Wudan (martial woman)
  • Daomadan (young female warriors)
  • Qingyi (virtuous and elite women)
  • Huadan (vivacious and unmarried women)
  • Jing (painted face male role)
  • Chou (male clown role)
• Jing (painted face male role)

  Red color denotes loyalty and goodness, white denotes evil, and black denotes integrity
• Chou (male clown role)

  Reflects the traditional belief that the clown's combination of ugliness and laughter could drive away evil spirits
• Kabuki (Japan)

  Form of traditional Japanese drama with highly stylized singing, acting and dancing, now performed only by male actors
• Kabuki Stage Features

  • Hanamichi (flower path, a walkway which extends into the audience via which dramatic entrances and exits are made)
  • Kogakudo (kabuki theatres that have stages both in front of the audience and along the sides help create a bond between the actors and viewers)
  • Mawaro butai (the interior of the theatre contains a revolving stage)
  • Suppon (a platform that rises from below the stage)
• Three Main Categories of Kabuki Plays

  • Jidaimono (historical or pre-Sengoku period stories)
  • Shosagoto (dance pieces)
  • Sewamono (domestic or post-Sengoku stories focused primarily upon commoners (townspeople and peasants) related to themes of family drama and romance)
• Kabuki "Hero" Characters

  • Aragoto (male role)
  • Onna-gata (female role)
• Sky Lantern Festival (Thailand)

  Event about the launching of lanterns which are small hot air balloons, each release is a petition, small prayer, or good wishes
• Sky Lantern Festival held

  Full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar, usually falls in November
• Loy/Loi Krathong Festival

  Loi/Loy means "to float", Krathong refers to the "Lotus-shaped receptacle" which can float on the water, festival is believed to originate in an ancient practice of paying respect to the spirit of the water, ritual honoring Phra Mae Kongka
• Songkran Festival (Thailand)

  Celebration of the Buddhist New Year, when revelers engage in the biggest "friendly" water fight in the world
• Thaipusam Festival (Malaysia and Singapore)

  Demonstration of how devoted Hindus are to Lord Murugan, pierced devotees believed that the practice of skin piercing cleanses their souls of sins
• Balinese Dance Traditions (Indonesia)

  • Barong (the Lion)
  • Legong (refined dance form characterized by intricate finger movements, complicated footwork, and expressive gestures and facial expressions)
  • Kecak (form of Balinese dance and music drama, originated in the 1930s in Bali and is performed primarily by men)