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• Kabuki


  The most successful theatre entertainment in the red-light districts of the great cities in Japan
• Noh


  Together with kabuki, it is considered as the most important Japanese contribution to world theater
• Noh and kabuki


  Unique and genuine expressions of the Japanese spirit and culture
• Peking Opera


  A stylized Chinese form of opera dating from the late 18th century, in which speech, singing, mime, and acrobatics are performed to an instrumental accompaniment
• Kabuki "hero" characters


  Onna-gata - female roles, Aragoto - Male roles
• Peking Opera Sheng character


  Male, usually leading one, dates back to Southern Drama of the Song and Yuan Dynasties (960-1368). This role appears in operas in all historical periods.
• Peking Opera Sheng sub groups


  • Xiaosheng - Project handsome and young image
  • Wusheng - Martial character for roles involving combat. Highly trained in acrobatics and have a natural voice in singing
  • Laosheng - Dignified older role. Have a gentle and cultivated disposition. Costumes performed as an aging man or middle-age man with beards
• Peking Opera Dan


  General term for female role subdivided into Zhengdan (or Qingyi), Huadan, Wudan and Laodan.
• Peking Opera Jing


  A painted face male role who plays either primary or secondary roles; has a strong voice and be able to exaggerate gestures. Red color denotes loyalty and goodness, white is evil and black denotes integrity.
• Peking Opera Chou


  Clown role
• Wayang Kulit stories


  • Ramayana
  • Mahabharata
  • Serat Menak - a story about the heroism of Amir Hamza
• Kabuki Mie


  An actor holds picturesque pose to establish his character and his house name Yagō, is sometimes heard in a loud shout (Kakegoe) from expert audience member, serving both to express and enhance audience's appreciation of the actor's achievement.
• Peking Opera main skills


  • Song
  • Speech
  • Dance-acting - This includes pure dance, pantomime, and all other types of dance
  • Combat - includes both acrobatics and fighting with all manner of weaponry
• Wayang Kulit performance


  • Shadows cast on a cotton screen, Oil lamp, In Java, most often used as a light source is halogen electric light, Wayang Santosa has employed spotlights, colored lights and other innovation.
• Now that you are very particular with the characteristics of those three theatres, it's time for you to evaluate music and performances applying knowledge of musical elements and style.
• Choose a character from Kabuki and/or Peking Opera. Imitate the character using picturesque pose. You may add make-up, costume, mask, props etc. in order to be a look-alike of a character you are portraying. Take a picture of yourself in character then evaluate it using the rubrics below.
• Kabuki props


  Fluttering roles linen represented by flowing water and creatures like insects and foxes. Fans are used to symbolize wind, sword, a tobacco pipe, waves or food. Costume changing is considered as an art. The color of Kumadori is an expression of the character's nature.
• Peking Opera facial makeup


  The different colors and designs on the faces represent males with different characters. Some are bold and vigorous and some are sinister, ruthless, crude and rash. The voice is loud and clear, and the movement are exaggerated. The roles represent men of high social standing and good behavior, often court ministers.
• Wayang Kulit puppet symbols


  Material symbols are symbols which can be seen and touched, physical or tangible things like curtains, banana stem, oil lamp, box and etc. Immaterial symbols are symbols that have no physical aspect but can be understood when performed.
• Terms to remember in Asian Theater


  • Aria - Self-contained expressive melody for one voice, usually with orchestral accompaniment
  • Kenong and Ketuk - Single inverted bronze bowl
  • Bonang - Set of bronze bowls
  • Mie - Making a pose and standing still during acting, to express the rising of feelings
  • Dalang - Puppeteer and narrator of Wayang Kulit
  • Erhuang - Used to express the lyric mood, such as mild placid and gentle
  • Qupai - Fixed-tune melody
  • Gamelan music ensemble - Background accompaniment in every performance of Wayang Kulit
  • Rebab - Two-stringed fiddle
  • Saron - Xylophone of heavy bronze bars
  • Gender - Bronze xylophone with resonance chambers beneath
  • Sheng - A mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes
  • Gong and Kempul - Hanging gongs
  • Suling - Flute
  • Ka - Song
  • Suluk - Mood songs
  • Kabuki - Combination of acting, dancing, and music includes the manifestation of form, color and sound
  • Tjelempung - A zither of thirteen double strings
• A theater is an elitist art form and while going to the theater you will get a wonderful opportunity to explore the human condition and gather together. It is the intricate part of the human history because it is having the capability to show the best and worst sides of human nature.
• Performing art is about being creative and it teaches people how to express ourselves more effectively. In addition to teaching self-expression, the performing arts help society as a whole in self-knowledge and understanding. Theater and the performing arts teach society about itself, hoping to point out the attitudes and mindsets of current society. It can be a tool used to educate people about their current conditions.
• Festivals and Theater Arts in Asia are a fascinating mix of the local cultures, lifestyles and religion that have evolved in the countries with their rich cultural identities
• These festivals and Theater Art also guarantee a fun-filled and delightful time for the locals
• Examples of Asian festivals and theater arts


  • Chinese New Year Festival
  • Taiko Drum Festival
  • Balinese Dance Festival
  • Loy Khratong Festival
  • Lantern Festival
  • Peking Opera
  • Kabuki Theater
  • Wayang kulit
  • Nang Puppet Show
• Philippine festivals are famous for their colorful and artistic costumes, masks, and props
• The art elements like color, lines, and textures are considered, and their principles like repetition and balance are used to come up with good designs in Philippine festivals
• Ati Atihan Festival


  • Religious processions and street parades, showcasing themed floats, dancing groups, marching bands, and celebrants paint their faces with black soot and wear bright, outlandish costumes as they dance in revelry during the last three days of these two week-long festivals
• Sinulog Festival


  • Honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu. Features a street parade with participants in bright-colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs
• Dinagyang Festival


  • The Ati Tribe Competition is one of the most awaited events of the festival. Tribus compete through a choreographed "warrior dance" while dressed in colorful indigenous outfits. Some of them carry a shield and a spear
• Moriones Festival


  • The Mask is central to the Moriones. Features the wooden Morion mask and headgear depicting the faces of Roman soldiers. Most masks feature sharp eyes and a beard and display a villainous scowl. Others depict a woman or a child, with their features seemingly angelic
• Pahiyas Festival


  • A thanksgiving festival to San Isidro Labrador for the past year's bountiful harvest. The event is popular for the elaborate edible decorations that cover entire houses like fruits and vegetables, most prominent of which are the brightly colored rice wafers known as kiping. The image of the patron saint is also paraded around town assuring the farmers of a bountiful harvest in the years to come
• Panagbenga Festival


  • Celebrates the local flora in a massive flower festival. Includes floats that are covered mostly with flowers. Also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian, and Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordilleras
• Masskara Festival


  • Features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see colorfully masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination, and stamina
• Pintados Festival


  • A cultural-religious celebration based on the body-painting traditions of the ancient tattooed "pintados" warriors. Dancers paint their bodies in patterns that resemble armor to represent past warriors
• The festivals in the Philippines are very artistic and creative as it can be seen in the elements and principle of arts that they have use in making their costume, mask, and props
• Festivals and theater arts help us to keep connection with our roots, culture, and origin. Every festival has its own meaning and related beautifully to life and brings a lot of happiness, color and prosperity to our lives
• Chinese New Year Festival


  • The dragon or lion dance is the highlight of the celebration. The dragon symbolizes power, strength, and good luck
• Taiko Festival of Japan


  • The taiko is a traditional Japanese drum with limitless rhythmic possibilities. It can be translated as "heartbeat," the primal source of all rhythm
• Balinese Dance Festival of Indonesia


  • Balinese dance is dynamic, angular, and intensely expressive. Most of the dances are connected to Hindu or traditional folk rituals, believed to possess the dancers in a trance state during the performance