JAPANESE NŌ THEATRE WORKSHOP
WITH
MASTER MASUI AKIRA
Warsaw, Poland 29.10 – 05.11.2011
Ryokurankai Foundation in cooperation with the Department of Japanese and Korean Studies of Warsaw University would like to invite all interested, in the field of classical Japanese theatre, to take part in the nō workshop which will take place in Warsaw (Poland), between October 16th and November 5th, 2011. The workshop will be conducted by master Matsui Akira, shite actor representing Kita school, designated as National Intangible Cultural Asset by the Japanese government. Participants will learn shimai dances as well as jiutai chorus singing. They will learn the basics of the stage movement: kamae (basic position), hakobi (basic step in nō and kyōgen) and kata (dance patterns). They will master two dances taken from certain nō dramas. The workshop will end by public performance of all the participants.
The workshop will take place in the Centre for Culture Promotion located in downtown of Warsaw (www.cpk.art.pl). For the accommodation in Warsaw please refer to webpage www.warsawtour.pl.
INFO & ENROLMENT
ryokurankai@gmail.com,
ph. 0048 604981760
MAXIMUM 20 PARTICIPANTS
The price is 400 PLN (90 €), participants are kindly ask to pay the advance payment (100 PLN – 25 €) as soon as possible (the final reservation will be made after receiving the advance payment)
Matsui Akira is a master actor-teacher of the Kita school of Japanese classical nō theater. He was born in 1946 in Wakayama and began studying nō at the age of seven. He showed such talent that, at age 12, he became a “live-in apprentice” to Kita Minoru, the 15th generation of nō masters of the Kita School. Matsui mastered nō dance and chant, then returned to his hometown at age 20 where he has since been based though performing and teaching throughout Japan. Matsui has also been active for nearly 25 years in disseminating nō abroad. He has trained student actors in nō in numerous foreign countries including Poland, India, Australia, Germany, England, and has offered master classes at colleges and theaters across the U.S. and Canada. “I enjoy bringing nō abroad; it helps me to see nō’s strengths and weaknesses,” he remarked recently. From his firm foundation in tradition, Matsui has experimented in intercultural fusions. In Kyoto, he has acted in NOHO Theatre Group productions of plays by Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, and Beckett. Together with American nō composer-performer Richard Emmert, he has created a series of “English Nō” including St. Francis, At the Hawk’s Well, and Eliza. In 1998 he was given the title of National Intangible Cultural Asset by the Japanese government.
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