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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Intensive 3-Day Workshop in<BR></SPAN><B><SPAN
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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR>A rare opportunity
in Vancouver to study the dance and chant of Japanese classical Noh
Theatre.</SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>When</B>: August
27, 28, 29, 2004 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
9:00am – 4:30pm Daily</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Where</B>: The
Roundhouse Community Centre - 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Also: Special
Event Open to the General Public – Noh Music and Chant</B><BR>August 24, 2004 –
free interactive lecture demonstration on the music and chant of Noh Theatre.
7:00pm – 9:30pm in the Roundhouse Dance Studio.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Description</B>:<BR>This
workshop is three days of intensive, performance-based training in the dance,
chant, music and performance history of Japanese Noh drama. Actors, directors,
dancers, musicians (particularly vocalists) and academics interested in
non-Western performance experience are encouraged to apply. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One of the oldest
continually performed theatre forms in the world, Noh combines dance, chant,
music, and mask in a powerful and stately performance experience requiring
intense inner concentration and physical discipline. Emmert is visiting North
America to give his annual three-week summer intensive Noh Training Project
workshop in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. On his return to Japan, he will stop in
Vancouver for this special workshop. </FONT></P>
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<P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
Instructor:<BR></FONT></B><FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Born in Ohio in 1949, Richard
Emmert is an American who has studied, taught, and performed Noh drama in Japan
since 1973. A certified Kita school Noh instructor, he has studied all aspects
of Noh performance with a special concentration in movement and music. A
professor at Musashino University in Tokyo where he teaches Asian theatre and
music, he also directs in Tokyo, a semi-intensive, on-going Noh Training Project
for English Speakers. He continues to lead a 3-week Noh intensive in
Pennsylvania which is entering it's ninth successful season this summer. In
2000, he created a company of English-speaking Noh performers made up largely of
his advanced students known as Theatre Nohgaku. Their first tour of North
America took place in 2002 and was produced by the San Francisco based company
Theatre of Yugen. Over the years, Mr. Emmert has led extended Noh projects at
universities in Australia, England, India, Hong Kong, and the United States,
most of which have been with Kita Noh actor Akita Matsui. He has co-authored
with Monica Bethe a series of Noh performance guides for the National Noh
Theatre and produced a CD entitled, "Noh in English". He has composed the music
for five noh plays in English including most recently Erik Ehn's Native American
and Japanese Noh fusion play Crazy Horse, performed by Theatre of Yugen in San
Francisco in 2001.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Costs:</B>
$180 (participants will need a Kita Noh fan,
$70) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Call <B>Pangaea Arts
</B>at (604) 875-8316 for information and registration or email <A
href="mailto:hspecht@pangaea-arts.com">hspecht@pangaea-arts.com</A> <B><SPAN
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