Noh workshop, Vancouver

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MASTER CLASS IN JAPANESE NOH THEATRE WITH GUEST ARTIST FROM JAPAN
      Intensive 3-Day Workshop in
      Japanese Noh Theatre with 
      Richard Emmert 

         
     


A rare opportunity in Vancouver to study the dance and chant of Japanese classical Noh Theatre.

When:    August 27, 28, 29, 2004 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)                 9:00am – 4:30pm Daily

Where:   The Roundhouse Community Centre - 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC

Also:        Special Event Open to the General Public – Noh Music and Chant
August 24, 2004 – free interactive lecture demonstration on the music and chant of Noh Theatre. 7:00pm – 9:30pm in the Roundhouse Dance Studio.

Description:
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. 

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. 


The Instructor:
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.

Costs:  $180  (participants will need a Kita Noh fan, $70)   

Call Pangaea Arts at (604) 875-8316 for information and registration or email hspecht at pangaea-arts.com  
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