Tomoe (pronounced toh-moh-ay) Arts is a company based in Vancouver, Canada that promotes, teaches, and performs nihon buyoh or Japanese classical dance. They also create and present performances incorporating the forms and aesthetics of Japanese traditional performing arts.
This year’s Salon Series contrasts two major themes in kabuki dance plays: demons and beautiful maidens. November will examine a play about a demon in search of an arm lost in battle; and March will focus on two dance plays that feature beautiful magical “musume” or maidens. As last year, TomoeArts will be screening full videos of live performances from the Shôchiku’s Kabuki Meisakusen Series, which feature some of the greatest kabuki performers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The recordings have English language commentary, and there will also be discussion of important story and performance elements. Green tea will be included!
Onoe KikugorôV in the role of the demon in Ibaraki. Print by Toyohara Kunichika.
Ibaraki – The Demon Ibaraki
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | Chilcotin Room (rm 256)
When: November 9, 2015 | 7:00-8:30pm
Entrance is free.
A dance play written by Kawatake Mokuami in 1883 about Tsuna and the demon Ibaraki. The story’s background is from the noh play Rashômon, where Tsuna cut off the demon’s arm in an attack at the gate. In this kabuki dance play, Ibaraki visits Tsuna disguised as his aunt Mashiba in order to retrieve his severed arm. Starring Onoe Baikô VII as the demon and Onoe Shôroku II as Tsuna.
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