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Kabuki (歌舞伎, かぶき) is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily stylised performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costumes, and for the elaborate kumadori make-up worn by some of its performers.
Political posturing, also known as political grandstanding (from the notion of performing to crowds in the grandstands), political theatre, or " kabuki ", [ 1 ] is the use of speech or actions to gain political support through emotional or affective appeals. It applies especially to appeals that are seen as hollow or lacking political or ...
Genre. shosagoto. Renjishi (連獅子), or Two Lions, is a kabuki dance with lyrics written by Kawatake Mokuami, choreography by Hanayagi Jusuke I and music by Kineya Shōjirō III and Kineya Katsusaburō II, first performed in 1872. Originally staged for a private dance recital in 1861, it was later expanded and reused in July 1872 as the ...
Kabuki syndrome (previously known as Kabuki-makeup syndrome (KMS) or Niikawa–Kuroki syndrome) is a rare congenital disorder of genetic origin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It affects multiple parts of the body, with varying symptoms and severity, although the most common is the characteristic facial appearance.
Theatre of Japan. Noh is one of the four major types of Japanese theatre. Traditional Japanese theatre is among the oldest theatre traditions in the world. Traditional theatre includes Noh, a spiritual drama, and its comic accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama.
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura. Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜), or Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, is a Japanese play, one of the three most popular and famous in the kabuki repertoire. [a] Originally written in 1747 for the jōruri puppet theater by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I, it was adapted to ...
Kanjinchō was the first kabuki played adapted closely from the Noh theater. [4] Though bearing the same name and general narrative concept as a 1702 play, one of the Kabuki Jūhachiban, the modern version of Kanjinchō, going back to 1840, is believed to not be directly derived from or connected to this earlier aragoto piece. [5]
The mie (見え or 見得, Japanese pronunciation: [mi.eꜜ]), a powerful and emotional pose struck [ 1 ] by an actor, who then freezes for a moment, is a distinctive element of aragoto Kabuki performance. Mie means 'appearance' or 'visible' in Japanese, and one of the primary purposes of this convention is to draw attention to a particularly ...