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Umeda Arts Theatre, the Musicals of Japan Origin project, [12] Meijiza, and other companies have also produced original musicals in Japan. Japan has also seen productions of musicals from South Korea, France, Austria, and other places around the world that have not had English-language productions. Elisabeth is the most famous of these.
A traditional Japanese performance art (太神楽/大神楽, "great divine music") that evolved from Shinto ritual origins. Originally featuring masked lion dancers with musical accompaniment who performed at shrine festivals to ward off evil spirits, it developed into a complex entertainment form incorporating juggling and acrobatic skills.
Noh (能, Nō, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent") is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. . It is the oldest major theater art that is still regularly performed today.
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Noh (能) or nōgaku (能楽) music is a type of theatrical music used in Noh theatre. Noh music is played by an instrumental ensemble called hayashi-kata (囃子方).The instruments used are the taiko (太鼓) stick drum, a large hourglass-shaped drum called the ōtsuzumi (大鼓), a smaller hourglass-shaped drum called the kotsuzumi (小鼓), and a bamboo flute called the nohkan (能管).
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The National Theatre of Japan (国立劇場, Kokuritsu Gekijō) is a complex consisting of three halls in two buildings in Hayabusachō, a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The Japan Arts Council , an Independent Administrative Institution of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology , operates the National Theatre.
Angura (アングラ), also known as the "Little Theater" (小劇場, shōgekijō) movement, was a Japanese avant-garde theater movement in the 1960s and 1970s that reacted against the Brechtian modernism and formalist realism of postwar Shingeki theater in Japan to stage anarchic "underground" productions in tents, on street corners, and in small spaces that explored themes of primitivism ...