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The Tokyo Ballet has a wide range of repertoire from classical full-length ballets to works of contemporary choreographers. In particular, the company has original works created by three choreographers representing the contemporary ballet scene: Maurice Béjart's The Kabuki (1986), Bugaku (1989) and M (1993), Jiří Kylián’s Perfect Conception (1994) and John Neumeier's Seven Haiku of the ...
In 1981, Ito founded Sachiyo Ito and Company, a performing dance company and school of classical, traditional, and contemporary Japanese dance that also offers workshops, lecture demonstrations and other educational and public events on Japanese dance and culture. [18] [19]
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
Japanese traditional oiran dance, 2023. There are several types of traditional Japanese dance. The most basic classification is into two forms, mai and odori, which can be further classified into genres such as Noh mai or jinta mai, the latter style having its origins in the pleasure districts of Kyoto and Osaka.
The oldest forms of traditional Japanese music are: shōmyō (声明 or 聲明), or Buddhist chanting; gagaku (雅楽), or orchestral court music; both of which date to the Nara (710–794) and Heian (794–1185) periods. [3] Gagaku classical music has been performed at the Imperial court since the Heian period. [4]
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.
Japanese classical music groups (1 P) C. Japanese classical composers (7 C, 39 P) Japanese contemporary classical musicians (1 C, 2 P) O. Japanese opera singers (6 C ...
Yoko Kanno (born 1963), 20th–21st century music producer and composer [3] Yuki Kajiura (born 1965), 20th–21st century music producer and composer; Taro Iwashiro (born 1965) Yoshiki Hayashi (born 1965), 20th–21st century music producer and composer; Yoko Shimomura (born 1967), 20th–21st century music pianist and video game composer