Against the backdrop of the Art Gallery of NSW exhibition, Theatre of dreams, theatre of play: nō and kyōgen in Japan (14 June – 14 September), this series looks at a selection of genres from Japan’s rich spectrum of performing arts.
Reaching across centuries—from Noh, as a legacy of the middle ages, through to the contemporary phenomenon of Hatsune Miku—these talks explore both canonised and marginal artforms, and the histories, tensions and paradoxes that have shaped them.
Through unpacking Japanese approaches to expression, this series offers new ways of understanding what performance is—or what it can be. |
