Learning to kneel noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching

Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh drama was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reima...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Preston, Carrie J. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Modernist latitudes.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40542385*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to noh lessons
  • Ezra Pound as noh student
  • Theater in the "deep": W.B. Yeats's at the Hawk's well
  • Ito Michio's hawk tours in modern dance and theater
  • Pedagogical intermission: a lesson plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions
  • Noh circles in twentieth-century Japanese performance
  • Trouble with titles and directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew
  • River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/pas
  • Coda.