Fwd: Japanese theatre in the 21st century

[Aaron Gerow]

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From: "Helen Parker" <jpshsps at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk>


An international symposium on "Japanese Theatre in the 21st
Century" will take place at the University of Edinburgh and Royal
Museum of Scotland on  2-6 July, 2001.  All welcome.  The
programme is posted below. For further details and registration
forms, visit our website:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~etev09/JapanTheatre/JapaneseTheatre.html
or contact the Secretariat at
JapanTheatre at ed.ac.uk

Programme

Monday 2 July
11am. Opening ceremony

2-3.30pm. Workshops
Modern Japanese Dance I (SHAKTI) Maximum 25 participants.
Chindon-ya:Traditional street theatre (U-Stage)

2-5pm. Presentations
Japanese theatre on the international scene: its influence and
effects (I)
Panel 1: Alternative Bodies? Considering Contemporary Japanese
Theatre and Performance in an Age of
Globalisation
Discussant: UCHINO Tadashi, University of Tokyo
Peter ECKERSALL, University of Melbourne,Becoming Con-fused:
Interculturalism and Hybridity in Daisan Erotica's
Hamletclone and Gekidan Kaitaisha/NYID's Journey to Con-fusion
Project
MORIYAMA Naoto, University of Tokyo, The Phantom of the
Suburbia: Daisan Erotica's Hamletclone
Katherine MEZUR, University of California at Santa Barbara, Cute
Mutant Girls: Mutilation and Deformity in
Contemporary Performance

7.30pm. Keynote performance by Noho: Japanese Noh Drama and
Beckett's Rockabye

Tuesday 3 July
10am-12.30pm. Keynote address by Professor TAKEMOTO Mikio
(Tsubouchi Shoyo Memorial Museum and Faculty of
Arts, Waseda University) followed by a question and answer
session

2-3.30pm. Workshops.
Modern Japanese Dance II(AKI)Maximum 25 participants
Shishimai and O-hayashi: Lion Dance and Drumming(U-Stage)

2-5pm. Presentations
Japanese theatre on the international scene: its influence and
effects (II)
Katja CENTONZE, University of Venice, Buto: Against the Wset,
Through the West, For the West: A Perspective
Proposal
Keiko COURDY, University of Tokyo, Visions of the Body-The
Performance Work of Dumb Type and Pappa
Tarahumara
Ligia VERDI, University of Sao Paulo, Kazuo Ohno's Butoh

7.30 p.m. Performance: Modern Japanese Dance (SHAKTI and
AKI)

Wednesday 4 July
9.30am-12.30pm. Presentations
Multi-media Japanese theatre
David C GOODMAN, University of Illinois, Concerned Theatre
Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theatre, 1960-1980

HAYASHI Kazutoshi, Nagoya Women's University, Nomura
Mansaku and Mansai Kyogen DVD ROM Project
Samuel L LEITER, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Kabuki Translation in
the 21st Century
10am-12noon. Workshop
Noh drama I (MATSUI Akira) Maximum 30 participants

Free time

Thursday 5 July
9am-1pm. Presentations
Japanese theatre on the international scene: its influence and
effects (II)
Daniel GALLIMORE, Linacre College, Oxford, Glasshouses or
Hothouses? Japanese Macbeths at the Edinburgh
Festival
Jonah SALZ, Ryukoku University, To and Fro in Noh-style:
Beckett's Rockabye in Japanese Interpretations
Stanca SCHOLZ-CIONCA, University of Trier, Shakespeare in
Sumo Garb
Barbara SELLERS-YOUNG, University of California, Davis, Looking
East-Finding West: The Actor, Interculturalism and
the Body

10am-12noon. Workshop: Noh drama II (MATSUI Akira) Maximum
30 participants

2-5pm. Presentations
Japanese theatre on the international scene: its influence and
effects (IV)
Panel 2: Inter-Intra-cultural Shakespeares in Japan
Discussant: YOSHIHARA Yukari, Tsukuba University
Ian CARRUTHERS, La Trobe University, Melbourne,Reformulating
Tradtional Japanese Theatre and Reconstituting
Shakespeare: Robert Wilson's Hamlet(s) and Suzuki Tadashi's
Macbeth(s)
MINAMI Ryuta, Kobe University of Foreign Studies, Japanese
Theatre and Foreign Directors: "Foreign" Shakespeares
on the Japanese Stage
YAMADA Tomoko, Kawasaki City Museum, Shakespeare in Shojo
Manga, Narrative Cartoons for Girls

Friday 6 July
9:30am-1pm. Presentations.
Zeami's Fushi kaden (1400-2000): its rediscovery in the 20th
century and impact on the 21st century
Christine GREINER, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Yugen and
the Artist's Body in the Contemporary World
KAGAYA Shinko, Williams University, Denationalization of Noh
Zvika SERPER, Tel Aviv University, Fushi kaden: From a
Traditional Treatise to a Modern Instruction for Contemporary
Director and Actor

2:30pm. Open discussion session
4pm. Closing ceremony
Helen S E Parker
Organiser
Japanese Theatre in the 21st Century
International Symposium, 2-7 July 2001

School of Asian Studies
8 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9LW.

E-mail: JapanTheatre at ed.ac.uk

Tel: +44 131 650 4230
Fax: +44 131 651 1258

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