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Monthly Series of Traditional Arts vol.33: We Love "Kotengeinou": Japanese Traditional Culture Seen from Overseas

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The Monthly Series of Traditional Arts is the program to provide occasion to enjoy traditional art from various points of view. In July, we focus on what attracts non-Japanese people to Japan's traditional arts.

The Monthly Series of Traditional Arts #37 is held as a related event of Traditional Theater Training (T.T.T.) 2016.

T.T.T. is a three-week summer intensive training program that introduces the traditional arts of Noh, Kyogen, and Nihonbuyo. The program is based on the traditional practice-recital approach, and aims to allow participants to learn the skills and spirit of traditional performing arts, and also build on their own self-expression and/or supplement their research activities.

Matthew W. Shores participated in the T.T.T kyogen course in 2011 and took on the role of program director in 2015. He is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) in Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge. Shores became fascinated by Japanese traditional arts while in college in the late 1990s and has since gained significant knowledge and experience in this area. In The Monthly Series of Traditional Arts #37, Shores talks about what attracts him and other non-Japanese people to Japan's traditional arts.

*With English Interpreter
Date / Term
July 31, 2016 [Sun.]
15:00~16:30
Venue
Kyoto Art Center Kyoto Art Center, Japanese-style Hall
Application Details
Reservation in Advance (Up to 70 Participants)
* Participation on the day possible, if the fixed number of places still available.
T.T.T. Recital
T.T.T. 2016 Participants will perform on a hundred year-old noh stage, presenting the results of three
weeks of intensive training. All performers will be professionally dressed.
Time |2016. 8. 13. (sat.) Start 16:00/Open 15:30
Venue | Oe Noh Theater (Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City)
Performer | T.T.T. participants and instructors
*Admission free, Open to public

Matthew W. Shores, Ph.D.

Matthew Shores is lecturer (assistant professor) in Japanese literature in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has researched Japanese literature and performing arts for nearly twenty years. Shores specializes in rakugo (comic storytelling), which he has studied under Katsura Bunshi V (1930-2005) and Hayashiya Somemaru IV (1949-). He received his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and has published on popular culture and comic modes of expression of the early modern and modern eras.

Contact

Kyoto Art Center
Tel:+81-(0)75-213-1000
Email:info@kac.or.jp

Admission

Admission free

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