| Date: | Sat 22 Jun 2024 |
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| Venue: | Kings Place, London |
Acting from Inside
Led by Kohei Kawaguchi, and Gasho Yamanaka, the shite actors of the Kanze School, joined us for a Noh Movement Creative Sessions that is open to everyone, but most suitable for actors, choreographers and dancers.
Jean-Louis Barrault, a French actor who uses Noh techniques to help him inhabit his characters, described his experience of movement in Noh by saying, “it appears to me that, acting more from the inside, making fewer gestures, I gain effectiveness – I enter fully into the role and control it.”
Led by Kohei Kawaguchi, and Gasho Yamanaka, the shite actors of the Kanze School, the workshop delved into fundamental elements of kata (forms). You will turn these basic movements into a series of fluid motions that enable subtle emotional expression referring to the Noh play Kinuta which will be performed later that evening.
Additionally, participants had the opportunity to create short choreographed pieces of their own.
