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1/15/2025 0 Comments

Shuji Terayama’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

​Shuji Terayama’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

 Japan Society


CONTEMPORARY THEATER | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Wednesday, January 15 at 7:30 pm—Followed by an opening night reception
Thursday, January 16 at 7:30 pm—Followed by an artist Q&A
Friday, January 17 at 7:30 pm—Preceded by a pre-performance lecture
Saturday, January 18 at 7:30 pm

“…A combination of fashion, magic, evil and eroticism…” – Shuji Terayama

Playbill (PDF) →
Bluebeard is given a Harajuku makeover in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a wild burlesque-like subversion of the French gothic horror legend. Shuji Terayama, father of Japan’s angura (underground) theater movement in the 1960s and ’70s, was repeatedly drawn to the story of Bluebeard’s wives and the locked castle door, culminating in this mind-bending game of cat-and-mouse that questions the very nature of theater itself. Saturated with dark magic tricks, fiddlers and accordion players, aerial dance and more, Project NYX, led by Kanna Mizushima, brings a cross-dressing cast of nearly 30 members to Japan Society for a production directed by illustrious Korean-Japanese experimental theater director Kim Sujin. Find out who escapes the castle in this macabre, magic-infused Lolita fashion spectacle.

On Friday, January 17, a pre-performance lecture on Shuji Terayama led by University of California, Los Angeles Professor Emerita of Theatre Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will begin at 6:30 pm. All ticketholders for Duke Bluebeard’s Castle are welcome to attend this one-night-only pre-performance event with a valid ticket as space allows.

Performed in Japanese with English supertitles.
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1/26/2024 0 Comments

Nihon Buyo Student Workshop

Students from three public high schools in NYC had a chance to learn Nihon Buyo (Traditional Japanese Dance) at Japan Society. In this workshop, students learned about the history of this centuries-old Japanese dance style, as well as its roots in kabuki theater, instructed by Fujima Naozo, accompanied by Tosha Yakimaru (Hayashi-kata/percussion), Tosha Rokon (Hayashi-kata/percussion), and Tosha Suiho (Fun/flute).
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12/1/2022

Kotei (The Emperor)

Kita Noh School, at Japan Society.

1/9/2020

The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood

The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood
Written and directed by Suguru Yamamoto
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Japan Society Performing the Arts

​One-man dance theater piece, performed by Wataru Kitao
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12/10/2016

Hanasaka jisan by Condors

One of Japan’s most popular mukashi banashi folktales comes to life through the playful interpretation of beloved all-male contemporary dance company Condors, led by Ryohei Kondo.
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Hanasaka Jiisan (花咲爺さん The Old Man Who Made Flowers Bloom)
​Dance performance by Condors/Ryohei Kondo
Japan Society Perfoming Arts

Saturday, December 10, 2016 
Sunday, December 11, 2016

9/19/2016

"About Kazuo Ohno"

Dance performance  by Takao Kawaguchi
At Japan Society
http://www.japansociety.org/event/about-kazuo-ohnoreliving-the-butoh-divas-masterpieces

6/3/2016

Maki Yokoyama in NYC

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Maki was visiting NYC for her performance with Enra, a performing arts collective with an original world of live performance and dance, defying genre with synchronized digital art.

1/20/2016

"OQ", Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug

​At Japan Society 
Friday, June 5, 2015  
Saturday, June 6, 2015

9/29/2012

Hikota

9/27/2011

Mayuna Shimizu

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