Japan | Yamamura Mai and Jiuta | Yamamura Wakahayaki and Kikuō Yūji| Kane ga misaki

Kane ga misaki 鐘ヶ岬 (Il promontorio della campana).
Dance, music and songs (jiuta) from Ōsaka according to the tradition of the Yamamura school.
Yamamura Wakahayaki (dance)
Kikuō Yūji (voice and shamisen)
Kikuoda Yukari (kokyū)
This video presents an excerpt of the initial and final part of a dance that derives from the well- known theatre play Dojoji, telling the story of a girl who fell in love for a young monk who avoids her, and hides himself under a bell of a Buddhist temple, the Dojoji. She follows him and, transformed into a snake, reduces him to ashes by wrapping the bell in its coils. In this excerpt presenting the initial and final part of the dance, a transposition from a kabuki choreography to a chamber dance, the girl comes back, expressing her resentment towards the bell and the young monk who refused her. Then, the dance develops into an evocation of the pleasure quarters of Japan.
Writes Professor Ruperti in the notes presenting this performance that in the tradition of the chamber dances of Ōsaka prominent are the choreutic school Yamamura and the court songs jiuta, accompanied by the plucked lute shamisen. They can be traced back to the Tokugawa period, and manifests at their best the spirit and the essence of Ōsaka, a town of merchants. The Yamamura school, with a tradition of over two hundred years, unites choreographies conceived for kabuki theatre with female dances for pleasure quarters. It has a rich repertoire that combines dances inspired by nō theatre adapted to the sensuality and softness of a female body, dances that reflect the delicate movements of the puppets, and more intimate and quiet dance scenes devised on jiuta songs, performed in a confined space in which the body with a fan moves in a very refined way, designing gestures, moods, seasons, and atmospheres according to an aesthetics that goes up to a distillation of its essence.
This event was organized by Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea of University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”, and coordinated by prof. Bonaventura Ruperti, in cooperation with the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Museum of Oriental Art, Venice and of Teatro Stabile del Veneto, with the patronage of the Municipality of Ōsaka.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia, 30 October 2017
More info on this event: ttp://www.cini.it/en/events/traditional-dance-from-the-yamamura-school
Video: Giuseppe Drago
Italian translation of the songtext: prof. Bonaventura Ruperti
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[@Janka007]

Beautiful performance, I like especially the singing! :)

[@margedtrumper9325]

Meraviglioso peccato non aver potuto assistere

[@automachinehead]

Yamamura Wakahayaki is a true blooded kabuki he can dress as a woman