Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - As the coronavirus outbreak leaves people cooped up at home, aficionados of classical Japanese dance ...

The Japanese Festival isn’t all drummers, vendors, origami and anime. This year, it will also feature Sachiyo Ito & Company, a troupe specializing in Japanese classical dance, in five performances ...

The program of Kabuki classical Japanese theater presented Friday at the Kennedy Center was a reminder of tried-and-true themes that modern Kabuki continues to convey. "Kabuki Dance" was directed by ...

Witness a breathtaking union of Japan's most talented nihon buyo dancers, featuring the esteemed Hanayagi Motoi and rising young star Azuma Tokuyo (also known as Nakamura Kazutaro in kabuki theater).

Kabuki master Nakamura Gankyō will take workshop participants on a journey through this unique Japanese theatrical style, demonstrating highlights from the dance drama Mirror Lion (Shunkyō Kagami ...

FROM the busiest intersection of Tokyo’s main street, the Ginza, it is only a few steps to the Kabuki-Za, the principal theater dedicated to the presentation of Japan’s most colorful form of drama, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Sahomi Tachibana, a Japanese American master teacher and performer of Nihonbuyo (traditional Japanese dance) lives in Portland. Tachibana just turned 100 in April. The legacy she ...

To understand Amagatsu’s work, it helps to know a bit about Butoh. Butoh (roughly translated as “dance step”) originated as a revolutionary performance art in Japan in the late 1950s and early 1960s.