What is Kabuki Its not Shapoopi its KABUKI Video of kabuki http wwwyoutubecom watchv 4JjLuh4Ns7s Kabuki Theater Kabuki is a Japanese dance and drama play involving elaborate costumes eyecatching makeup and outrageous wigs to convey the audience ID: 486749
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Kabuki TheaterSlide2
What is Kabuki?Slide3
It’s not Shapoopi
, it’s KABUKI!
Video of kabuki
http://
www.youtube.com
/
watch?v
=4JjLuh4Ns7sSlide4
Kabuki Theater
Kabuki is a Japanese dance and drama play involving elaborate costumes, eye-catching makeup, and outrageous wigs to convey the audience.
Known as “the art of singing and dancing”Slide5
History
Created
in the 17
th
century
by a woman named Okuni who preformed alone on riverbanks. Then her audience grew rapidly.Still preformed today, Kabuki continues to be a form of entertainment enjoyed by many. Slide6
Anatomy of Kabuki
Kabuki theaters relied on the stages, plots, and music.
Music was used to set the mood of the play and it also helped emphasize important points in the plays.
T
he
actors were trained to take their cues not from a stage director but from the music so listening to the music allowed them know when it was their turn to take the stage.Slide7
Concepts
Sergei Eisenstein discusses how Kabuki is related to cinema through the usage of conveying emotions.
Although this elaborate art dose not use dialogue, they do have elaborate makeup which explains their emotions during the play as well as their singing performance.Slide8
Makeup
Kabuki Theater is known for the style of its drama and for the elaborate makeup worn by some of its performers.
Makeup helps provide an element of style that is easily recognizable.Slide9
Application Process
How makeup is applied:
-rice
powder is used to create the white base for the characteristic stage makeup
-
Kumadori: helps enhances and exaggerates facial lines to produce dramatic animal or supernatural masks. -Based on the meaning on the colors on the next slide, you can go about painting it however you want for the characterSlide10
When makeup is applied, colors and lines help suggest character.
Red lines are used to indicate passion, heroism, righteousness and other positive traits.
Black
or Blue indicates villain, jealously, and other negative traits
Green
lines indicate supernatural
Purple
lines indicate nobility Slide11
Costumes
Costumes
tend to be extravagant, colorful and flamboyant
costumes
are unique and different
Usually made of silk and embroidered 4 main parts of a dress is: outer clothing, inner clothing, lower
garments, and headdresses Slide12
Here is a better look at what Kabuki Theatre looks like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=F3IHdm2Tf8g