11
March
2010
Metropol Group gives reception on occasion of Russia’s first theater performance of the Japanese national dance Nihon Buyo
For the first time in Russia, performances were held of the
Japanese Nihon Buyo national dance theater in Moscow’s Maly Theater
from March 10-11, 2010.
On the occasion of the tour, a reception was held on behalf of
Metropol Group and attended by the Ambassador of Japan Mr. Masaharu
Kohno, staff members of the Japanese Embassy, representatives of
the RF Ministry of Culture, artists of the Nihon Buyo theater and a
delegation from Metropol Group headed by M.V. Slipenchuk.
Background
Yasyao, based on the drama Tale of Syudzendzi, written by Okamoto
Kido in the 44th year of the Meiji Era (1911), was first performed
by the Nihon Buyo collective in Tokyo in March 2009. This grandiose
production is about a master mask-maker named Yasyao, who strives
for the highest skill in his art, and his eldest daughter Katsura,
who is committed to defending her husband, the military leader
Minamoto Yoriie. Dressed in samurai armor and wearing a mask
created by her father for her husband, Katsura dies. Yasyao
remembers that no matter how hard he tried to remake the mask, the
seal of death always appeared on it. He comes to realize that only
the gods know a person’s fate, and his art is equal to the art of
the gods. Yasyao is amazed and shudders, realizing the heights of
his skill…
