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Lessons for Actors That Work for Real People Too
Not lessons for you, but lessons I’ve learned. Thoughts on performance, art, teaching,
and training to be a decent person…
You'll also find other articles related to different theatre styles and theorists throughout.
Suzuki in His Own Words
If I have to articulate the raison d'être for the existence of theatre in simple words, it is a cultural device that seeks to find out how to confront difference and sameness, coincidence and necessity for human beings, as well as how to confront a group of peoples and nations.
Kazuo Ohno - In His Own Words
A class with Kazuo Ono is no ordinary class. When does the class begin? When we take the train from Tokyo to Yokohama? When we climb the path which leads to the house on a hill? While we sit around the table in his studio, drinking tea and listening to him before beginning to work?
Tatsumi Hijikata - In His Own Words
“Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet. What has happened to the tucked-in feet? What has become of our bodies”