Japanese Traditional Theatre. What is it? Why should we care? What's with all the questions Theo? Well I'm here to tell you all that Japanese theatre is amazing in so very many ways. For this post, however, lets get multi-class topical and talk about masks!
The following link leads to a page from the Arly Masks website, which is the online presence of a woman named Wendy Soroka - a mask improv teacher, actor, and the principal Mask Designer for Arlecchina's Masks located in Los Angeles. This page takes you through a very interesting and in depth timeline of Japanese Theatre, and contains many visuals of costumes, masks, stages, puppets, drawings, actors - anything you could possibly want to know about regarding Japanese Theatre, all condensed into one, very aesthetically pleasing, page!
Another simple but extremely interesting website regarding masks from the Noh tradition specifically is here: Noh Masks & Facial Expression Perception. Make sure to check out the animation at the bottom of the page. It shows the expression changes that occur in a Noh mask based on the angle from which the mask is seen.
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ReplyDeleteI vote for you! I really enjoyed the images; they made the information very clear to understand. I learned that the trick of the Noh mask is all in the exaggeration of certain features, especially the mouth.
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