Yayoi Theatre Movement produces and presents work that blends traditional Japanese dance and theatre with telling contemporary and modern narratives.
We are also consulting firm focused of Japanese cultural arts and provides these services.
* Choreograph Noh, Kabuki, Kagura and mime movement
* Rental and dressing service
YTM has a large inventory of traditional Japanese kimono and accessories.
* Paper mache masks
YTM can create paper mache masks based on traditional Japanese design.
* Teach Kurogo movement or provide trained Kurogo for your theatre project.
Kurogo is an “invisible” stage hand used in Japanese Kabuki theatre.
* Presents workshops on noh, kabuki, Kagura and mime movement.
Please contact us for a consultation.
This will start with a performance (mime and dance) of Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” by Yayoi Hirano, mime artist, with Sara Davis Buechner and Chihiro Honma at the piano. ….[to know more about]
A multi-media dance project that celebrates the life of the late Japanese Canadian Roy Kiyooka. Identity, which combines the dance form of Noh mask theatre and Butoh dance, uses Kiyooka’s struggle with dual Japanese and Canadian identities to reflect on contemporary issues of integration of Canadian and non-Canadian cultural values. ….[to know more about]
We are looking for volunteers/ promotion/ hair make-up/ dresser etc, to help
