Salon Series 2013/14: Elements of Kabuki Dance 
Sunday, November 10  at  3:00-4:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre - Board Room - 6F
677 Davie Street 

Starting this fall, TomoeArts will be hosting quarterly gatherings focused on themes, topics and issues connected to Japanese dance and performing arts. There will be presentations, discussions and demonstrations, featuring members of the TomoeArts community and special guests. 

November 10 will be the first instalment of the series and will feature TomoeArts' Artistic Director Colleen Lanki (Fujima Sayu), who will talk about the story of Yamanba, the Mountain Crone, a popular character in Japanese performing arts. We will have a chance to look at the character as presented in noh theatre, and also how she is depicted in kabuki and nihon buyoh. 

There will be refreshments and admission is by donation. 

We hope you will join us! 

I'm so pleased to be working with TomoeArts this spring to bring two fabulous guest artists from Japan for two intimate performances and additional lectures and workshops this May.

Shamisen & Odori: The Music and Dance of Kabuki
May 12 (8pm) & May 13 (2pm)
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St., Simon Fraser University

Featuring guest artists from Japan: FUJIMA Shôgo and TOKIWAZU Mozibei V with local dancer: FUJIMA Sayû

Presented by: TomoeArts with SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs


All Tickets $32 (some standing room or limited vision seats $15 at the door)
Tickets Online at www.tomoearts.org

Shamisen & Odori: The Music and Dance of Kabuki brings you live shamisen music and live kabuki dance in an intimate studio setting. Focusing on male-form dances, and Edo (early Tokyo) characters and stories, you'll meet warriors, angels, men-about-town, courtesans and drunken revellers - the real stuff of kabuki! Shamisen & Odori: The Music and Dance of Kabuki brings you a rare connoisseur performance so close you can touch the dancers.

The performance features music by TOKIWAZU Mozibei, a renowned and award-winning shamisen player who regularly works at the professional kabuki theatre in Tokyo. Also featured is dance by FUJIMA Shôgo, a celebrated performer who has been seen on international stages and was the star of TomoeArts Odori: The World of Kabuki Dance. Joining them is TomoeArts' Artistic Director, Colleen Lanki (Fujima Sayû).

Additional Events:
Lecture-Demonstration with the artists <more info>
May 11 (6:30pm) at SFU Woodward's - FREE
Kabuki Dance Class with FUJIMA Shôgo <more info>
May 12 (1pm) at Scotiabank Dance Centre - $20