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Kabuki Theater

Alyssa DeFonte, Phil Giannino, Imani Suber,

Valerie Baglay

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What is Kabuki?

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It’s not Shapoopi, it’s KABUKI!

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Kabuki Theater Kabuki is a Japanese

dance and drama play involving elaborate costumes, eye-catching makeup, and outrageous wigs to convey the audience.

Known as “the art of singing and dancing”

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History Created around the year 1600 by

a woman named Okuni who preformed alone on riverbanks. Then her audience grew rapidly.

Still preformed today, Kabuki continues to be a form of entertainment enjoyed by many.

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Anatomy of Kabuki Kabuki theaters relied on the

stages, plots, and music. Music was used to set the mood

of the play and it also helped emphasize important points in the plays.

The actors were trained to take their cues not from a stage director but from the music so listening to the music allowed them know when it was their turn to take the stage.

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Concepts Sergei Eisenstein

discusses how Kabuki is related to cinema through the usage of conveying emotions.

Although this elaborate art dose not use dialogue, they do have elaborate makeup which explains their emotions during the play as well as their singing performance.

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Makeup Kabuki Theater is known for the style

of its drama and for the elaborate makeup worn by some of its performers.

Makeup helps provide an element of style that is easily recognizable.

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Application Process How makeup is applied:  -rice powder is used to create

the white base for the characteristic stage makeup

-Kumadori: helps enhances and exaggerates facial lines to produce dramatic animal or supernatural masks. 

-Based on the meaning on the colors on the next slide, you can go about painting it however you want for the character

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When makeup is applied, colors and lines help suggest character.

Red lines are used to indicate passion, heroism, righteousness and other positive traits. 

Black or Blue indicates villain, jealously, and other negative traits

Green lines indicate supernatural  Purple lines indicate nobility  

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Costumes Costumes tend to be extravagant, colorful and

flamboyant costumes are unique and different Usually made of silk and embroidered  4 main parts of a dress is: outer clothing, inner

clothing, lower garments, and headdresses   

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Kabuki Examples Drag Queens “Ru Pauls Drag Race”

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Examples http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/98483

0/meet-the-queens-gia-gunn.jhtml#id=1718643

The hit comedy TV show, “Everybody Loves Raymond”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2lY4QDWNE

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Haiku Poetry

5, 7, 5 syllables

Bright stars in the skySide by side with the moonlightWhat a lovely sight!

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Refrences "Edutainment  Kabuki Theater." Kabuki Theater.

N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014. "Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Kabuki

Theater." Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Kabuki Theater. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2014.

"Kabuki." Kabuki. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Mar. 2014. "The Story behind the Faces." The Story behind

the Faces. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2014. LogoTV.com/Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 6/Meet

the Queens Youtube.com/Everybody Loves Raymond-Frank’s

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