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Instructions: Watch the videos for question 2. Lastly, answer the 3 questions please.
- Kabuki catered to the tastes of the middle class that was not admitted to aristocratic Noh theater. Yet Kabuki playwrights enjoyed subversively portraying the exploits of the upper class, which was forbidden, and reveled in tales of star-crossed lovers from two different worlds, doomed to commit suicide together. How does catering to the lower classes as opposed to nobility affect theater in subject matter, acting style, and innovation? (for example, the question asks what entertainment do we have here in the U.S that caters to lower classes and higher class, what is the difference between those two how do they change what is the style of theater) (more of a reflection question)
- Butoh is a world wide practice, yet, unlike Bharatanatyam or Ballet, it is not a codified technique (meaning there is no beginner, intermediate, advance). Could Butoh stay Butoh if it were codified? (if you were to put in writing and set in a structure and have it be same not depending the teacher has, it is going to be the same because it is codified) Would it still be Butoh or is something different about it, will something be lost? What is lost when you codified)
-Watch the 3 videos from the playlist that describes the philosophy and ideas of Butoh - Thinking about how dance is banned, restricted, labeled as sinful, and society classifies certain movement for certain people (i.e. twerking is for 'hoes', line dancing is for white people who dig country, etc…this is done in every culture), why is the dancing body so often subjected to being used as a powerful tool of propaganda?
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