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Traditional Japanese puppet theater performers share culture with Iowans
Performers with Sasago Oiwake Puppet Theatre are visiting Iowa from Yamanashi prefecture. That prefecture has been Iowa's ...
Little Village Magazine11d
A sister state relationship — forged after the 1960 ‘hog lift’ — brings a rare Japanese art form to Iowa this week
Steam wafts from the big bowl of noodles before me while Yoko Tanaka, the executive director of the Japan America Society of ...
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Chloé Viatte: Learning the Japanese Language Through a Passion for Puppet Theater
Chloé Viatte Born in Paris. Received a master’s degree in Japanese language and culture at INALCO, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris. Studied for a year in ...
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Japanese puppetry comes to America
Many of the stories are tragic. YOKO SHIOYA: Japanese puppet theater is basically for adults. VANASCO: Yoko Shioya is the artistic director of Japan Society. She says, here, the company is ...
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Japan Society Will Host 'The Benshi Tradition and The Silver Screen: A Japanese Puppetry Spin-Off'
3 SHELLEY AND LOVELACE NEVER MET to Play Theater for the New City Beginning in January 4 THE GIGGLING GRANNY Comes to Theater For the New City in January Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article ...
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The Haunting Otherworld of Japanese Puppet Theatre
Presumably, someone thought that this Japanese art form needed to be demystified for an American audience, but I was dismayed by the jokey and mechanical treatment of a puppet that, moments before ...