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This is a wonderful summer workshop hosted by the Bloomsburg Theatre 
Ensemble.  Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested or contact 
John at joglevee@hotmail.com for more info.

-Melissa

Noh Training Project    July 17- August 4, 2000

The Noh Training Project is a three week intensive, performance-based
training in the dance, chant, music, and performance history of Japanese Noh 
Drama.  Taught by internationally acclaimed Noh expert Richard Emmert and 
hosted by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, NTP is now entering its sixth 
summer of bringing  intensive training in Noh to the United States.
Again this summer, Mr. Emmert will be joined for the final week of training 
by Noh Master actor/teacher Akira Matsui.  In addition to teaching 
traditional perfomance practice, Matsui will lead special sessions designed 
to help participants experiment with using Noh techniques with non-Noh 
musical accompaniment and/or text.  The training project culminates in a 
final recital for an invited public.

Training for new students will be mornings, Monday-Friday.  New students 
will learn a number of short dances and songs from Noh plays, learn about 
the musical instruments associated with Noh, and work briefly with a Noh 
mask.  Afternoons will be available for review with teaching assistants or 
to observe senior classes.  In addition to daily training sessions, twice 
weekly evening sessions are held to discuss the history, literature and 
performance elements of Noh, along with viewing videos of  Noh performances.

One of the oldest continually performed theatre forms in the world, Noh
combines dance, chant, music and mask in a powerful and stately performance 
experience requiring intense inner concentration and physical discipline.
Actors, directors, dancers, musicians (particularly vocalists) and
academics interested in a non-Western performance experience are encouraged 
to apply.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  MAY 1, 2000

Applications should include a resume and a brief statement describing what 
the applicant hopes to gain from the training program.  Limited scholarship 
money may be available based on artistic merit and need. If funding is 
secured, priority will go to returning students. Enrollment is limited

         Send to:   Noh Training Project
        c/o Learning Tomorrow
        53 West Main Street
        Bloomsburg, PA 17815
        Phone: (570) 387-8270
        Fax:     (570) 784-4160
        e-mail: ntp@csrlink.net
        www.bte.org
    Acceptance notification by May 15, 2000
    $400.00 deposit due May 30, 2000 to reserve position

Costs:
$1400.00 for three weeks: includes tuition, housing, tabi, and Kita noh
fan.  Housing is located on the campus of Bloomsburg University in their 
graduate student apartments.  All apartments have kitchens, private 
bedrooms, a sitting area, and dining area.  Meals can be cooked in the apt. 
or purchased on a pay-as-you-go basis through the University Food Service.
Bloomsburg also boasts several good and reasonably priced restaurants
within walking distance of the training studio.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble is located 3 hours from NYC (by car). West on
I-80, exit 35.

The Instructors:
Richard Emmert is an American who has studied, taught  and performed
classical Noh in Japan since 1973.   A certified Kita school noh
instructor, Emmert has studied all aspects of Noh performance with a
special concentration in movement and music.  In addition to performing and 
teaching in Japan, he is a professor at Mushashino Women's College in Tokyo 
where he teaches Asian theatre and music.  He also runs an ongoing Noh 
Training Project for non-Japanese living in Tokyo. Emmert frequently writes 
and speaks about Noh and has led numerous Noh workshops in Japan and abroad. 
  He co-authors a series of Noh performance guides for the National Noh 
Theatre in Tokyo and has composed, directed and performed in several English 
Noh plays, excerpts of which have been issued in a compact disc by Teichiku 
Records  entitled "Noh in English."

Akira Matsui is  a master actor-teacher of the Kita School of Japanese
classical Noh Theatre. He began studying Noh at the age of  7, and at the 
age of 12, he became a "live-in apprentice" to Kita Minoru, the 15th 
generation of noh masters of the Kita School.  Matsui has been active for 
over 25 years in disseminating Noh abroad.  He has trained students in 
India, Australia, Germany, and England as well as offering master classes at 
colleges and theatres across the U.S. and Canada.  Matsui has also 
experimented in intercultural fusions with the Noho Theatre Group of Kyoto, 
with the English Noh plays of Richard Emmert, and with other bilingual 
productions in Europe and the U.S. This summer he will appear in 
Forgiveness, a new piece staged by Peony Pavilion director Chen Shi-Zheng.
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