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bugaku

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Karura, bugaku mask, lacquer and painted wood, 14th century; in the To Temple, Kyoto.
(credit: To-ji, Kyoto)
Repertoire of stylized dances of the Japanese imperial court, derived from the traditional dance forms of China, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. The dances are divided into two basic forms: “dances of the left” (saho no mai), accompanied by music derived from China, with dancers wearing red costumes; and “dances of the right” (uho samai no mai), accompanied by music introduced from Korea, with dancers wearing costumes of blue or green. The dancers wear elaborate masks of painted wood to portray fictional characters.



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The first features the ritualistic and erotic Bugaku, Symphony in Three Movements, and divertissements from Don Quixote.
Included are the famous classical Bugaku court dances, with costumes that call to mind the cultures of continental East Asia, the Azuma-asobi, Yamato-mai and the Seino dance, which is performed by ghostlike masked dancers in white.
From the early modern radicalism of Vaslav Nijinsky to the experimental nudity of the '60s to the ways ballet can take on sexuality in works like Balanchine's Bugaku, there have been performances that cause audiences to squirm in their seats.
 
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