Teaching Personality With Gracefulness: The Transmission of Japanese Cultural Values Through Japanese Dance Theatre

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This book includes both a description and a discussion of the methods used by Kanriye Fujima, a member of the Fujima school of Japan, to teach Nihon Buyon to primarily Japanese-Americans. Sellers-Young discusses Fujima's life as a teacher in three Pacific Northwest communities, providing an explanation of her teaching processes and contexts of performances. Incorporating the themes and images associated with the pieces, Sellers-Young discusses Fujima's vital role in the maintenance of specific Japanese cultural values.
Contents: Preface; Becoming a Student; Kanriye Fujima's Life and Traditional Japanese Dance Theatre; The Movement and Its Aesthetic Base; The Students; The Studio: The Process of Teaching; The Performance Elements; Contexts of Performance; Nihon Buyo: From Japan to the Pacific Northwest; Appendices: The Dances and Program Notes of Fujinami-Kai; The Ten Most Taught Dances in Each Age Category; References; List of Illustrations; Tables and Charts.

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No one else has provided us with a book in English that begins to answer the questions Barbara Sellers-Young addresses about Japanese dance....This book gives us much to be thankful for. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno * Dance Research Journal *
Sellers-Young is at once scholarly and readable. [Her book] is both an ethnographic study and a journal of personal growth. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno
Sellers-Young is at once scholarly and readable. [Her book] is both an ethnographic study and a journal of personal growth. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno
No one else has provided us with a book in English that begins to answer the questions Barbara Sellers-Young addresses about Japanese dance....This book gives us much to be thankful for. -- Kenneth Aldrich, California State University, Fresno * Dance Research Journal *

Author Bio

Barbara Sellers-Young is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of California-Davis.