Takarazuka Revue

acting methodology, scenic atmosphere and genre performance in Japanese musical theater

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takarazuka, musical, Japão, Otokoyaku, Teatro

Abstract

This article aims to expose the elements that create the scenic atmosphere and legitimize the takarazuka theater as a performing language, based on the experience of two shows: Rose of Versailles and Once Upon a Time in America. The analysis was divided into three elements: acting methodology – based on Stanislavski and Tadashi Suzuki –, scenic atmosphere – based on Max Reinhardt’s total theater – and genre performance – based on the bishounen figure used by the otokoyaku actresses. The importance of this research is to understand how this performativity subverts, from its origins, the role of women as artists from the insertion of the "secondary gender" while negotiating with current gender standards through small reinventions and attributes. legacy technicians.

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Daniel Ribeiro Fernandes Aleixo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas/SP, Brasil

Bachelor of Performing Arts from the State University of Campinas (2016-2022) having carried out an exchange program at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) (2019-2020) by JASSO. Study trajectory focused on the butoh dance of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ôno, in the Angura theater and Japanese marginal cinema, deepened by the research "The reading of death in the butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata" by FAPESP. He is currently a member of the Butô Experimental Center in São Paulo as a performer and researcher and of Fujima Ryu Brasil as a Kabuki actor. Line of research focused on practical-theoretical investigations into Japanese counterculture in terms of theater, dance and cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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2023-07-06

How to Cite

Aleixo, D. R. F. (2023). Takarazuka Revue: acting methodology, scenic atmosphere and genre performance in Japanese musical theater. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 13(3), 1–26. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128369

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