Re-performance in dance works at the Asakusa Opera: Considering the possibility of re-performing dance works by Masao Takata(1895-1929): Chizuru SUGIYAMA
Abstract
During the Taisho period, at the Asakusa Opera, members of the opera department of the Tokyo Imperial Theater, including Baku Ishii (1886-1962) and Masao Takata (1895-1929), pioneers of Modern Dance in Japan, and their apprentices, created and performed dance works. Additionally, some of these works were re-performed.
Even though Takata had numerous works, they were not often re-performed. However, if the audience received a work well, Takata would have wanted to re-perform it, perhaps not as a work, but as a scene within other works.
This presentation provides an overview of these re-performances and examines the possibility that Takata’s dance works were re-performed as a scene in other works.
Event Outline
- Time and Date: November 8th (Sat.) 2025, 16:30 – 18:00 (JST)
- Format: HyFlex (On-Campus and Online meeting (Zoom))
- Venue: Waseda University, Nishi-Waseda Campus, Room 204 of Building 54
*No advance registration is required. - Presenter: Chizuru SUGIYAMA
- Affiliation: Waseda University, Faculty of Sport Sciences
- Moderator: Tamamo NAGAI (The University of Tokyo)
- Language: Japanese
- Organized by: Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University
- Comment: There were 20 participants; 8 in-person and 18 online.
Contact
Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University: https://prj-opera-mt.w.waseda.jp/
e-mail address: operaken-uketsuke[at]list.waseda.jp ([at] = @)
Profile of Presenter
Chizuru SUGIYAMA is a professor at Waseda University. She participated in the activities of The Tokyo Creative Dance Company, organized by Koh and Toshiko Fujii (1983-2008). Her specialized area of research is Western dance in modern Japan, focusing especially on the Asakusa Light Theater of the 1920s. She was the coeditor of “The Asakusa Opera: Modernity of Performing Arts and Entertainment” (2017, Shinwa-sha) and the coauthor of “The Body of the Japanese, Reconsidered” (2012, Meiwa Publishing).
