The 4th Noh Kyogen Appreciation Meeting with Sign Language
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- The 14 Roppeita Memorial Foundation
- subsidy category
- Social Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY31 (2019) 1st Term Social Grant
Business Overview
This project was started in 2016 with the aim of creating an environment where people with hearing impairments and normal people can enjoy the same performance together. The Deaf Theater Company of Japan, which has a high reputation for its sign language kyogen both at home and abroad, was invited to perform a sign language kyogen ichiban from its representative repertoire, and a noh ichiban with simultaneous sign language interpretation by the troupe members was held for the first time in the noh world. In 2019, the 4th performance, the Noh play "Funa Benkei," which was performed last year with a new sign language interpretation script, was further refined and performed. It is a performance that continues to evolve year by year by devising noh sign language expressions and the performers themselves perform in sign language. It also aims to complete a theater-going service for the hearing-impaired by introducing a tactile sound system provided by audio manufacturer Pioneer and providing sign language interpretation and tactile experience.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Sunday, September 8, 2019
- Venues
- 14. Kita Roppeita Memorial Nohgakudo (Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo)
Profile
[Public Interest Incorporated Foundation 14 Roppeita Memorial Foundation]
It is an organization that continues its activities in order to pass down the achievements of Roppeita KITA, the 14th head of the Kita school of Nohgaku shite-kata (lead actors), who is famous as a master of modern Nohgaku, as well as to maintain and manage the Kita Nohgakudo, which is the school's base, and to disseminate and hand down the techniques of the Kita school of Nohgaku both domestically and internationally through Nohgaku performances and experience programs for beginners, young people and foreigners.