Noh 能
In January I was at a Noh theater performance. For me it was totally machined, because I always wanted to visit and because exactly this performance that was special! The map was difficult to totally get ... a friend of a known his girlfriend ... etc. (I was the only foreigner in the room:)
The costumes and masks were simply awesome! The play was about a Buddhist monk, who met on his pilgrimage to the greatest demon (Daihannya). It was a very famous and rare performance, used in the costumes and makeup were goods that were already used before 300 years!
Noh is a traditional Japanese theater, which is played only by men, and musical accompaniment. Mostly with the main character, a mask made of wood! The traditional issues of concern mostly Japanese and Chinese mythology or literature.
There are now (just like train 400 years ago) only 5 Noh theater schools, the actors! By handing down to about 250 types of masks are designed to represent different characters. There are women masks, masks, men, and gods Ungeheuer-/Dämonenmasken masks. They are made of light wood (Japanese cypress) cut.
As the masks, the costumes in the Noh particularly splendid, indeed unique in the history of theater. Many of the state as masterpieces of art garments protected and preserved in museums or private collections.
All Today's gestures and dance moves are the result of a long process of Stylization, ie a gradual omission of non-essential elements in the original Imitation of real gestures and an elegant, concentrated formalization of the nature of such actions such as crying, fighting, ghosts and invocations, shamans and women's dances
etc. The basic movement is going. The actor slips on his heels, his feet do not lose contact with the floor! As a result, the actor moves only horizontally, parallel to the floor, soft and supple, like a ghost. And if that is still made me a spooky time demon mask erzielt es echt einen guten Angsteffekt!
Noh wurde in die UNESCO-Liste der Meisterwerke des mündlichen und immateriellen Erbes der Menschheit aufgenommen.