In 2017, I developed a computer application entitled "Sanka Play," which enables audience members to participate in improvisational performances by making real-time requests to performers. In most cases of free improvisation, the audience atmosphere influences performers. While audience--performer interaction is generally nonverbal,…

For the first time in the history of Japanese theatre, a training program has been developed to prepare young men outside the kabuki families for careers in this very rigorous and demanding form of theatre. (Author)

Presented at UNESCO International Round Table on the Relations between Japanese and Western Arts, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, September 1968; illustrated. (RD)

The general aim of this booklet is to assist those who desire to increase their knowledge and appreciation of Asian cultures and, more specifically, to provide an additional dimension to the Asia Society's Dance Demonstration Program. Dance history, philosophical ideas of religion, accompanying rituals, the relationship of dance to music, and…