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Example sentences for: kabuki
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Kyoto’s kabuki troupe performs in December and Osaka’s in May.
Connoisseurs wait for the set pieces: the colorful parade of the courtesan, a poignant seppuku suicide, the exciting fight scenes, and — summit of the art of kabuki — the end of a love affair that the heroine must break off, perhaps to save her lover’s honor, but never because she no longer loves him.
In the early days of kabuki, at the beginning of the 17th century, the acclaimed Kyoto dancers started to present increasingly erotic and lascivious performances.
I was compelled to pay strict attention (for four or five hours at a time) to setting, lighting, music, gesture, singing, pace of over-all presentation; to this or that role's performance, costume, formal distancing from the audience (Noh) or Globe-like intimacy with the audience (Kabuki); to traditional methods of men's playing women's parts, audience's anticipation and shouted recognition of favorite plays and actors and moments, tone of voice, etc.
Equally stylized in its way, kabuki is filled with fantastic color, movement, action, drama, and comedy.