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Williams Japanese Program
Tompkins Japan Series and Other Special Events
In addition to ongoing regular events, each year the program sponsors special events including lectures, performances, and workshops. These events are often sponsored in conjunction with other departments, and with assistance from the Tompkins Fund, as part of the Tompkins Japan Series.
Awaji Puppet Theater Company|
Photo Gallery 1 |
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A Comic Journey and Tragic Love Come Alive Through Puppetry and Song featuring Living National Treasure Shinnai master Tsuruga Waksanojo XI and Kuruma Ningyo puppetry master Nishikawa Koryu V
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Public Performances Workshop Please see the tour website at http://www.shinnai-usa.org |
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Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) concert
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In January 2007, Japanese Language Program welcomed Sahoko Ichikawa (Cornell University) for a special Shakuhachi concert. Shakuhachi means "1.8 foot", its size. It is traditionally made of bamboo, and is held vertically like a recorder, instead of transversely like the Western tranverse flute. |
Consul General
In November 2004, Nishibayashi Masao, the Japanese Consul General in Boston and Williams '76, spoke on the history and state of Japan-U.S. relations in the 150 years since Perry's arrival in Japan, including Japan's historical connections with Williams, the U.S.-Japan joint security treaty and Japan's changing international role, U.S.-Japan economic relations, and the potential effect of the November election on Japan-American relations.
Japanese Puppet Theater Demonstration
| In February 2004, Professor Martin Holman (University of Massachusetts) and his students from the Summer Puppet Training Program in Shiga, Japan gave an introduction to the traditional Japanese puppet theater, a hands-on demonstration, and a performance of highlights from two puppet plays, Sambaso and Keisei Awa no Naruto. |  |
Japanese Drumming Workshops and Exhibition by Burlington Taiko
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In Spring 2004, Williams welcomed the Burlington Taiko Japanese drumming troupe for a special hands-on workshop on Japanese drumming and a public concert that attracted over three hundred enthusiastic spectators. Based in nearby Burlington, VT, the group was formed in 1987 and performs dozens of concerts and workshops every year at theaters, schools and colleges all over the country, as well as in Japan. Using instruments that range from small hand drums to the enormous bass taiko, the performance combined resounding rhythms with dramatic visual and physical effects.
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Theater of Yugen Noh Performance
The Theater of Yugen , a California-based group that specializes in traditional and contemporary renditions of Noh and Kyogen theater, performed at Williams in September 2002. They performed a Kyogen Comedy, "Bo Shibari" (trans: "Tied to a Pole") in English, as well as William Butler Yeats' Noh-style play, At the Hawk's Well. The company also offered a workshop for interested students.
