Behind the Mask

By Wei Ger Teo | May 23, 2020

In 1960, noh actor and mask carver Udaka Michishige was the last to be taken as an uchi-deshi, or live-in apprentice, into the home of KongŨ Iwao II, the head of the KongŨ School.

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Creating Space for Artistic Expression: Reflecting on Kyoto Experiment 2019

By Codi Hauka | November 29, 2019

Last month marked the 10th edition of Kyoto Experiment (KEX), an annual International Performing Arts Festival that presented avant-garde works by eleven feature artists who represented six regions of the world, running from Oct. 5-27. This yearā€™s theme, Ɖchos-monde: The Age of Ecology, explored the subtleties and complexities of our subjective relationship with nature to…

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