Experience Traditional Japanese Dance with Ume Nakamura

Name: Experience Traditional Japanese Dance with Ume Nakamura
Start: 2025-01-24T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-24T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Theatre of Yugen’s NOHSpace

Jan 24 2025, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

$25

Theatre of Yugen’s NOHSpace

2840 Mariposa St
San Francisco, CA 94110 United States
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NIHONBUYO, literally “Japanese dance,” is an elegant style of classical Japanese dance that defies easy definition. Though its influences include traditional performing art forms such as kabuki, Noh, kyōgen, and bunraku, all of which were historically exclusive to male performers, NIHONBUYO stands apart as a style that is also traditionally performed by women. Blending graceful dance with subtle pantomimic technique, NIHONBUYO is a form of storytelling that conjures emotion and atmosphere through the simple power of movement.

Join us for an evening of live performance and a Q&A-style fireside chat with professional NIHONBUYO dancer Ume Nakamura as she showcases a craft honed by generations of esteemed performers before her. This event will be a valuable opportunity to learn about classical Japanese dance and theatre from a seasoned performer whose family has practiced and taught traditional performing arts for centuries, as well as to appreciate the art of the dance itself in all its traditional and modern iterations.

Don’t know anything about NIHONBUYO? No worries! Let’s watch the video NIHONBUYO 101 and discover the elegance, beauty and grace!

Event Details

Dates & Times:
1) Friday, January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM PST
2) Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM PST
*Doors Open at 5:30 PM

Venue:
Theatre of Yugen’s NOHSpace | 2840 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Agenda:

5:30-6:00 Doors Open
6:00-6:05 Opening Remarks – Steve Pollock | President, Japan Society of Northern California & Housekeeping – Tiger Zhou | Theatre of Yugen
6:05-6:12 Introducing Traditional Japanese Dance, Mitate – Ume Nakamura & Moderated by Michi Kaifu | CEO, Enotech Consulting & Co-Chair, Programming Committee of Japan Society of Northern California
6:12-6:25 Performance – Yashiki Musume（屋敷娘）
6:25-6:30 Introducing Traditional Japanese Dance & Comprehensive Arts
6:30-6:45 Performance – Tama Usagi (玉兎・たまうさぎ) & Surprise Performance!
6:45-7:10 Fireside Chat with Q&A – Ume Nakamura & Michi Kaifu
7:10-7:30 Networking

Price:
$25

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Our Amazing Performer

中村梅 | Ume Nakamura

Ume Nakamura is a classical Japanese dancer and dance teacher who specializes in traditional Japanese dance (nihonbuyō). She was born to a prestigious performing arts family in Tokyo, Japan, where she studied under her grandfather, kabuki actor Shikan Nakamura VII, and her mother Umeya Nakamura, who serves as the eighth headmaster of the Nakamura School of Japanese Traditional Dance. As a member of the Japanese Traditional Dance Association, she has performed at the National Theatre of Japan and teaches dance to performers in film and stage productions.

Our Amazing Moderator

Michi Kaifu | CEO, Enotech Consulting & Co-Chair, Programming Committee of Japan Society of Northern California

Kabuki fan, management consultant in IT industry, visiting professor of Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan, and member of the Board of Japan Society of Northern California. Through three books, articles and speech engagements, widely considered one of the thought leaders in technology industry in Japan. Michi just published a new book : “Silicon Valley’s Money Making (シリコンバレーの金儲け)”