Kabuki is a traditional Japanese dance-drama form of theater that originated in the 17th century. It features elaborate costumes, dramatic makeup, and extravagant wigs to convey characters and their emotions to audiences. The theater relies heavily on music to set the mood and cue actors. Kabuki makeup uses specific colors and lines on the face to symbolize traits like passion and villainy. Costumes are also colorful and elaborate. Kabuki continues to influence other art forms and entertain audiences today.

1. Kabuki
Theater
Alyssa DeFonte, Phil
Giannino, Imani Suber,
Valerie Baglay

2. What is
Kabuki?

3. It’s not Shapoopi, it’s KABUKI!

4. Kabuki Theater
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Kabuki is a
Japanese dance
and drama play
involving elaborate
costumes, eyecatching makeup,
and outrageous
wigs to convey the
audience.
Known as “the art of
singing and
dancing”

5. History
 Created
around the year 1600 by
a woman named Okuni who
preformed alone on riverbanks.
Then her audience grew rapidly.
 Still preformed today, Kabuki
continues to be a form of
entertainment enjoyed by many.

6. Anatomy of Kabuki
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Kabuki theaters relied on the
stages, plots, and music.
Music was used to set the mood
of the play and it also helped
emphasize important points in the
plays.
The actors were trained to take
their cues not from a stage
director but from the music so
listening to the music allowed
them know when it was their turn
to take the stage.

7. Concepts
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Sergei Eisenstein
discusses how Kabuki is
related to cinema
through the usage of
conveying emotions.
Although this
elaborate art dose not
use dialogue, they do
have elaborate
makeup which
explains their emotions
during the play as well
as their singing
performance.

8. Makeup
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Kabuki Theater is known for the style
of its drama and for the elaborate
makeup worn by some of its
performers.
Makeup helps provide an element of
style that is easily recognizable.

9. Application Process
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How makeup is applied:
-rice powder is used to create
the white base for the
characteristic stage makeup
-Kumadori: helps enhances
and exaggerates facial lines
to produce dramatic animal
or supernatural masks.
-Based on the meaning on
the colors on the next slide,
you can go about painting it
however you want for the
character

10.  When
makeup is applied, colors and lines help
suggest character.
 Red
lines are used to indicate passion, heroism,
righteousness and other positive traits.
 Black or Blue indicates villain, jealously, and other
negative traits
 Green lines indicate supernatural
 Purple lines indicate nobility

11. Costumes
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Costumes tend to be extravagant, colorful
and flamboyant
costumes are unique and different
Usually made of silk and embroidered
4 main parts of a dress is: outer clothing, inner
clothing, lower garments, and headdresses

12. Kabuki Examples
 Drag
Queens
 “Ru Pauls Drag Race”

13. Examples
 http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/98483
0/meet-the-queens-giagunn.jhtml#id=1718643
 The
hit comedy TV show, “Everybody
Loves Raymond”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2lY
4QDWNE

14. Haiku
 Poetry
 5,
7, 5 syllables
 Bright
stars in the sky
Side by side with the moonlight
What a lovely sight!

15. Refrences
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"Edutainment Kabuki Theater." Kabuki Theater.
N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
"Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Kabuki
Theater." Japanese Culture - Entertainment Kabuki Theater. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2014.
"Kabuki." Kabuki. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Mar. 2014.
"The Story behind the Faces." The Story behind the
Faces. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2014.
LogoTV.com/Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 6/Meet
the Queens
Youtube.com/Everybody Loves Raymond-Frank’s
Tribute