PRESENTERS FOR THE WORKSHOP
Allen Hockley
Associate Professor Dartmouth College
Asian
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1995
M.A. University of British Columbia
B.A. University of Victoria
Special Interests
Japanese Art; Print Culture/Ukiyo-e; Photography
Selected Publications
•Public Spectacles and Personal Pleasures: Four Centuries of Japanese Prints From a Cincinnati Collection, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Museum of Art, 2006.
•“Chikanobu’s Warrior Prints: New Heroes for a New Japan,” Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints, Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2006: 109-115.
•“Expectation and Authenticity in Meiji Tourist Photography,” Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art, edited by Ellen P. Conant, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006: 114-132.
•The Zenning of Shikô Munakata,” Impressions, (2004, no 26): 77-87.
•“First Encounters – Emerging Stereotypes: Westerners and Geisha in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Peabody Essex Museum, Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile, New York: George Braziller, (2004): 51-65.
•"Packaged Tours: Photo Albums and Their Implications for the Study of Early Japanese Photography,” Reflecting Truth: Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japan, edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama, Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing (2004): 66-85.
•The Prints of Isoda Koryûsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth Century Japan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
•Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection, Greensboro, N.C.: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, 2002.
•“Cameras, Photographs, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints,” Impressions, no. 23 (2001): 42-63.
•“Shunga: Function, Context, Methodology,” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 55, no. 2, (Summer 2000): 257-269.
An interactive session that will provide overview exploring underlying foundations of Nohgaku (accomplished entertainment) for contemporary application. Often described as the art of performance, Nohgaku refers to the classical Japanese theatre forms of Noh (Drama) and Kyogen (Comedy). The inherent principles are time-tested, unique and come together to create a refined and powerful stage aesthetic.
A graduate of Bard College, Jubilith is one of the Artistic Directors of Theatre of Yugen and has been with the company, and a student of Yuriko Doi, since 1993. She has also studied Noh with Richard Emmert and Akira Matsui (Kita school). While under a Japan Foundation Fellowship in Tokyo, she continued training with Richard Emmert and had the honor of studying with Kanze School Noh master Shiro Nomura, Kyogen master Yukio Ishida (Izumi school) and Kotsuzumi Noh drum with Mitsuo Kama (Ko school.)
With Theatre of Yugen she has performed in Janine Beichman's Drifting Fires; the modern Noh play, The Well of Ignorance (or Down the Dark Well) by Dr. Tomio Tada; a Noh adaptation of William Butler Yeats' Purgatory; in several productions of Noh Christmas Carol; September 2001 in Erik Ehn's Crazy Horse; September 2005 for the Japan-US tour of The Moon of the Scarlet Plums; and a variety of roles in the company's repertoire of Kyogen comedies.
Since the spring of 2002 she has worked collectively with Theatre of Yugen's Joint Artistic team to create the original experimental pieces The Clay Play (2002), Norton, I (2003), the acclaimed Frankenstein (2003, 2003), toured to Japan in Moon of the Scarlet Plums (2005), adapted and directed The Old Man and The Sea (2005), ruled the stage as the Duchess in Don Q (2006), and was a core actor in last summer’s all-day theatre event The Cycle Plays.
Other noteworthy roles are the Old Man in the collaboration between Theatre of Yugen and Theatre Nohgaku, At the Hawk's Well National Tour 2002, Cecelia in Smartmouth Theater's production of Erik Ehn's Tailings; Mina in Stephen Dietz' Dracula performed with the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; the role of the Ghost in Woman's Will production of Hamlet (the melancholy dame), and Portia in their Merchant of Venice. Jubilith has taught Theatre of Yugen's Winter Training Session since 2003 and assisted Richard Emmert in his American based Noh Training Project. She has also been an Artist in Residence at San Francisco's School of the Arts since 1998.
Jubilith manages Theatre of Yugen's repertoire touring and educational outreach.