Another speciality of the Kabuki stage is a footbridge (hanamichi) that extends into the audience.
Kabuki plays are about historical events and moral conflict in relationships of the heart.
My boss at CNET made the idea of doing an obituary an annual Kabuki ritual.
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In Japan, for example, Kabuki theater is dominated by acting families whose thespian pedigree goes back centuries.
In his DNA you'll find Japanese Kabuki theatre, British rock and roll, and late 1960s dystopian sci-fi.
The consternation over Hagel's confirmation has been "kabuki theater, " said David Rothkopf, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.
Today, Kabuki is the most popular of the traditional styles of Japanese drama.
The deregulation kabuki drama also includes the "break-up" of Japan's telecommunications giant, NTT.
This kabuki ritual is disguising a battle that is under way between the 19 top banks, their shareholders and the government.
The Kabuki stage is equipped with several gadgets, such as revolving stages and trapdoors through which the actors can appear and disappear.
Kabuki is a Japanese traditional theatre form, which originated in the Edo period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was particularly popular among townspeople.
Originally, both men and women acted in Kabuki plays, but eventually only male actors performed the plays: a tradition that has remained to the present day.
It is to avoid such oversight that companies usually leave room for the price to rise in their own Kabuki-dance negotiations to show it was an arms-length transaction.
After 1868, when Japan opened to Western influence, actors strove to heighten the reputation of Kabuki among the upper classes and to adapt the traditional styles to modern tastes.
Lawyers bringing derivative suits, as opposed to shareholder class actions on behalf of investors who suffered losses, must go through a bit of a Kabuki dance before they get their money.
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But sadly there were no girls with dresses on-fire, no waitresses with Kabuki makeup, no men with the strange kind of facial hair Wes Bentley as Seneca, the game master, sports in the movie.
"Kaburias" by Nacho Duato (a Kabuki-influenced work to Leo Brouwer's flamencoesque music) showed Mr. Hallberg bare-chested and aswirl, to little clear effect, in a ruffle-hemmed black skirt that was initially arranged to look like gaucho pants.
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Important characteristics of Kabuki theatre include its particular music, costumes, stage devices and props as well as specific plays, language and acting styles, such as the mie, in which the actor holds a characteristic pose to establish his character.
She then leads us to the Sundance Kabuki Theatre - a cinema with a film festival vibe, showing independent films as well as blockbusters, where she tucks into a cocktail as she sits down to watch a film.
While the designer himself favors chunky, in-your-face styles such as a ring of his that features a Japanese Kabuki mask, he says such conversation pieces work best for weekends and may not be the best idea for most office ensembles.
In the Kabuki tradition of men playing female characters, Mr. Sawamura's gestural dances, full of delicate facial expressions and artful costume manipulation, marvelously capture the wiles of the serpent-demon maiden hoping to enter the temple that figures in the classic play.
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