What are some famous Japanese dances?

Japanese dances include folk dances (mainly Bon-odori - a group dance performed mainly at festivals and festivals in conjunction with Japanese folk songs, often in four beats, with simple movements repeated over and over again. Most of the dances show scenes of farming, fishing, and hunting.) Matsuri Odori (Shinto dances - dances performed at the time of a festival by a clergyman. It expresses the worship and sacrifice to natural deities). , Noh dance and rant.

The Noh Dance is a slow-paced dance that creates stage tension and atmosphere with extremely slow dance movements, which seems simple but in fact every movement requires full use of muscles, and every time a 30-minute dance comes down, the performers are wet with sweat and heavy clothes. Even now, the best performers of Noh dance are often 7.80 years old artists, in Japan is known as the human national treasure.

Unlike noh dances, which require a lot of detail, kyogen is an intense dance form with some room for personal expression and intense movements to go along with the chanting. It is also a more watchable form of expression for the viewer. Nomura Mansai, who plays the role of the yin and yang, is the heir to the Nomura family, the Japanese family of rakugo.

A large part of the better-known Kabuki performances evolved from Noh and kyogen, a more popular form of performance. The most famous of these dances would be the Sakado family, known for their female forms. The current head of the family, Sakado Fujishiro.

Similarly, the Zu-mai and other dances performed by geisha and maiko evolved from folk dances, only more performative.