Japanese kabuki actor Nakamura Kotaro VI is on a personal crusade to promote the heritage-rich Japanese theatrical art form of “kabuki.”
Kabuki is the oldest theater artefact of Japan that has been performed and preserved by the Japanese people.
With the threat of modern art and the popular form of entertainment, though, kabuki as a performing art has to be promoted not only in Japan but worldwide as well.
It has to maintain its beauty and relevance.
This is precisely the purpose of Nakamura in going to the Philippines recently.
Kotaro, a sixth-generation kabuki actor, met with select Philippine movie press to announce his intention of popularizing kabuki among Filipinos, especially among the youth sector.
Nakamura said that his initial visit to the country will be followed by a greater number of lectures and performances.
“We would like to introduce Japanese kabuki to a new audience so I decided that the Philippines, given your own rich tradition in art and culture, would be an ideal stage to promote our traditional theater,” Kotaro said through an interpreter in a press conference organized by KG Management, Inc.
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