GIF with various images by Alvin Langdon Coburn of Japanese dancer Michio Ito
rehearsing
as ‘The Hawk’ in
William Butler Yeats’ half Celtic half Japanese Noh play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916
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From the exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation). Its goal is to examine how the
uniquely
highly stylized ancient
Japanese art form of Noh has shaped art outside of Japan in multiple mediums throughout the twentieth century.
un regard oblique 