Tag: japanese dancer

Sadayakko – Sada Yacco

Sadayakko or Sada Yacco as Orieko (Ophelia), 1903 | src wikimedia commons
Sadayakko or Sada Yacco (1871-1946) as Orieko or Orié (Ophelia) in Hamlet, 1903 | src wikimedia commons

Sadayakko (貞奴), also Sada Yacco, was the stage name of the first Japanese actress and dancer, derived from a combination of her real name, Sada Koyama, and her geisha name, Yakko.

Sada Yacco dans le rôle d'Oriye, l'Ophélie japonaise: scène de la folie. | src Flickr
Sada Yacco dans le rôle d’Oriye, l’Ophélie japonaise: scène de la folie. | src Flickr
Sada Yacco, 1902. © Futaba Museum 二葉館 | src futabakan.jp
Sada Yacco, 1902. © Futaba Museum [ 二葉館 ], former residence of Sadayakko Kawakami. | src futabakan.jp

No country without Tillergirls

Japanische «Girl-Kultur». Tanzgirls in eine Revue in Tokio. | Japanese «Girl-Culture». Dance girls in a revue in Tokyo. Published in UHU magazine, Heft 9, June 1926. | src UHU ~ Illustrierte Presse

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.

/ src Columbia University in the City of New York