"Dance Centerstage" - with Tamasaburo interview

This clip, which is from the 1991 documentary "Dance Centerstage", has an extremely awful English dubbed soundtrack for the interview. Also includes footage of the dance Dojoji (The Dojo Temple) with Kataoka Takao (now Nizaemon).

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[tiffenakou]

heatherleaves, you can ask your local library to do an inter-library loan perhaps? Many public libraries seem to carry this tape.

[Kievest]

Dance is the art of illustion. Tomasaburo

is the grand wizard of its mysterious

alchemy. Fascinating hands. Thank you

for showing dance's power in the hands

of a master.

[Joneses65]

one interesting fact...he seems so graceful and whatnot because he uses a disability to his advantage...he has a bad leg...and that allows his actions to not be to robust...absoloutly amazing

[migencluz]

@Bootlegization nope... he's 60 (61 actually)..

[Bootlegization]

He is 40? he look like he is in his 20s.

[hotarub]

Thank you so much!

Dojyoji is the masterpiece of Onnagata dance, expressing every aspect of woman's heart.

The original Kyokanoko-musume-dojyoji 京鹿子娘道成寺 is danced by one Onnagata. There are a couple of versions, such as Ninin-doujyoji 二人道成寺 by two Onnagata. This is Meoto-doujyoji　男女道成寺 by a man and an Onnagata.

[hayathologist]

The duet dance is so breathtakingly nice .

Bravo to Tamasaburo and Takao!

[mizpeth]

he's liquid dancing at 4:25

[Persphonefallen]

I did not know that, it would have killed his line of work in the west. He is my favorite kabuki dancer.

[lovelyirene2001]

彼は今までで最も偉大な歌舞伎役者です!

[birdonet]

La expresión del feminismo de Tamasaburo es teatral, no vital, una mujer no interpretaría, sería. This is a great diference.