Bedhaya Hagoromo is a combination of two classical artforms: the Javanese Bedhaya dance and Japanese Noh dance-theatre. Formulation of the work was formed when Didik found a similar story in these two classical artforms, the story of Jaka Tarub.
Richard Emmert is professor of Asian Performance at Musashino University and a certified Kita school noh instructor. Born in the USA, he has studied, taught and performed classical noh drama in Japan since 1973, and led a Noh Training Project in Bloomsburg (US) for 20 years. Emmert has led noh performance projects around the world and composed/directed/performed in eleven English noh plays, including Jannette Cheong’s Pagoda (2009, 2011). He is founder and artistic director of Theatre Nohgaku.
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