Events

Noh Theatre: A Lecture and Performance with Mayo Miwa

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Location: The Aula (Ely Hall)

Professional Noh artist Mayo Miwa introduces Japanese Noh theatre—one of Japan’s oldest surviving performing arts traditions—in a lecture and live performance. Noh combines stylized movement, chanting, music, and elaborate masks and costumes to tell stories. The performance offers Vassar students a chance to experience how these elements work together onstage.

Sponsored by the Department of Chinese and Japanese and the Asian Studies Program, with support from the Carolyn Grant ’36 Endowment Fund.

Campus community only, please.

Woodblock print of a Noh figure wearing a horned mask and layered robes patterned with triangles, birds, and clouds.
A scene from Aoi no Ue (Lady Aoi), from Tsukioka Kōgyo’s woodblock print series Nōgaku Hyakuban (One Hundred Noh Plays).