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Yass Hakoshima : mime performance and demonstration.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hakoshima, Yass--Interviews.
- Hakoshima, Yass.
- Acting teachers--United States.
- Acting teachers.
- Mime.
- Theater--United States--Interviews.
- Theater.
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- "Yass Hakoshima, Japanese-born mime artist-teacher, performs several mime pieces and explains some mime techniques. With Renata Vouet, mime's assistant. Performance pieces include an eagle which is shot but is determined to fly again, a dictator suppressing mass revolt, a man searching in vain for a woman, a parable of Buddhism told through the image of climbing on a spider web. In a demonstration of technique Hakoshima shows how to walk while standing still, how to create the illusion of walls by pretending to push against them, pulling a rope, isolating different body parts, etc. He also discusses how the Japanese culture and theater have influenced his own style of mime. 1971."
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Jun. 20, 2011).
- Previously published as DVD.
- Originally recorded in 1971.
- OCLC:
- 747801276
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