Monday, September 01, 2008

Saotome Taichi

Saotome Taichi, a young Japanese man, is a superb dancer and actor and 'Onnagata Geisha'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taichi_Saotome

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15004725

He has the ability to be convincingly feminine, or masculine -- or spectral as in Syabake or a more traditional Japanese dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58C6tBt0CP0

or in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7xhEP0iXs

A sort of review of Syabake by 'sleepycat':
http://sleepycat-is-bored.blogspot.com/2007/11/syabake.html

http://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/topictexts/faq/faq_onnagata.html

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