Teatro Kabuki: das origens à contemporaneidade

Abstract

This paper aims at studying the kabuki genre, starting with a historical overview and then commenting on some recent performances like actor Kirk Nishikawa Dixon’s in the short film “The Lion” and the genre called chôkabuki (which literally means “super kabuki”), presenting Konjaku Hana Kurabe Senbonzakura (“The Feast of a Thousand Cherry Trees of Yesterday and Today”), with Shido Nakamura and vocaloid Hatsune Miku, one of the biggest pop icons of our time in Japan. We write about the adaptability of kabuki and the features that remained in the midst of so many changes: the actor’s role and relationship with the public, the hidden touch of transgression and constant innovation, supporting kabuki as a popular theater from its beginning to present time.