Teaching Personality With Gracefulness: The Transmission of Japanese Cultural Values Through Japanese Dance Theatre

By Barbara Sellers-Young

This book includes both a description and a discussion of the methods used by Kanriye Fujima, a member of the Fujima school of Japan, to teach Nihon Buyon to primarily Japanese-Americans. Sellers-Young discusses Fujima's life as a teacher in three Pacific Northwest communities, providing an explanation of her teaching processes and contexts of performances.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819190152
• ISBN13: 9780819190154
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"