Tokyo Photo Gallery

Tokyo is conducting a project on traditional performing arts for kids, which gives elementary school children to high school students the opportunity to experience the pleasure and attractiveness of traditional Japanese performing arts and to demonstrate what they have learned by giving a performance at a major theater. The project covers three genres; Noh play, Japanese classical dance, and koto music. Approximately 300 participating children have been divided into lesson venue groups since last summer and are receiving rigorous lessons from leading performers, working towards their performance scheduled for this March.
Photo: Elementary school children receiving one-on-one kyogen lessons on stage on January 13 (Suginami Nohgakudo).